AI CEOs Predictably Suck Up to Trump Amid ‘AI Pause’ Debate
The tradition of tech CEOs bending the knee to Donald Trump continues, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang both taking turns with the shameless flattery. Per MS Now, Trump “met privately… backstage” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Republican midterm convention, at Altman’s request, last Thursday. Also on Monday, The Verge reported, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from Trump on stage at the All-In Podcast’s All-In Summit.
- ▪The tradition of tech CEOs bending the knee to Donald Trump continues, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang both taking turns with the shameless flattery.
- ▪Per MS Now, Trump “met privately… backstage” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Republican midterm convention, at Altman’s request, last Thursday.
- ▪Also on Monday, The Verge reported, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from Trump on stage at the All-In Podcast’s All-In Summit.
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The tradition of tech CEOs bending the knee to Donald Trump continues, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang both taking turns with the shameless flattery. Per MS Now, Trump “met privately… backstage” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Republican midterm convention, at Altman’s request, last Thursday. MS Now’s only other insight into the conversation was that it concerned the growing power of AI—not exactly a shocker—and that it preceded Altman’s endorsement of a blog post this last weekend from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calling for a controlled slowdown of AI…
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