Axios

President Trump, Big AI go all-in together

President Trump and Big AI have fused their futures around four enormous bets. 

  1. The economic bet: That trillions poured into chips, data centers and power will create a productivity engine powerful enough to fuel a new Industrial Revolution.

  2. The regulation bet: That Washington can clear the runway for an AI takeoff while leaving the companies largely responsible for policing themselves.

  3. The safety bet: That AI can grow vastly more powerful without becoming vastly harder to control.

Wikimedia's CEO on the AI traffic armageddon

Wikipedia is starting to feel the effects of the AI-driven shift in how people find information, with page views falling 8 percent in the latest year, said new Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan. Wikipedia is a crucial source of information for AI models, but those same models increasingly allow people to get Wikipedia-derived information without ever visiting the site—potentially threatening the ecosystem that keeps the online encyclopedia running. While the drop wasn't unexpected, "that doesn't mean that we're sort of starry-eyed about it and not concerned about it," Meehan said.

Meta needs you to believe it cares about privacy

Meta is seeking to make privacy protections a centerpiece of new products including its viral assistant Muse, marking a major shift for a company built on

Sen Thune believes Trump is willing to listen on AI guardrails

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) says President Trump is "not really dug in" against guardra