“The single most consequential decision of his presidency may turn out to be putting the full weight of the American state behind the AI hyperscalers and working overtime to block state and federal efforts to restrain them.”
– Ben Smith
In Semafor, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith argues AI is becoming a pivotal issue in U.S. politics. He suggests President Trump is drawn by the scale of AI projects, evidenced by massive invesments in data centres for frontier model-makers such as OpenAI.
View/Trump is betting his presidency on AI. Can he sell it? | SEMAFOR | December 14, 2025 | by Ben Smith