David Sacks
South African-American entrepreneur and investor
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Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering. It is principally responsible for the regulatory frenzy that is damaging the startup ecosystem,
- former Trump administration AI advisor David Sacks posted to X in October 2025, responding to Anthropic’s strategyFox Newsfoxnews.com/politics/tech…
Only President Trump could convene all the leaders of the top companies developing chips, data centers and frontier models for Super Intelligence,
- Mr. Sacks wrote later on social media, adopting Mr. Trump’s term for the technology, an attempt to rebrand it to sound more powerful, yet more under human controlThe New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/09…
The last time we had media-generated panics like this (with Russiagate and Covid), social media companies created ‘trust & safety’ teams to censor conservative and dissident voices,
- Sacks wroteGuardiantheguardian.com/us/news…
I think the starting point for talking about AI regulation is to realize the regulations that we already have,
- said Sacks, who previously served as the White House's former AI and crypto czar until stepping down in MarchABC 7 Newsabc7news.com/story/trump…
We have a highly regulated administrative state, and we already have a lot of laws and regulations that pertain to AI. And we have a lot of administrative agencies that promulgate regulations related to AI,
- Sacks saidABC 7 Newsabc7news.com/story/trump…
Stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission … stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process. … Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic.”
- Sacks’s sneers at the AI leaders were gratuitousForeign Policyforeignpolicy.com/2026/09…
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Tech powerhouse’s regulatory push bears similarities to a notorious Washington strategy
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/politics/tech…Trump happens to be president right at the moment Amodei’s artificial intelligence company Anthropic is emerging as perhaps the preeminent player in that epoch-shaping new world
Newsweeknewsweek.com/doomer/boomer…Trump’s Voluntary A.I. Policing Echoes What Biden Did. But Is It Enough Today?
The New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/09…One could condemn critics of such commitments as cynics…were American history not littered with examples of how corporations willingly and knowingly acted in woefully immoral ways in pursuit of their own interests, and to enrich themselves and their shareholders—usually at the public's expense
Newsweeknewsweek.com/trump/ai…AI fears burst onto Trump-Xi agenda, but challenges abound
The Hillthehill.com/policy/internation…When President Donald Trump sits down with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington this week, the agenda will be crowded
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/opinion/america…Xi prepares China ‘for battle’ as expert warns of grave danger facing US ahead of DC summit
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/media/xi…Apocalyptic warnings about the danger of uncontrolled artificial intelligence are adding new urgency to talks between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping set for next week
The Hillthehill.com/policy/internation…America and China are fighting for the future of AI — chips are the battlefield
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/opinion/america…AI agents acting without oversight 'would rank very high' among Beijing's biggest concerns
Gulf Newsgulfnews.com/technology/ai…Trump announces AI force to be led by ‘high IQ individual’
The Telegraphtelegraph.co.uk/world/news…The move comes just days after he called concerns about artificial intelligence a ‘hoax’
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…Obama rips Trump over AI policy amid ‘doomsday’ warnings
The Hillthehill.com/policy/technology…Former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump's approach to artificial intelligence on Friday, calling for stronger federal regulation as the technology rapidly advances and concerns grow over safety, jobs and human control
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/media/obama…Anthropic shares 3 metrics to help AI companies monitor pace of development
CNBCcnbc.com/2026/09…Trump calls Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during summit, dismisses AI fears as 'hoax'
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/tech/ai…Democrats embraced AI’s growth before Trump came along; now, they want to slow it down
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/politics/democrats…On the way home from a recent trip, Eriech Tapia drove past a sea of dark industrial buildings lining an already jam-packed northern Virginia road: data centers
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…Washington balks at giving AI firms waiver to create safety standard
The Hillthehill.com/policy/technology…After White House artificial intelligence adviser David Sacks got President Trump to scrap a planned executive order in May that would subject AI models to an extended government review, senior administration officials including Scott Bessent and Susie Wiles were caught off guard and unhappy
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…Sacks: Trump cutting through panic over AI
Politicopolitico.com/news/2026…After White House artificial intelligence adviser David Sacks got President Trump to scrap a planned executive order in May that would subject AI models to an extended government review, senior administration officials including Scott Bessent and Susie Wiles were caught off guard and unhappy
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…Poll shows Americans are increasingly alarmed by AI’s ecological footprint
Aljazeeraaljazeera.com/news/2026…Thin black circuit lines branch out from metallic pins around the edges of the chip
Foreign Policyforeignpolicy.com/2026/09…Nvidia's Huang diverges with CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI on AI safety at Dreamforce
CNBCcnbc.com/2026/09…For nearly 90 years, one of mathematics’ most formidable problems resisted some of the finest human minds
ABP Livenews.abplive.com/technology/no…OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in talks to create a standards body as AI fears rise
France 24france24.com/en/technology…Bilal Chughtai has resigned from Google DeepMind, where he worked on AGI safety
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/trending/go…Haigh warns of ‘huge risk’ from AI unless proper safety measures put in place
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/uk…There is an eerie low hum that emanates from data centres, where tens of thousands of chips make trillions of computations a second to help drive the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution
BBCbbc.com/news/articles…Trump interrupts live event to claim AI concerns are ‘hoax’
The Independentindependent.co.uk/tv/news…US President Donald Trump has dismissed fears that AI could wipe out humanity
Gulf Newsgulfnews.com/world/americas…Steve Bannon turns on Trump to team up with Bernie Sanders over AI threat
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…House Republican leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as calls mount for more transparency around artificial intelligence and implementing guardrails around the rapidly developing technology
The Hillthehill.com/video/clips…Beijing bristles at AI executive's 'fearmongering' about China
The Korea Timeskoreatimes.co.kr/world/2026091…NEW YORK -- US stocks ended lower on Monday, pressured by unexpected calls from AI executives for an industry-wide slowdown in AI development
China Dailychinadaily.com.cn/a/202609…Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
TechCrunchtechcrunch.com/2026/09…In response to former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation announcement on X, Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at Capital Research Center in Washington D.C., went viral as he raised questions about whether the resignation was part of a broader network that aims to influence lawmakers and AI policy
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/politics/facebook…Former OpenAI employee: ‘Yes, AI might really kill us all’
CNNcnn.com/2026/09…The AI industry seems to be having its loudest debate yet about whether its technology poses an existential threat to humanity
TechCrunchtechcrunch.com/2026/09…New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate
ABC 7 Newsabc7news.com/post/new…Dario Amodei outlined a plan for companies like his and governments around the world to ensure that increasingly capable AI models remain aligned with the commands and values of responsible people days after two former Anthropic safety researchers publicly aired concerns that the existential threats AI might pose to humanity were receiving too little attention
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/ceo…Trump downplays risk warnings, rejects calls from tech bosses for AI slowdown
Saudi Gazettesaudigazette.com.sa/article/66…Former President Obama reportedly urged House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) to make AI oversight a central tenet of his caucus’s agenda earlier this week
The Hillthehill.com/policy/technology…Sam Altman reveals ‘two ways AI progress could go very badly’ days after backing ‘slowdown’ call
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…Global AI stocks slip on concerns over risks
Financial Timesft.com/content/aa8a1be7…New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/ceo…The AI industry seems to be having its loudest debate yet about whether its technology poses an existential threat to humanity
TechCrunchtechcrunch.com/2026/09…Anthropic CEO likens AI fight with China to Cold War, seeks 'disarmament negotiations'
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/media/anthropic…Anthropic chief executive officer Dario Amodei's call for a slower pace of development in artificial intelligence citing risks in “superintelligent” computer systems received backing from OpenAI boss Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…Threat of AI 'catastrophe any day now' — as tech giants pledge to act
Sky Newsnews.sky.com/story/threat…The AI industry seems to be having its loudest debate yet about whether its technology poses an existential threat to humanity
TechCrunchtechcrunch.com/2026/09…US pushes looser approach to AI regulation, while EU pushes new law
Aljazeeraaljazeera.com/news/2026…With the high-stakes meeting just weeks away and tech tensions escalating, Beijing uses a G20 ministerial forum to advocate collaboration on the emerging technology
South China Morning Postscmp.com/tech/tech…Americans switch to Chinese AI as cheaper models challenge ChatGPT and Claude despite Trump crackdown
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…When Hugging Face's security team sought help from several frontier proprietary models to analyze the attack, those systems declined
China Dailychinadaily.com.cn/a/202607…Nvidia and Palantir urge US not to ban ‘open’ AI models after China scare
Financial Timesft.com/content/3203fc9a…The Trump administration this week staked out a new position that could reshape its approach to AI policy, accusing Chinese companies of stealing U.S. technology even as it defends open AI development
Axiosaxios.com/2026/07…Kimi K3 developer suspends new subscriptions amid compute constraints
The Korea Timeskoreatimes.co.kr/world/2026072…Last week's rise of Chinese model Kimi is reigniting those efforts
Axiosaxios.com/2026/07…Trump administration weighs blocking US access to Chinese AI models: What it means for OpenAI, Anthropic
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…Last week's rise of Chinese model Kimi is reigniting those efforts
Axiosaxios.com/2026/07…The secret Trump administration battle to fight Chinese AI
Axiosaxios.com/2026/07…Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights
Forbes UKforbes.com/sites/viviantoh…Why Silicon Valley Can’t Stop Looking Over Its Shoulder at China
The New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/07…Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights
Forbes UKforbes.com/sites/williampesek…China's Kimi K3 rattles US AI industry
The Manila Timesmanilatimes.net/2026/07…Another powerful new artificial intelligence model from China is taking the U.S. tech industry by surprise
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/chinese…Sacks warns US risks losing AI edge after new Chinese model launch
The Hillthehill.com/newsletters/techno…Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry CEO Is Thinking About AI
The Wall Street Journalwsj.com/tech/ai…In both nuanced and dramatic fashion, the Palantir Technologies chief executive is drawing attention to concerns over the power and insight AI labs derive from their business customers’ data and decision-making—the magic sauce behind what makes a company successful
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/technology/…Chips, theft and a shutdown: The US-China AI race is turning into a geopolitical thriller
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…Anthropic restores its flagship AI after adding protections that satisfied US regulators
Gulf Newsgulfnews.com/technology/claude…Kiwi investors offered a slice of Finn Pulowski’s new AI play
National Business Reviewnbr.co.nz/tech/kiwi…The company, 8090 Labs, closed a $135 million round led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, David Sacks’ Craft Ventures, fellow All-In hosts and “besties” David Friedberg’s The Production Board and Jason Calacanis’ Launch, as well angel investors like Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora and Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo
TechCrunchtechcrunch.com/2026/06…US allows limited access to Anthropic's Mythos AI model after blocking over national security concerns
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…It’s been less than four weeks since Trump signed an executive order rejecting mandatory federal controls on AI, instead asking leading tech companies to submit new models to a voluntary government review before making them widely available
Politicopolitico.com/news/2026…Trump administration asks OpenAI to limit next model release over security concerns
Axiosaxios.com/2026/06…OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 to select users vetted by US government
Financial Timesft.com/content/33a306c2…Trump’s war on Anthropic threatens America’s dominance of AI
WAtodaywatoday.com.au/business/compan…Anisha Sircar is a journalist covering tech, finance and society
Forbes UKforbes.com/sites/anishasircar…Cybersecurity executives urge the Trump administration to ease restrictions on Anthropic AI models
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/trump…Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights
Forbes UKforbes.com/sites/johnwerner…In a first, Anthropic pulls two key AI models after Trump administration intervenes
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights
Forbes UKforbes.com/sites/sandycarter…Meta Bets $115 Million on America’s Skilled Trades Shortage as AI Data Center Boom Accelerates
International Business Timesibtimes.com/meta/bets…Meta is launching America's Workforce Academy, a cost-free program with a $115 million investment to train people for skilled trades
Asianet Newsablenewsable.asianetnews.com/busin…Trump to meet with artificial intelligence companies on government profit share plan as soon as next week
Politicopolitico.com/news/2026…Alison is a senior news reporter covering US politics and legal news
Forbes UKforbes.com/sites/alisondurkee…Trump strikes compromise over AI regulation to satisfy tech giants and MAGA base
Le Mondelemonde.fr/en/pixels…Donald Trump signs watered-down AI vetting order after Maga infighting
Financial Timesft.com/content/e2980d15…White House Reportedly Divided Over AI Rules After Trump Scraps Executive Order On Regulation
International Business Timesibtimes.com/white/house…Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights
Forbes UKforbes.com/sites/danirvine…JD Vance Praises Pope Leo’s Warning About AI, Calls It ‘Profound’
International Business Timesibtimes.com/jd/vance…Pope Leo XIV warns of dangers of AI
Financial Timesft.com/content/404f7500…Trump's description of Taiwan as a ‘good negotiating chip’ with China raises anxieties
Japan Todayjapantoday.com/category/world…President Trump returned from his high-stakes China trip, but uncertainty remains over a potential $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan
CBS Newscbsnews.com/video/uncertainty…Trump wraps up China trip hoping to form stronger bond with the nation
WAtodaywatoday.com.au/world/trump…President Donald Trump has long tried to portray himself as something of a strongman on China, though his tough talk and trade wars are often undercut by his remarkably accommodating nature toward Xi Jinping
CNNcnn.com/2026/05…US-China priority is 'economic relationship': Trump 'heavily prioritising trade and investment'
France 24france24.com/en/us…The United States and China are really the only two countries that matter right now in shaping the A.I. future
The New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/05…Microsoft, Google, xAI security test details deleted from US government website
Reutersreuters.com/legal/litigation…The internal dispute reportedly pits Commerce Department leaders against national security aides in what one person described as a "knife fight" over which part of the government will oversee advanced AI systems
Newsmaxnewsmax.com/politics/trump…