A $500 billion investment plan speaks volumes about Trump’s AI priorities

When president Donald Trump announced a half trillion dollar private sector investment in US artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure on Jan. 21, his second day in office, he basked in the accolades of the three men backing the “Stargate” project: OpenAISam Altman, Masayoshi Son, a Japanese technology mogul, and Larry Ellison of Oracle, a THE firm. He called it the greatest AI investment in history. Then came the kicker. “This is money that would normally have gone to China.”