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Trump Brushes Off AI Doomsaying to Safeguard US Lead Over China

Bloomberg Technology Saturday 12 September 2026, 13:00 UTC By Maggie Eastland and Courtney Subramanian 1 min read
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Cybersecurity Trump Brushes Off AI Doomsaying to Safeguard US Lead Over China In June 2024, during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, then-candidate Donald Trump got a glimpse of the technology that would come to define his second presidential term. OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and then-Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap showed the Republican a preview version of the artificial intelligence startup’s Sora image and video-generation tool, an offering that has since been discontinued.

Cybersecurity Trump Brushes Off AI Doomsaying to Safeguard US Lead Over China In June 2024, during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, then-candidate Donald Trump got a glimpse of the technology that would come to define his second presidential term. OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and then-Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap showed the Republican a preview version of the artificial intelligence startup’s Sora image and video-generation tool, an offering that has since been discontinued. Trump and Brockman used it to visualize a golf course on the moon, according to people familiar with the meeting who requested anonymity to describe a private interaction.
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