Trump makes it clear his power is becoming entwined with AI

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I sit under yellowing leaves in New York. Today in tech, we’re discussing technocracy. Trump entwines his power with AI Donald Trump made a series of moves over the past week that make it clear his power is becoming synonymous with artificial intelligence. The new tight alliances between the White House, the Pentagon, US intelligence agencies and AI companies loom ominously over governments and companies, particularly in Europe,…

By the Truvace deskOctober 15, 20261 min read1 sourceJournalismTRV-2026-1445· cite & verify

Trump makes it clear his power is becoming entwined with AI

In brief

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I sit under yellowing leaves in New York.

Trump entwines his power with AI Donald Trump made a series of moves over the past week that make it clear his power is becoming synonymous with artificial intelligence. The new tight alliances between the White House, the Pentagon, US intelligence agencies and AI companies loom ominously over governments and companies, particularly in Europe, that rely on American AI.

Main points

Hello, and welcome to TechScape.
I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I sit under yellowing leaves in New York.
Today in tech, we’re discussing technocracy.

The problem

This week in AI OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’ Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted Google rolls out new Gemini AI model but restricts access over safety concerns California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking The AI industry is booming.

The rundown

Today in tech, we’re discussing technocracy. Trump entwines his power with AI Donald Trump made a series of moves over the past week that make it clear his power is becoming synonymous with artificial intelligence.