OpenAI Courts Trump administration as Its Latest Investor

One interesting shift over the past couple of years is that discussions about AI increasingly sound less like discussions about software companies and more like discussions about national infrastructure.

Whether that’s ultimately good or bad, it feels like a meaningful change from where the industry was even three years ago.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759623

In the end, nothing beats pitching directly to the people who own the actual money printer. Why raise another Series when you can just be a line item in the federal budget?