OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Stargate, “the most important project for this era” and promised that all of the new investment his company was making would help cure diseases. Altman was actually prompted by Trump to talk about the medical advances that AI would supposedly figure out.

The new president needs the tech industry more than it needs him.

On his first full day in office, President Donald Trump announced a half-trillion-dollar AI initiative that will begin at Abilene's Lancium campus.