The bill for tech’s Trump 2.0 appeasement may be coming due

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Three days after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tried to have it both ways. “I’m not going to agree with him on everything,” Altman tweeted of the new president. “[B]ut I think he will be incredible for the country in many ways!”

The gist of Altman’s sentiment—lavish praise for Trump, tempered with a polite disclaimer that it wasn’t a blanket endorsement—was far closer to a love letter than a critique.