The Daily Populous Thursday January 23rd, 2025 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by harsh2k5

OpenAI and SoftBank are set to lead the project, with SoftBank taking on Stargate’s financial responsibility, according to Fortune. OpenAI’s chief Sam Altman called the venture the “most important project of this era.” Stargate involves an initial private investment of $100 billion into America’s AI infrastructure, a move that would begin a digital “re-industrialization of the United States,” ushering in “hundreds of thousands of American jobs,” OpenAI said in a statement Tuesday.

But Musk’s decision to reveal the rocky ground beneath Trump’s trophy deal, all while elevating his own know-how, could cause cracks in the powerful duo’s dynamic. In December, tech journalist Kara Swisher argued that the relationship between the two self-imagined strongmen is destined to flame out, just as it did with Trump’s former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon.

“They’re both narcissists, and there can be only one narcissist as head of the country, and that’s Donald Trump who just won the election,” Swisher said. “You know he owes things to Elon, but at some point, you know if he takes too much of the attention—think about Steve Bannon. You remember he was on the cover of that magazine, and how quickly he got out, even though he was critical to Trump’s first campaign and he was right in the middle of the White House, and then he wasn’t.”

jayfeather31 on January 22nd, 2025 at 22:27 UTC »

And so the first domino starts to fall. Agriculture is the bedrock of society. When it gets hit, everyone feels it.

BeowulfsGhost on January 22nd, 2025 at 22:14 UTC »

100% predictable. Wait until the price increases show up at the grocery store as products rot on the vine while they try to find people willing to do hard farm work.

def_indiff on January 22nd, 2025 at 22:08 UTC »

"This was identified early on as a likely outcome" is a sentence I'll be using a lot from now on.