Brian Barrett

He donated $25 million to MAGA Inc., which is the big Trump super PAC.

There's real money in here in the pro-database side.

There's less on the anti-database side, as these things tend to go.

But it is like across party lines.

The opposition is really interesting.

You've got Democrats, you've got Republicans pushing back in a way that is going to make for some weird coalitions situation.

One thing you mentioned, Alessandra, in this story that I thought was also, I hadn't thought through all the way, but it's not just people who are sort of being obsessed with this AI world and getting caught up in it.

It's also people who've kind of washed out or not been able to get in and who are disappointed and feel like,

They failed in some way.

So there's emotional labor that goes with that, along with the sort of actual literal labor that goes along with, you know, when they're working long hours.

How endemic does that feel at this point?

That's sort of just, you know, the many ways that people have to deal with this.

I'm Brian Barrett, Executive Editor.

Also happening this week, President Trump is headed to China.

He's accompanied by a select number of Silicon Valley's top CEOs.

We'll discuss how their presence could influence conversations between world leaders at a moment when the economic and foreign policy stakes could not be higher for the U.S.

No, that's right.

Yeah, there's been a parade of people.

And also text messages from the, like, I think a fun part about trials and the legal process is that there's the discovery process, which means that you get to read all kinds of emails and texts.

The most fun.