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They're just kind of pushing these ideas and you wouldn't know.

To me, this is just a really natural fit with the way that, and there also happen to be the biggest corporate donors so far in this election cycle, which the New York Times had reported.

So I, yeah, it's just a perfect synergy, I guess.

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Yeah, I think the interest for regular people, for the broader audience, is the fact that it's representative of this battle that we're seeing play out with, you know, recently when Trump was about to sign this executive order on AI and

Um, and then David Sachs, who is, who was the former White House and crypto czar and Sri Ram's boss in the White House, he intervened, um, Musk intervened, um, you know, a number of tech CEOs.

So Sachs left recently.

Sri Ram is, is leaving at the end of the month.

And I think we're seeing that in this, in this power vacuum, other members of the Trump administration, in particular, Susie Wiles and, um,

and Treasury Secretary Scott Bassett are both having a lot more influence and pushing back against the

the kind of policy stance that the Trump administration had taken on the AI market so far, which was, you know, total support, you know, kind of deferring to the industry itself, to the representatives for the industry itself, you know, eagerness to help work with the data center build out that they want to ensure that, you know, one of the first actions Trump did in office was to repeal the Biden campaign.