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David Sacks has spent the past few days exactly where his critics and admirers now expect him to be: at the center of the fight over who controls the future of artificial intelligence and how much he personally stands to gain from it. Politico reports that on Capitol Hill, Republican and industry lobbyists are increasingly frustrated that Sacks, now widely known as Trump’s AI czar, helped derail a fragile bipartisan deal on federal AI legislation by urging Republicans to ram sweeping state-law preemption through the defense bill instead, only to fall back on an aggressive executive order strategy when that collapsed. According to legal analyses from major law firms, that executive order, recently signed by President Trump with Sacks at his side, directs the Justice Department to challenge strict state AI laws in court and effectively dares blue states to sue, a move with long-term implications for his legacy as the architect of a national AI framework.

At the same time, NPR and the New York Times have fueled a growing ethics controversy over Sacks’s vast AI and crypto investments through his firm Craft Ventures, reporting that he received unusually broad ethics waivers that let him keep hundreds of tech stakes while shaping federal AI and digital-asset policy. Ethics experts quoted by NPR call those waivers “like a presidential pardon in advance,” while Sacks, speaking not to reporters but on his own All-In podcast, insists he has divested “hundreds of millions” at great personal cost and that regulators have cleared him of conflicts. Fortune’s business newsletter notes that Silicon Valley titans such as Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Marc Benioff have rushed to his defense, setting up a defining biographical tension: is David Sacks the indispensable expert in Washington, or the ultimate conflicted insider.

On television, Sacks has stayed on offense. CNBC’s Closing Bell Overtime recently featured him defending the executive order and arguing that America needs one national AI rulebook to compete with China, while Fox Business highlighted him blasting blue states for what he calls “woke” AI rules that force developers to bolt a DEI layer onto their models. Benzinga reports that on X, he has dismissed mass AI job-loss fears as a “hoax,” citing Vanguard data that high-AI roles are currently leading wage and hiring growth, aligning him squarely with the Trump administration’s pro-acceleration message.

There are more social and socialite whispers too: crypto industry outlets are still buzzing about Sacks as host of Washington’s first “Crypto Ball,” a glittering symbol of how a onetime PayPal Mafia operator turned venture capitalist has become the undisputed power broker where AI, money, and politics collide. Speculation that he could parlay this into a more formal cabinet-level role remains just that speculation; what is verifiable is that he continues to co-host All-In, run Craft Ventures, shape White House tech strategy, and wage a public pressure campaign against media and regulators he thinks stand in the way of the future.

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