How to Make Friends and Influence POTUS

Lobbying in U.S. politics has always had a transactional side. But executives must understand the new realities of the current environment — and AI-powered influence peddling.

It’s not hard to like the president when he’s announcing a $500 billion plan to fund your technology startup.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, once a critic of President Donald Trump, recently stood side by side with him to announce Project Stargate, a multicompany effort to shore up America’s edge in artificial intelligence. Shortly thereafter, Altman took to social media platform X to announce, “Watching @potus more carefully recently has really changed my perspective on him. … I’m not going to agree with him on everything, but I think he will be incredible for the country in many ways.”

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