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Trump advisor and world’s richest man Elon Musk threw a wrench into the much-ballyhooed gears of Trump’s AI infrastructure plans, insisting that billionaire investors in the project called Stargate — who stood next to Trump in an announcement this week — “don’t actually have the money.”

During a Tuesday afternoon press conference in the White House, President Donald Trump was joined by Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI, and Larry Ellison of Oracle to announce the project. The assembled chief executives all gave credit to the president for making the project possible, even though the project began under former President Joe Biden in 2024, and construction of the massive building in Texas set to house it has already started.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 32 points 12 hours ago

Once again, President Musk sets the record straight. You gotta teach that puppy to heel my dude.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Of course, until Amazon sues him over the rights to the name “Stargate”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

They won't do that. They should, but they won't.

[–] dhork 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, Amazon owns that now?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

They got it when they bought MGM Studios

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I didn't even know they bought MGM, I learned a lot in just a couple comments.

[–] dhork 9 points 11 hours ago
[–] Blue_Morpho 18 points 13 hours ago

Larry Ellison is personally worth $200 Billion. OpenAI is backed by Microsoft with a $3.2 Trillion market cap.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

That would be fun to watch.

[–] iAvicenna 4 points 10 hours ago

jealous of Daddy's new friends?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Translation: "We'd rather have the American people pay us for it with tax dollars so we can raid the treasury."