David Sacks is no longer the White House AI and Crypto Czar
David Sacks, the venture capitalist and tech billionaire who’d become Silicon Valley’s primary advocate inside the White House and a key architect of its aggressive AI policy initiatives, revealed on Thursday that he was no longer a special government employee — and therefore no longer President Donald Trump’s Special Advisor on AI and Crypto. Earlier this week, the White House had announced several new appointments to the advisory council, including other tech executives like Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Jensen Huang, and Sergey Brin. His attempt to implement a blanket ban on AI state laws, both in Congress and then by executive order, alienated Republican governors and MAGA populists instead, and made several other potential policy wins politically toxic.