A Gallup survey released on May 13 found that 71 percent of American adults oppose having an AI data center built near where they live, with 48 percent strongly opposed. That number is higher than opposition to nuclear plants. In a country where almost nothing polls at 71 percent, the result was treated as a national signal: the AI infrastructure boom has run into an organic wall of voter resistance. Maybe. But before we accept that framing, it is worth looking carefully at w

New financial disclosures from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show President Donald Trump made at least seven separate purchases of Palantir Technologies stock during March 2026, totaling up to $530,000, before publicly praising the AI defense contractor on Truth Social in a week when its share price was sliding on Iran-related volatility. The records, first reported by CNBC on May 15 and amplified by Yahoo News and Rolling Out, have reignited a debate over presidential

President Donald Trump returned from a two-day state visit to Beijing last week saying he and Chinese President Xi Jinping had opened a conversation about coordinating "guardrails" on artificial intelligence, the clearest signal yet that frontier AI has joined chips, defense systems, and trade as a core front in the U.S.-China relationship. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on the return flight Friday, Trump confirmed the two leaders had discussed "possibly working t