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2/3 🧵 Substantively, the article is getting at a real tension: AI firms are building on public infrastructure, public research, public data ecosystems, and public legal protections — but the gains may concentrate hard in a few private companies. Trump’s line about companies “giving back” suggests a policy direction where government doesn’t just regulate AI, but tries to capture some of the upside for citizens. That fits with the broader White House posture of treating AI as strategic national infrastructure, not just another tech sector, as reflected in this official AI national security directive fact sheet.