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David Sacks is a South African-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who serves as the White House AI and Crypto Czar in the Trump administration, advising on national policy toward artificial intelligence and digital assets. He began his career as COO of PayPal before founding Yammer, an enterprise social network later acquired by Microsoft, and briefly served as interim CEO of Zenefits. In 2017 he co-founded Craft Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm where he remains a general partner, and he has been an early investor in companies such as Facebook, Uber, SpaceX, Airbnb and Palantir. He is also widely known as a co-host of the All-In podcast alongside Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis and David Friedberg, through which he frequently comments on technology, economic and political issues.

Updated 5 August 2026

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September 2026

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns and warns that frontier AI could pose existential risk Executive move

August 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei comments on AI’s “crisis of trust,” critiques open-weights approaches, and proposes tiered regulation tied to safety testing Policy change

July 2026

Major AI companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind advocate for stricter government AI regulation and pre-release review requirements Policy change

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight large language model Model release

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