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Should Silicon Valley celebrate Trump's AI plans?

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The big AI companies seem to be in a celebratory mood after President Donald Trump unveiled his AI Action Plan — not surprising, perhaps, since the plan was shaped by Trump's Silicon Valley allies. Today, on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, and Anthony Ha look at how the Trump administration plans to reshape the AI landscape, making it harder for environmental regulators to block data center construction, for state governments to oversee AI development and safety, and for tech companies to develop what conservatives see as "woke" AI. Listen to the full episode to hear more about this week's startup and tech news, including: Tesla's fancy new Hollywood diner, featuring Superchargers, a drive-in movie theater, and (supposedly) weird hot dogs. Amazon's acquisition of AI wearable startup Bee and what it might mean for Alexa's future The rapid rise of AI-powered website and app builder Lovable, which recently reached $100 million ARR Figma's plans to raise nearly $1 billion in an IPO, in what looks like a remarkable comeback following a failed acquisition by Adobe Equity will be back for you next week, so don't miss it! Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.  Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today is Friday, July 25th.

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I'm Kirsten Koresk, Transportation Editor at TechCrunch,

0:56.7

and I'm joined by Senior AI Reporter Maxa and Weekend Editor Anthony Ha. Question for you, too.

1:04.5

I'm not sure if you saw, but the Tesla diner and drive-thru opened up in Hollywood. And Anthony,

1:13.4

I know that you're in New York and you probably wouldn't like make a special trip.

1:14.1

But if you were in Hollywood, would you go?

1:17.6

And would you go as a customer or as we are also seeing a protester?

1:26.4

Well, if I was going to go as a protester, I don't know if I would admit it on this podcast.

1:33.3

But I would say that, yeah, in general, I suspect I would not go out of my way to go to the

1:40.2

Tesla diner, both probably because of complicated feelings about Tesla and also because I don't think.

1:47.4

I think in general, you shouldn't go out of your way to go to diners. The whole point of diners is that

1:50.9

they're like there. I would go, so I have been on road trips in Teslas, you know, and obviously

1:56.1

they've got charging stations all over the country. And often they're, once you get out of the

2:00.1

cities, they're in these kind of random, empty locations. And compared to like when you go to a gas

2:06.3

station and you can go, like, use the bathroom, get a cup of coffee. Like, a lot of times you kind of

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