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Donald Trump has arrived in Britain with promises of billions in tech investment. But is this AI boom real growth — or just another bubble? Oren Cass, chief economist at American Compass and editor of The New Conservatives, joins Freddy to discuss whether the Trump administration has been taken over by big tech.
Has Trump been taken over by Big Tech?
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