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The suspect to fired shots at White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday has been identified by the security officials as Cole Tomas Allen from California. Moreover, Allen also contributed $25 to a Democratic Party political action committee in support of Kamala Harris for president in 2024, according to federal campaign finance records. A post under Allen’s name said he was working to develop a new “top-down shooter” combat game set in outer space.
David Sacks, the venture capitalist and tech billionaire who’d become Silicon Valley’s primary advocate inside the White House and a key architect of its aggressive AI policy initiatives, revealed on Thursday that he was no longer a special government employee — and therefore no longer President Donald Trump’s Special Advisor on AI and Crypto. Earlier this week, the White House had announced several new appointments to the advisory council, including other tech executives like Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Jensen Huang, and Sergey Brin. His attempt to implement a blanket ban on AI state laws, both in Congress and then by executive order, alienated Republican governors and MAGA populists instead, and made several other potential policy wins politically toxic.
