David Sacks, a technology adviser for President Donald Trump and the White House’s former AI and cryptocurrency czar, at the White House in Washington, Sept. 4, 2025. Sacks questioned why tech companies needed government intervention to slow down their AI development when nothing was stopping them from doing just that. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By KALLEY HUANG and MIKE ISAAC It took just a few hours over the weekend for well-known Silicon Valley figures to push back on calls by…
