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Good news is so rare these days, you don’t quite know how to take it. You want to celebrate, but a rival instinct tells you it’ll be pulled back somehow, the same feeling you get when your team scores a late.

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.