Trump announces new tech policy picks for his second term

In a brace of Truth Social posts connected Sunday, Donald Trump announced a acceptable of picks for his administration’s tech argumentation squad that volition study to David Sacks, Trump’s “AI and crypto czar.” The picks see Michael Kratsios, who volition pb the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) if confirmed by the Senate.

Kratsios, who served successful Trump’s archetypal word arsenic the White House main exertion officer, besides concisely held an acting undersecretary relation astatine the Department of Defense adjacent the extremity of the term. He aboriginal became a managing manager astatine Scale AI and has been helping pb Trump’s tech argumentation modulation team.

The President-elect besides picked his erstwhile lawman CTO, Dr. Lynne Parker, arsenic Executive Director of the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology. Directing the Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets (AKA the “Crypto Council”) volition beryllium erstwhile assemblage shot subordinate and unsuccessful Republican legislature campaigner Bo Hines. Advising Trump connected AI argumentation arsenic portion of the OSTP volition beryllium Sriram Krishnan, who has extended Silicon Valley experience, with roles astatine Andreessen Horowitz, X, Meta, and Snap.

Sacks is adjacent with Elon Musk, who Trump has charged with gutting the US government arsenic portion of the not-yet-established Department of Government Efficiency — and who precocious helped send Congress into chaos by posting relentlessly to halt a US spending bill.