Ron Wright

Angel investor and entrepreneur. Co-Founder - National Artificial Intelligence Association; Partner in Statesmen Strategy Group and Chairman of JNetDirect Inc.

[POLITICO @politico]

OpenAI says China launched influence campaign to shape US attitudes on AI data centers https://t.co/owoypKAMtA

[National Artificial Intelligence Association @TheNAIAorg]

Today, NAIA CEO Caleb Max (@CalebMaxVA10) and CSO Farhan Chughtai had the opportunity to meet with @FTC Commissioner Mark Meador (@MeadorFTC) to discuss the evolving AI policy landscape, and the importance of protecting consumers, while preserving America’s innovation advantage.

AI is often framed as a consumer-protection challenge, but it is also part of the solution. It helps detect fraud faster, identify emerging threats and strengthen trust in digital markets.

As AI is deployed across the economy, effective policy should be informed by real-world experience from companies building and using these systems responsibly.

NAIA is ready to provide practical insight from America’s AI industry to help protect consumers and strengthen U.S. AI leadership.

Learn more about our work championing American AI: https://t.co/JMDw9ryWOH

[Congressman Jimmy Patronis @PatronisFL]

🚨TOMORROW🚨

For too long, Big Tech has put profits ahead of our children.

It’s time to fight back. Join me and @AGJamesUthmeier for a conversation about protecting kids online, standing up for parents, and taking on Big Tech.

📅 June 9 | 🕕 6:00 PM CT

☎️ 833-305-1733

For more information click the link below:

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[National Artificial Intelligence Association @TheNAIAorg]

🏛️ AI policy momentum is building in Washington, but the window for action is narrowing. In Semafor, our CEO @CalebMaxVA10 notes that Congress still has a narrow path to pass federal AI legislation this year, but the politics remain difficult and time is short.

America can't lead in AI with regulatory uncertainty, fragmented state rules and no clear national framework for responsible deployment. Congress must keep working toward one federal standard that protects Americans, supports innovation and strengthens U.S. competitiveness.

🔗 Read the article: https://t.co/sFOE1S4Wz8

[National Artificial Intelligence Association @TheNAIAorg]

🤖 AI leadership depends on the infrastructure behind it. In AP’s coverage of new U.N. research, our CEO @CalebMaxVA10 notes that America needs clear federal policy, stronger energy capacity and responsible deployment to build and power the systems behind AI.

The U.S. can lead in AI, but leadership requires the infrastructure to scale it responsibly.

🔗 Read the article: https://t.co/kxgllpHc9q

[National Artificial Intelligence Association @TheNAIAorg]

📈 AI infrastructure is critical to U.S. leadership. It depends on skilled workers, and building it supports jobs, local economies and competitiveness. Good to see E&E News by POLITICO include our CEO Caleb Max’s (@CalebMaxVA10) comment today on why data centers matter for American AI leadership.

🔗 Read the article: https://t.co/aGagY2lBTC

Learn more about our work championing American AI: https://t.co/Tr5aAMnDVM

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Weekly reminder: Decline is a choice.

[National Artificial Intelligence Association @TheNAIAorg]

🎙️ As Congress moves from AI debate to AI legislation, Rep. @JayObernolte (R-CA-23) is a leading lawmaker helping shape what comes next. As vice chair of the Congressional @AICaucus and former co-chair of the bipartisan House AI Task Force, Rep. Obernolte has helped lead congressional work on how to govern AI, while keeping the U.S. leading.

In our latest AI on Capitol Hill video, our series speaking with influential lawmakers, he sits down with our CEO @CalebMaxVA10 to discuss data centers powering American AI, the American Leadership in AI Act, the push to turn bipartisan recommendations into legislation, why a national AI framework matters and what’s next from the Congressional AI Caucus.

🎥 Full video coming soon. in the meantime, subscribe to our YouTube: https://t.co/NiqNBkiN0F

🔗 Championing American AI: https://t.co/Tr5aAMnDVM

[National Artificial Intelligence Association @TheNAIAorg]

💡 Trying to make sense of the many state bills, executive orders and federal action shaping the AI industry? Join our next Member Policy Call tomorrow at 9 a.m. ET. We’ll discuss the latest AI policy developments, key issues facing the industry and opportunities for coordination. These calls are closed to press.

🔗 Register: https://t.co/3R9lTzBIMF

[Ron Wright @NxtCent1]

One to watch!

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

There is a lot of noise surrounding the potential US/Iran deal.

Here’s what the rumors are so far:

- Iran has agreed to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium. Iran currently has 400 kg of highly enriched uranium. Enough for 11 nuclear bombs.

- The US would begin a phased unfreezing of Iran’s $6b to $30b in cash.

- The Strait of Hormuz will open up.

- Iran won’t charge a penny for ships to pass through. No $2m toll fee.

- The US agrees to relieve some of the sanctions.

- War ENDS on all fronts with Lebanon.

- US forces near Iran to withdraw.

- 30 to 60 days to finalize the nuclear deal.

If true, that’s a massive victory for the President.

Here are the winners and losers.

Winners:

1. American people. Oil prices will likely fall. Shipping insurance costs drop. Inflation pressure eases.

2. The President

3. Global markets.

4. Stock market.

5. Gulf states. Temporary tension eliminated. I have them as both winners and losers.

6. IRGC gains legitimacy. They’re not Venezuela. Whether anyone likes it or not. Including myself.

7. China is a major winner. The Strait of Hormuz hurt them the most. They can spin this to their people that the deal got done after the President left China.

8. Russia relies on Iran being a bit more stable.

9. NATO nations were starting to worry. They were pansies shivering about having to help the US. (They’re also big losers in my eyes)

Losers:

1. Iranian people. No one knows what the IRGC will do after this deal to their own people. Their media outlets will say they beat America. That message will 100% be pushed. The Iranian people will be under even more scrutiny by the IRGC.

2. Obama’s administration. This sounds like a much stronger deal than Obama’s administration made.

3. Netanyahu. He wanted regime change or collapse for his legacy, but Trump wasn’t on the same page at the end.

4. NATO was exposed. They showed they don’t have America’s back if shit were to hit the fan. Terrible moment for them.

5. Reza Pahlavi. Another year of not being able to help his people become free. This point will lead to more memes by the RP loyalists but it’s the truth.

6. Gulf states. The IRGC still controls a neighbor capable of firing rockets at surrounding Gulf nations.

7. Iranian proxies and non state actors. Hezbollah, Houthis, and Shia militias will not receive the same funding flow if sanctions are removed under limitations tied to the agreement.

8. Defense contractors and war hawks. They wanted this thing to continue so they could land massive contracts. I’m sure they’re not happy.

9. Oil producers benefiting from high prices.

10. Political extremists on both sides. Those who wanted to see the President lose (woke right) and those pushing for nuclear war.

11. Democrats. They desperately needed this to continue heading into the midterms. They will HATE this deal. Don’t worry, they’ll still find a way to blame Trump. But independents won’t fall for the BS. Democrats and the woke right will follow suit, but not reasonable independents who can see through the nonsense.

I predicted this would be done before June 14th. Lots of people pushed back. Obviously, it’s not done yet, and anything can happen, especially when dealing with Iran, but if the President pulls this off, the news outlets, pundits, and influencers will move on to the next issue after they’re done crying nonstop.

The greatest 60 days of positive distractions are around the corner.

President Trump’s birthday: June 14th
US 250 year anniversary: July 4th
World Cup: June 11th to July 19th

The world will move on, and the President can focus on driving results toward the midterms, Cuba, affordability and other issues.

Love him or hate him, he continues to show how fluid his mind is and that he can change his approach depending on whether things do or don’t go his way.

Future Looks Bright.

[Seán Fhirnuin Óg Coinnigh @svkenney]

I feel like I want to donate $10.01 to her legal fund.

[Suburban Virginia Republican Coalition @SUV_GOP]

Maybe read and abide by the Virginia Constitution next time and the judges won’t reject the Democrats effort to hoodwink voters!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.

Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.

Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.

Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.

They conquered until they collapsed.

America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.

And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Almost unprecedented?

It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.

It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.

America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.

That’s not policy.

That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.

You’re being told a story right now.

That America is the villain of history.

You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.

The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.

And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”

Probably right.

China has historically built walls, not fleets.

But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.

We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.

AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.

If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?

The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?

Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.

Billions lifted out of poverty.

All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.

And carries no guarantee of being repeated.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was what it didn’t do after.

[National Artificial Intelligence Association @TheNAIAorg]

🎤 Use code NAIA50 for 50% off registration to US AI Congress, May 27–28 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. NAIA is partnering with US AI Congress, a two-day convening bringing together delegations from all 50 states, international partners, policymakers and industry leaders for discussions on AI policy, infrastructure, cybersecurity, workforce, health care, defense and American competitiveness.

Our CEO @CalebMaxVA10 will speak May 27 during the session "Advancing American Competitiveness in AI."

🔗 Register: https://t.co/jMJ746sj2w

[Ron Wright @NxtCent1]

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[Stephen Moore @StephenMoore]

Do data centers increase your taxes? NO!

In places like Loudoun County, Virginia, where data centers are heavily concentrated, property tax rates have gone DOWN over the past decade thanks to the revenue they generate.

They pay far more into local budgets than they consume in services, helping fund schools, infrastructure, and public services for everyone else.

[National Artificial Intelligence Association @TheNAIAorg]

🚨 AI+ Expo is this week in Washington, D.C., and NAIA is excited to participate again!

Join us from Thursday, May 7, to Saturday, May 9, at Booth 941.

Meet the team, hear more about NAIA’s plans for the rest of 2026 and discuss how AI companies can help shape the policies, infrastructure and partnerships needed for U.S. AI leadership.

Register for free: https://t.co/EQzDDJPD6f

Learn more about NAIA: https://t.co/JMDw9rzuEf