WASHINGTON, May 5, 2026, 08:18 (EDT) A surge in artificial-intelligence infrastructure spending is becoming one of the main props under the U.S. economy, with former White House AI and crypto adviser David Sacks arguing that slowing the build-out would now hit growth itself. Sacks wrote on X that AI accounted for 75% of U.S. GDP growth in the first quarter and said the trend was likely to continue. “Stopping progress in AI would be equivalent to halting the U.S. economy,” he said, according to Fortune. (Fortune) That matters now because the latest U.S. growth report showed a narrow kind of
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