How Silicon Valley Wrote Washington's AI War Narrative

The line between commercial advocacy and national security doctrine has effectively dissolved. When Scale AI's Alexandr Wang purchased a full-page Washington Post ad on inauguration day warning that "America Must Win the AI War," the move was framed as patriotism by Silicon Valley but functioned as the most efficient possible policy insertion: a message calibrated to a new president's competitive instincts, delivered at the moment of maximum attention. The result is a strategic frame whose origins in commercial interest have been laundered into the language of national security necessity.