In a rare show of bipartisanship, Democrats and Donald Trump's conservative supporters both blame the president's ties to the tech industry for his administration's limited response to recent hacks carried out by OpenAI and Anthropic's AI agents. Two weeks have passed since OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI agents broke into AI company Hugging Face’s systems. The White House said it was monitoring the situation, and Trump said he was looking at controls on AI. Anthropic said it had discovered some of its AI models had hacked into three companies' systems. Steve Bannon, a conservative media star and longtime Trump ally, said the White House's regulation of AI has been inadequate given the national security threat, placing the blame on Silicon Valley, citing "too cozy a relationship between the companies and the staff, not just in the White House but I also think in the national security apparatus." U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon said, "Trump has been AWOL because he thinks the billionaire owners of AI companies are on his side," and accused Trump and his Republican allies of blocking state AI laws and knocking down basic protections. Anthropic's relationship with the government ruptured this year after it refused to allow the U.S. military to use its AI models for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons systems. The White House and OpenAI did not respond to requests for comment. Tech companies and their executives have donated over $300 million to support Trump's 2024 reelection efforts and MAGA Inc