Trump: AI Could Be Bigger Than the Internet, Backs Light-Touch Regulation

The framing matters more than the soundbite. By pairing a maximalist claim about AI's scale with an explicit light-touch regulatory stance, the message aligns the technology's growth trajectory with energy and infrastructure buildout rather than with guardrails — a signal that the policy debate is shifting toward permitting and power supply as the binding constraints. For crypto and RWA markets, the relevant thread is the same one that governs data centers: access to electricity and a permissive posture toward large-scale construction. Whether that posture translates into durable policy, or remains rhetorical, is the open question.