AI companies can’t figure out if the Trump tariffs are about to decimate them – and the fact that no one has a clear answer is sending them, and the tech industry overall, into a confusion spiral.

While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic build the software models to power AI services like ChatGPT and Claude, they rely on cloud companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet’s

While the semiconductor brains of artificial intelligence are so far exempt from tariffs, the materials used to build the massive sites where they are installed and operated are not. That’s a problem.

The two memos follow Trump’s decision to rescind the Biden administration’s executive order on AI and review its actions — but much appears similar.

Economist Wojtek Kopczuk asked ChatGPT to calculate tariffs to balance out the U.S. trade deficit. He received a similar answer to the White House’s documentation, showing the AI used “a basic approach” that divided the trade deficit by the total trade. Entrepreneur Amy Hoy ran a similar experiment, yielding identical results from AI models.

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U.S. equity markets lost roughly $1.5 trillion after President Trump announced sweeping punitive import duties, but the administration is more interested in bringing down borrowing costs to stave off a potential sovereign debt doom loop.

The whole U.S. stock market is feeling the pain from the sweeping new tariffs that President Trump announced Wednesday after the market closed. As of 1:10 p.m. ET Thursday, the blue chip Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen by over 1,