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President Donald Trump sits at a desk holding up a signed document with his signature visible. Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President, stands on the left clapping. David Sacks, White House AI and Crypto Czar and Co‑Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, stands on the right looking on. US flags and the presidential seal appear in the background. 

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