From the Front Row to the Hot Seat: What the Midterms Mean for Big Tech - AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #137
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From the Front Row to the Hot Seat: What the Midterms Mean for Big Tech
Big Tech is trying to make friends with Democrats after the midterms, but TechCrunch argues the real fights are in state capitols, in towns deciding on data centers, and in the markets. OpenAI hired Sen. Chuck Schumer’s daughter and started calling data centers “compute campuses.” |
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