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we talked about the upshot of the election for big businesses which is essentially, "lawyer up"
Democrats' warning to "lawyer up" is sending ripples through Washington as the party gears up to launch investigations into President Trump and the people and companies in his orbit.
@JoshuaGreen joins @chafkin and @svaneksmith on the Everybody's Business podcast to discuss what these probes might look like under a Democrat-led Congress. Listen and watch at bit.ly/4diMcN4.
Musk lost $34 billion in net worth yesterday, and today Tesla and SpaceX are each down close to 10%. Easy to see why he spent so much (and why he'll keep spending) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
this 100%. a significant percentage of the industry has spent way, way too much time talking to their sycophancy machines
quick thoughts from me on Bloomberg TV this morning
Shares of Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX fell ahead of Wednesday’s US stock-market opening as Democrats swept to control of Congress.
Max Chafkin has more bloom.bg/3V2ZHKo
i'm not saying this is whats going on exactly, but if i were a wealthy businessman who'd move to texas because of the anti-billionaire climate in california, and then watched as the climate in texas also turned anti-billionaire...I might wonder if i were part of the problem
dont think people appreciate how big a role anger at tech companies played in this election
.@NBCNews Exit Poll: Voters are concerned about AI and overwhelmingly oppose data centers nbcnews.com/politics/2026-el…
lol come on we all remember that google search existed before they tacked ai summaries onto the top of the results
Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that opt out of A.I. for kids.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
oops meant to include the link to the story which is really good newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
a lot of what is happening in markets rn is about this imho. yes, the results are bad, but tech also is staring at an environment where even the pro-tech moderates want to reign them in and the anti-tech guys are talking abt prosecutions and kill switches bloomberg.com/news/features/…
my kids are going to be very impressed by this
YouTube Star @MarkRober shares what’s missing in education, what it takes to go viral and what technology he’s most excited for. He speaks with Bloomberg’s @Chafkin bloom.bg/3UrLXIU
The message here is something like: “Nice memestock you have there. Be a shame if something bad happened to it”
Worth revisiting this story from last year in light of the Times' excellent report about Jensen Huang's close relationship with an alleged Chinese spy. (Gift link) bloomberg.com/news/features/…
for @bw's newsletter I wrote about the anthropic pitch -- and the many unanswered questions bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
really enjoyed this interview in which errol morris describes rejected commercial pitches, among other things variety.com/2026/film/featur…
