Politico January 14, 2025
Come next week, Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress and the White House will have an open field to craft tech policy — if they don’t get in their own way.
Their decisions could make the difference between staying ahead on artificial intelligence in the long term, or falling behind rivals like China as the technology gallops ahead. Whoever dominates in AI is expected to wield significant geopolitical power and economic prosperity.
But tensions have begun emerging around tech priorities like high-skilled immigration, AI legislation and trade restrictions to block China, with plenty of room for Silicon Valley conservatives to clash with President-elect Donald Trump’s populist base.
Those fault lines came into relief at the POLITICO Playbook: The...