Tech Giants Brace for AI Revamp, Antitrust Pullback in Trump 2.0

  • Trump expected to replace FTC chair Khan, void Biden AI order
  • Musk poised to shape policy after all-out support for campaign
Elon Musk during a campaign event for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 27.Photographer: Adam Gray/Bloomberg
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Silicon Valley is bracing for a vastly different relationship with the US government as Donald Trump returns to the White House with promises to undo many of his predecessor’s policies and Elon Musk poised to play an influential role.

On artificial intelligence, Trump has vowed to rip up an executive order from President Joe Biden aimed at putting safety guardrails on the emerging technology. In antitrust, the new administration is expected to seek a lighter touch with merger oversight, while on semiconductors, the president-elect has expressed misgivings about a bipartisan program using government investment to boost domestic chip production.