China ponders what will come under Trump 2.0
China has warned US President Donald Trump it will retaliate if tariffs are imposed on goods from the two countries. “We will do our best to raise the price of products for US consumers,” Chinese Foreign Ministry said. The US has imposed tariffs on $3 billion worth of Chinese products and is also planning to impose tariffs on an additional $60 billion worth of Chinese goods.
What a second Trump presidency means for tech
After US President-elect Donald Trump took to social media to congratulate him for winning the election, Google’s Sundar Pichai wrote on Twitter, “Thank you for the confidence in me and in the future of Google.” Amazon’s Andy Jassy said, “I’m looking forward to working with him as the FTC chair.” Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg tweeted, “Excited to be working with Trump for a second term.”
Donald Trump’s win will affect Big Tech
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said US President-elect Donald Trump met him and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to congratulate them on their victory. “I know we all have similar goals for our countries,” he added. Trump had said in a video that he planned to “toughen up” Apple’s encryption policy, adding, “Apple is one of the world’s most valuable people.”
Scientists worldwide react to the Trump election win
After US President Donald Trump won re-election in the presidential election, scientists have said that there’ll be a “marked reduction” in scientific cooperation with China. They added that Trump’s administration could also withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord and restrict AI development. Meanwhile, scientists also said that there is no clear plan for reviving the China Initiative.
Musk suggests that a Trump administration could be a target
Elon Musk has said that AI models being trained in San Francisco Bay Area take on the philosophy of people around them. “A lot of the AIs…take on the philosophy of people around them,” he added. He also warned against the current artificial intelligence models being too politically Correct, and dragged it into former US President Donald Trump’s crosshairs.
Donald Trump’s Ground Game in Michigan is mostly jokey
Autoworkers for Donald Trump, a campaign to win the votes of undecided low-propensity voters, has said, “You’ve gotta vote early…One thing I know is, the Democrats are gonna cheat.” The Harris campaign and the Michigan Democratic Party have also put a premium on low-propensity voters that they hope to reach with relational organising, or individuals harnessing their personal networks to get out the vote.
A baseless voting claim is being amplified on social media
Several accounts on social media that claimed they voted overseas in the US Presidential election were also bragging that they voted for Donald Trump inswing states, a report said. In 2015, Trump made a false claim on his social media that the Democrats intended to use overseas ballots to manipulate the election results.
Silicon Valley billionaires became Trump’s biggest donors
Elon Musk has donated $75 million to Donald Trump’s political action committee (PAC), which is campaigning in swing states for the Trump campaign, since endorsing Trump after the assassination attempt on him in Pennsylvania. Tesla Founder Antonio Gracias donated $1 million to the America PAC while former ambassador to Sweden Kenneth Howery donated $1 million to the Trump 47 PAC.
Trump addresses an apparent assassination attempt for the first time
Former US President Donald Trump said in an interview that he had been shot at while playing golf in West Palm Beach but the US Secret Service “did a good job” protecting him. The ex-president added that he heard four to five gunshots and was whisked away in a golf cart. He further called the assassination attempt on his life a “rhetoric”.
Today, Tik Tok argued in court against the US ban
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday heard the TikTok appeal against the ban by the US President Donald Trump. TikTok’s lawyer Jeffrey Fisher argued that the ban is a violation of users’ First Amendment rights. However, the judges said that it’s not a foreign country and they will show deference to Congress that it has established a legitimate national security threat.