Something (else) for the weekend - when patriotism means punishing US firms for hiring foreign talent, it’s tech innovation that will suffer
One notable feature of the Trump 2.0 administration to date has been the willingness of Big Tech to abandon previous resistance to aspects of the MAGA policy doctrine and to fall in line with whatever edict comes along from the White House. See, re-naming AI as a current case in point.
Firms such as Meta, once regarded as irksomely troublesome by Trump and his inner circle, are now broken in and have come to heel. Mark Zuckerberg, once threatened with imprisonment by the putative candidate, is now summoned by the triumphant President to the front of the line in front of the non-Fake News media to publicly re-affirm his fealty, even as others scuttle in embarrassment out of sight of the cameras at the earliest opportunity. (Hi Dario!)
Political schizophrenia
All of this has led to a volatile, indeed near schizophrenic, state of affairs in the balance of power between...
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