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The Jensen Huang sized hole at Nvidia

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s resignation creates a vacuum in power centers that the celebrity executive dominated across Silicon Valley, Washington, Wall Street and the glob

Palantir’s Alex Karp on welcoming a Democratic Congress

In today’s episode of Decoded by Politico, Playbook co-author Adam Wren talks with Calder McHugh about his interview with Palantir CEO Alex Karp and former Montana Sen. J

Anthropic’s $1.4 trillion question, Jensen Huang deals with Washington

Anthropic announced Tuesday it’s targeting a roughly $1.4 trillion valuation for its IPO, below earlier expectations. Shares could reportedly begin trading as soon as nex

Is Jensen Huang too big to fail?

Jensen Huang is testing the theory that an executive can become too big to fail. Tech policy insiders around Washington struggled to identify individuals around the compa

Nvidia’s moment of reckoning, Inside Dem's 2028 AI safety brainstorm

The world’s leading developer of advanced computer chips is under fire, after its CEO Jensen Huang admitted to an affair, following reports about U.S. government concern

The blue wave hits Anthropic’s IPO

Anthropic is expected to debut on the Nasdaq later this month in what could be the largest IPO of all time. But Democrats' midterm victories and data center backlash have

Trump’s AI isolation

President Donald Trump has dominated AI policy talks since taking office last year. But that dominance is almost certain to end after Tuesday’s midterms. Plus, Bigger tre

Big Tech goes down with GOP

Democrats who ran hard against Big Tech claimed decisive victories on Tuesday. For the GOP, the midterm elections may go down as the moment their candidates’ emphatic emb

The forever AI wars

AI is now a transformative force in the political economy of the U.S. And while technology won’t be top of mind for most Americans when they vote later today, it’s alread

Big Tech’s top races to watch, PM Mark Carney on AI

AI has been a big topic in midterm campaigns and coverage, but few races are actually referendums on the technology. That means the direction of tech policy may not diffe

AI safety advocates ask Newsom for special session; AG races to watch in the midterms

National AI safety advocates are warning California Gov. Gavin Newsom not to blow what they see as his last window to shore up his state’s AI regulations before a preside

Rohit Chopra’s AI nightmare; Meta faces new trial on social media addiction in LA

Rohit Chopra knows the makings of an economic crisis when he sees one. And Chopra — a top consumer protection watchdog under Joe Biden who was ousted by Donald Trump — th

The billionaires bankrolling a record wealth tax fight; Open AI's midterms war room

illionaire opponents of California’s proposed wealth tax have spent more fighting it than they ever have on a political cause in the state, according to a Decoded by POLI

Pricing Anthropic’s end-of-world risk

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned investors that his lab’s AI models could threaten humanity as he prepares for what may be the largest initial public offering of all tim

Potential AI lawsuits worry business leaders; leading AI super PACs go dark

CEOs outside the tech world are racing to integrate AI into their businesses as they prepare for the dawn of a new economy. But they’ve been slower to establish guardrail

Why Silicon Valley is watching Brazil’s election, David Shor on AI bubble

Sunday’s run-off vote in Brazil won’t just decide the fate of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Bolsonaro clan with which he has sparred for the last decade. It

Peter Thiel criticizes Trump policy in exclusive recordings

Peter Thiel does not support the Trump administration’s war in Iran, he told a private, assembled audience in Nashville on October 12. In today’s episode of Decoded, host

The vibe shift comes for Bitcoin’s bad boys

With Trump’s own crypto interests looming over the industry and Democrats poised for a return to power, crypto’s founding rebels are confronting an uncomfortable reality:

Sergey Brin’s huge spending spree to defeat the billionaire tax

Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who once called government a “giant bonfire of partisanship” and spent years on the political sidelines, has emerged as a force in the midt

The tech industry is GOP-coded

American voters across the political spectrum now assume most tech CEOs are conservative, according to new results from The POLITICO Poll. The results, first revealed in