Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Michael Dell, and other tech leaders congratulate Trump on his election victory — Leaders of major technology companies congratulated President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance on their victory in the U.S. presidential election Wednesday.
Sources: Saudi Arabia plans a new AI project to rival the UAE’s tech hub, backed by $50B to $100B to invest in data centers, startups, new talent, and more (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Saudi Arabia plans a new AI project to rival the UAE’s tech hub, backed by $50B to $100B to invest in data centers, startups, new talent, and more — – Entity would build on kingdom’s efforts to emerge as AI hub — PIF, Google AI partnership may serve as model for project
What a Trump victory means for tech: antitrust woes die down, except for Google, TikTok survives, AI progress accelerates, social media shifts right, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
What a Trump victory means for tech: antitrust woes die down, except for Google, TikTok survives, AI progress accelerates, social media shifts right, and more — Another Trump presidency will be good for crypto and Elon Musk, but every big tech company may not benefit from a more hands-off approach to antitrust.
Stand With Crypto: US voters elected 253 pro-crypto candidates to the House, compared to 115 anti-crypto candidates, and 16 pro-crypto Senate candidates (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Stand With Crypto: US voters elected 253 pro-crypto candidates to the House, compared to 115 anti-crypto candidates, and 16 pro-crypto Senate candidates — The spending spree fueled a string of victories on Tuesday for congressional candidates who had expressed support for cryptocurrencies.
Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump on his “political comeback and decisive victory” in a rare X post; Bezos last reacted to Trump’s failed assassination on July 13 (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:
Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump on his “political comeback and decisive victory” in a rare X post; Bezos last reacted to Trump’s failed assassination on July 13 — Jeff Bezos wasted no time in sending his good wishes to President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday morning …
Polymarket and Kalshi expect to pay out ~$450M total to US election bettors; Kalshi says 28K bet on Harris, 40K on Trump; one Polymarket user bet $40M on Trump (Michelle Conlin/Reuters)
Michelle Conlin / Reuters:
Polymarket and Kalshi expect to pay out ~$450M total to US election bettors; Kalshi says 28K bet on Harris, 40K on Trump; one Polymarket user bet $40M on Trump — Thousands who gambled on the U.S. election are looking forward to a potential payout of about $450 million from online gambling sites …
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review: the $479 Zen 5-based CPU improves gaming performance, day-to-day tasks, and creative workloads, and should be the pick for PC gamers (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review: the $479 Zen 5-based CPU improves gaming performance, day-to-day tasks, and creative workloads, and should be the pick for PC gamers — AMD’s 7800X3D successor is also better at non-gaming workloads this time around. … AMD has dominated PC gaming CPU performance for more than two years.
Lyft partners with autonomous vehicle startup May Mobility to launch cars in Atlanta in 2025, and self-driving car company Mobileye and smart dashcam firm Nexar (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Lyft partners with autonomous vehicle startup May Mobility to launch cars in Atlanta in 2025, and self-driving car company Mobileye and smart dashcam firm Nexar — It seems Lyft is hoping to catch up to Uber’s string of autonomous vehicle partnerships. — Lyft announced Wednesday three …
A look at Trump’s potential new administration, including Elon Musk, tasked with “a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
A look at Trump’s potential new administration, including Elon Musk, tasked with “a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” — The new US president is expected to prize loyalty in his picks for key posts — After clinching the election …
The EU Commission opens an antitrust investigation into smartphone glass maker Corning over allegedly abusing its market dominance to squeeze out rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU Commission opens an antitrust investigation into smartphone glass maker Corning over allegedly abusing its market dominance to squeeze out rivals — – EU fears deals with smartphone firms are anti-competitive — Corning pressed to remedy EU concerns with concessions
