From the front row to the hot seat — what the midterms mean for Big Tech

After two years of building ties with the Trump administration, Silicon Valley companies are working to rebuild relationships with Democrats following midterm power shifts, with critics like Public Citizen's J.B. Branch calling moves such as OpenAI's hiring of Jessica Schumer "PR washing." Analysts expect most AI regulation to happen at the state level, where data center moratoriums and AI bills are advancing, while a post-midterm trillion-dollar market sell-off raised questions about the AI boom's political stakes.