Politico: “Nowhere is that hard pivot more on display than with Alex Karp, the CEO and co-founder of secretive tech giant Palantir, which bet massively on Trump 2.0 and became an administration darling in the process.”

“Inside Palantir’s Manhattan lair, in an exclusive sitdown with Playbook, Karp — who once criticized the Democratic Party as ‘totally irresponsible’ — deployed the word ‘progressive’ eight times to describe his philosophy while acknowledging Democrats ‘absolutely’ corrected in 2026 enough to win back his support in 2028.”

Said Karp: “I’ve been a Democrat my whole life. I grew up in a far left environment. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir— all of our products are essentially progressive.”

Nick Clegg: “Over the past week, following MAGA’s significant losses in the midterms, I have been asked the same questions again and again: How could Silicon Valley have gotten it so wrong? Why did tech leaders not anticipate the consequences of joining themselves at the hip to MAGA straight after Donald Trump won reelection in 2024?”

“What follows is not a critique of the individual tech leaders themselves—some were more restrained than others—nor is it a personal commentary on Mark Zuckerberg, my former boss. I take it as a given that they all acted in what they saw as the interests of their own companies. Rather, my critique is of a herd mentality in the Valley that, in this important instance, led to such a serious and wholly predictable misjudgment.”

“It is especially interesting to try and understand why this happened because, measured against their own stated reasons for the great pivot, it has been a near-total failure.”

Washington Post: “For two years, they enjoyed extraordinary access to the president as his administration rolled back regulations, weakened government oversight and embraced artificial intelligence’s rapid expansion. Some right-leaning tech figures, such as Elon Musk and venture capitalist David Sacks, took formal roles in the administration.”

“But as Democrats swept races across the country last week — propelled in part by Americans’ rage over data centers and fears about AI — some tech leaders are now plotting a dramatic shift in strategy.”

The Guardian: Elon Musk and the tech bros banked on Trump and lost. Humbled, humiliated: what will they do next?

“Democrats’ sweeping midterms victory marked a major rejection of Elon Musk and the artificial-intelligence industry, as a broad backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump and his tech allies put their political influence — and the debt-fueled data center buildout — under sharper scrutiny,” CNBC reports.

“Across the country, voters pushed back against billionaire influence and the growing power of technology companies, electing critics of the AI industry and approving restrictions on data centers fueling its expansion.”

New York Times: Tech billionaires face tricky political waters after Democratic midterm sweep.

“Call it the slop election,” MS NOW reports.

“This year’s midterms have dovetailed with the moment experts have been warning about for years: when generative artificial intelligence makes content that looks real enough to fool people, is accessible to almost everyone and can be deployed at massive scale.”

“Political action committees and campaigns spent well over $100 million on fake ads to influence federal, state and local elections this year. Fake pollsters used AI to make up shops and reports overnight. And political-attack websites disguised as nonprofit think tanks swayed local elections.”