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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 next Thursday, marking the first public debut by a frontier AI lab. Plus, we’ve been diving deeper into how Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang amassed power through the first two years of President Donald Trump’s second term. But the influence...

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 company who might fill the void if he’s ultimately forced out, when speaking with Decoded by POLITICO. Plus, a top critic of Jensen Huang, Biden’s former AI czar Ben Buchanan, is urging Democrats to go hard on regulating the...

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 over a relationship between the tech leader and an executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed. It will likely cause congressional Democrats to accelerate probes into Huang’s sway over the Trump administration,...

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 shaken investors who were already questioning if frontier labs could make good on pie-in-the-sky projections of future growth. Plus, a big tent coalition focused on AI safety came together and won big in this year's midterms....

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 trends started to emerge Wednesday as more results rolled in from election night, making even clearer who won and lost on topics ranging from data centers to AI policy. We'll discuss how some big players in the tech industry fared —...

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 embrace of the industry came to an end.For more news and analysis, subscribe to the Decoded newsletter: politico.com/decoded Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 already having a profound influence on how they work, invest and travel. The outcome of the midterms will have significant bearing on both development of AI and its deployment. Plus, a new poll of voters nationally and in Ohio shows...

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 differ so much, depending on who wins in Tuesday’s elections, as our reporters explain. Plus, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to POLITICO about AI regulation.For more news and analysis, subscribe to the Decoded newsletter:...

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 presidential election cycle that may be defined by the technology — and one where he could be running. Plus, Voters in Texas, Nevada, California, Minnesota and Florida will decide on Tuesday who leads some of the country’s most...

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 — thinks the current administration is ill-prepared to handle the fallout of a possible AI bubble. Plus, jury selection continues in the Los Angeles Superior Court’s second bellwether trial on alleged social media youth addiction,...