Silicon Valley’s call to speed up AI to fight China may no longer work; as in group chats and phone calls, left-leaning donors and advisers are planning to change …

For the first two years of President Donald Trump’s second term, Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives made a public show of loyalty. Top CEOs sat on the dais at Trump’s inauguration and showered the administration with gifts and donations, including money for the White House ballroom. In return, they got access, deregulation and a green light for rapid AI expansion, a report has said, adding that right-leaning figures like Elon Musk and venture capitalist David Sacks took formal roles in the government. Now, after Democrats swept races across the country in midterms last week – driven in large part by voter anger over data centers and artificial intelligence – a different faction of the tech world is quietly organising a course correction.