If you’ve been watching Meta and Microsoft’s latest financial results and thinking, “Wow, tech is back!” well, enjoy the party while it lasts.  Because just beyond the confetti and Mark Zuckerberg’s AI-powered smile, there’s a freight train of tariffs and antitrust headaches barreling straight for Silicon Valley’s golden children.

A lot has been written about this in the last 24 hours, so I want to devote this week’s column to some of the best commentary I could find coming out of the US analysing areas of tech where Trump’s authority will likely be felt…

As a researcher of information systems and AI, I examined both candidates’ records on technology regulation. Here are the important differences.