Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman was a trade negotiator for Donald Trump's first term. Here's what it took to get the president to a deal.

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Politics
Three men in suits sit side-by-side
From L: Donald Trump, Steve Schwarzman, and Chris Liddell

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Elon Musk's hunger for chips is taxing Nvidia's capacity to make them: report

Tech Insider : Business
Elon Musk speaking at a Trump campaign rally in Madison Square Garden in New York; Jensen Huang speaking at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC.
A Nvidia sales lead said in an email to colleagues that Musk's demand for chips was straining the company's supply chain, per The Wall Street Journal.

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Elon Musk wants to 'delete' a federal agency designed to prevent another financial crisis and protect people from scams

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics, Business
Elon Musk
Elon Mush and Vivek Ramaswamy have floated "deleting" entire agencies, laying off staff, and enforcing return-to-office mandates to cut costs.

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Government workers on the prospect of DOGE-fueled layoffs: 'It kind of feels like we're being villainized'

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics, Business
A photo illustration of a person in a shirt and blazer holding a box of office binders and snippets of hundred-dollar bills and résumés in the background.

Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI

SpaceX's Starlink satellites have a lot of scientists worried about Earth's atmosphere

Tech Insider : Business, Environment
A long exposure photo of a satellite moving across the night sky.
A trail of Starlink satellites appears in the night sky five days after its launch.

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Elon Musk has Twitter and Trump's ear. He's still not getting everything he wants.

Tech Insider : Politics, Business, Technology
Elon Musk talking to Donald Trump at a SpaceX launch, November 2024
The world's richest man has the attention of the world's most powerful man.

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xAI is reportedly launching a ChatGPT-like app for consumers, deepening Elon Musk's rivalry with Sam Altman

Tech Insider : Business
Elon Musk next to xAI's logo on a phone
Elon Musk's xAI reportedly plans to launch a chatbot app next month.

Anadolu

Maye Musk welcomes Elon's bromance with Donald Trump and says they 'just seem to be having fun'

Tech Insider : Politics, Politics, Business
Donald Trump sits with Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been spending a lot of time with Donald Trump following his election win.

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In an F-35 funding fight, Musk will need to win over a skeptical Congress and Trump

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
A US F-35 in flight.
A US F-35 in flight.

US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jack Rodgers

Marc Andreessen is hopping on the Musk bandwagon and slamming manned fighter jets, saying there won't be 'spam in the can' if pilots aren't in the plane

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Marc Andreessen speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California; Elon Musk speaking at a Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York.
"You don't have to keep a human being alive, which means you can be a lot faster and you can move a lot more quickly," Marc Andreessen told Joe Rogan on the latter's podcast.

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