1-0 to humankind? US midterms vote puts AI, datacentres and the broligarchy back in their box | Heather Stewart

The Guardian Business Sunday 08 November 2026, 12:05 UTC By Heather Stewart 1 min read

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Election results appear to have turbo-charged an already growing social, political and financial market rethink about AI‘AI clog’: UK battles onslaught of chatbot-generated complaintsEditorial: the AI backlash – Silicon Valley’s political power is crackingLast week’s midterms may not have cowed Donald Trump, but they should be a wake-up call for the grinning tech broligarchs who lined up at his inauguration two chaotic years ago. Clearly, the cost of living squeeze unleashed by Trump’s war...

Election results appear to have turbo-charged an already growing social, political and financial market rethink about AI

‘AI clog’: UK battles onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints
Editorial: the AI backlash – Silicon Valley’s political power is cracking

Last week’s midterms may not have cowed Donald Trump, but they should be a wake-up call for the grinning tech broligarchs who lined up at his inauguration two chaotic years ago.

Clearly, the cost of living squeeze unleashed by Trump’s war in Iran was a big driver of the Democrat wave. But AI was also on the ballot – in many places, literally.

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