Documents: Nvidia and Apple each committed $25M, the top contribution amount, to Trump's WH ballroom; Microsoft and Palantir committed $10M, Meta and Amazon $5M
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Top tech firms quietly writing eight-figure checks for political real estate underscores how deeply intertwined compute, regulation, and access have become. Operators should assume major policy moves on AI, antitrust, and trade will be shaped in rooms funded by this kind of capital—and plan advocacy and compliance strategies accordingly.
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