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🗓️ 29 April 2025
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0:00.0 | The White House's newest clash with Amazon could be just the latest sign of strain in Trump's relationship with Big Tech, 100 days into his second tenure. |
0:11.7 | That's the focus of today's tech check with DeBosso. |
0:14.3 | Dee already. CNN's reporting that Trump personally called Bezos on that report today. |
0:19.6 | Well, the honeymoon is over, Carl, this morning the White House blasting Amazon for what it |
0:24.3 | calls a hostile and political act for reported plans to display the cost of tariffs next to |
0:29.5 | the total price of products on the site, something that Amazon quickly said it was not going to |
0:33.5 | implement. |
0:34.1 | But this is another clear example of the fraying alliance between tech and the second |
0:37.7 | Trump administration just 100 days in, one that had started with far more promise. Many will |
0:43.4 | remember this image. Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sunder-Bachai, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Sergey |
0:48.7 | Brin, some of the most powerful leaders in tech. They had prime seating at the president's inauguration. |
0:55.0 | Many of them or their companies having donated to the event, too, hoping for a friendlier or at least a less hostile |
1:00.1 | political environment than the previous Biden administration. Instead, though, tensions, they're |
1:04.4 | spilling into the public. Amazon considering, even if it was just considering displaying tariff |
1:09.0 | costs for consumers, that would call out the real bottom line impact of Trump's policies. And it would mark one of the most visible |
1:15.6 | signs of big tech pushing back. Now, another signal came earlier this month when NVIDE |
1:20.4 | CEO, Jensen Huang, made a surprise trip to Beijing to reassure officials and clients |
1:25.3 | amid the tariffs and the export ban. |
1:28.0 | Now, Huang heads to the White House tomorrow for an event, and it will be interesting to watch the tone here, |
1:33.6 | whether Jensen Huang and others lean into support for the agenda or whether the growing strain surfaces more clearly. |
1:40.3 | Remember that in less than a month, more restrictions will come into effect that will impact |
1:44.4 | NVIDIA's bottom line unless the president stops them, which is looking increasingly unlikely |
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