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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, January 30th. I'm Bell Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

All this week, we are exploring what President Trump's second term could mean for the tech industry

over the next four years and beyond. Elon Musk is in the Trump White House as lead of the Department of Government Efficiency,

or Doge, which has been tasked with trimming costs, including even government employees.

But Musk is no ordinary member of Trump's orbit. He's also a tech executive who leads six

companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, and XAI, all of which could be impacted by the president's policies.

Today, we are looking at how Musk has made his mark on D.C. in the early days of Trump's presidency.

WS.J columnist Tim Higgins tells us how Trump has dispatched

Musk to various areas of government and outside of government and what that could mean over the

next four years.

All right, Tim, let's start with something that's front and center for some people.

Deep Seek, the Chinese AI company that said it's released a revolutionary AI model with some pretty broad implications for the American company OpenAI.

So sticking with the topic of OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, what's going on between Elon Musk and Sam Oatman?

And how does their dynamic potentially affect how Trump is thinking about AI and his relationships

with big tech?

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