• MEDIA: Google Billionaire Warns US Technology Edge Over China Slipping

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 6 10:49:43 2022
    Michael Bloomberg's guest blogger, Blake Schmidt, on whether Bill
    Stepien has focus grouped for Donald Trump's Save America PAC legacy
    American moms and dads on why they won't let their sons and daughters
    grow up to be STEM professionals: <URL:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-01/google-billionaire-warns-us-technology-edge-over-china-slipping>
    | The 75-page SCSP report calls for the government to create an
    | independent development bank to provide "patient capital" to help
    | "de-risk" private investment in deep tech and increase the H-1B visa
    | cap to help plug the estimated 90,000-worker talent gap in the
    | microeletronics industry.
    |
    | Schmidt's growing role in shaping policy in Washington could
    | potentially conflict with some of his private-sector interests, said
    | Jack Poulson, executive director of Tech Inquiry, which tracks the
    | industry's role in government. Those include providing backing for
    | startups such as SandboxAQ, a quantum-computing and AI company that
    | was spun off from Google in 2016.
    |
    | "SCSP is organized as a charitable entity, and has no relationship
    | to any personal investment activities of Dr. Schmidt," said Tara
    | Rigler, a spokesperson for the group.

    Does Stepien worry that Biden will keep to Trump's right on .CN?
    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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