What AI’s nightmare November means for politics, power and business
November 13, 2026
Analysis: Bronwen Maddox, David Lubin, and Alex Krasodomski assess the converging political and market shocks hitting the U.S. artificial intelligence sector following the 2026 midterms. They highlight how grassroots resistance to energy-intensive data centers and the resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang over an alleged Chinese espionage affair expose deep vulnerabilities in Washington’s tech-industrial base. This matters because domestic political friction and supply-chain counterintelligence risks could erode U.S. technological hegemony in its strategic competition with China.