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Dec 30, 2024

Trump sides with Elon Musk in MAGA fight over immigrant workers

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  1. Trump sides with Elon Musk in GOP fight over legal immigration
  2. OpenAI lays out for-profit transition plans
  3. Trump asks Supreme Court to pause law threatening TikTok ban
  4. U.S. economic growth set to top G-7 peers
  5. U.S. credit card defaults hit $46B in 2024, highest in 14 years
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1. Trump sides with Elon Musk in GOP fight over legal immigration

  • ā€œAlways likedā€ H-1B visas, Trump told the New York Post on Sat.

  • Trump spoke after Elon Musk’s clash with MAGA allies over immigrant workers.

  • Trump moved to restrict the H-1B visa program during his first term.

  • H-1B research ā€œcomplement U.S. workers, fill employment gaps in many STEM occupations, and expand job opportunities for all,ā€ empirical research and economic theory suggest.

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3. OpenAI lays out for-profit transition plans

  • Existing for-profit arm will become a Delaware-based public benefit corporation to ā€œraise more capital than we’d imagined,ā€ OpenAI said.

  • PBC ā€œwill run and control OpenAI’s operations and business.ā€

  • Nonprofit ā€œwill hire a leadership team and staff to pursue charitable initiatives,ā€ OpenAI said.

  • Elon Musk, one of OpenAI’s co-founders, has sought an injunction to block its for-profit shift.

  • Encode, a nonprofit co-sponsoring SB 1047, has also moved to block the transition.

The outlined plan has also been criticized by OpenAI’s longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage

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  • How OpenAI would ā€œadvance safety and good policy,ā€ Brundage questioned.

  • Nonprofit would become a side thing, he worried.

4. Trump asks Supreme Court to pause law threatening TikTok ban

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