Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg: the inauguration photo now reads like a subpoena list

The front-row photo of Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg at Donald Trump's inauguration now looks like a hitlist for a blue Congress, the Guardian argues. While Trump seemed an everlasting kingmaker and AI expansion unstoppable, the centibillionaires' fortunes ballooned; Elon Musk's surpassed $1tn. After Tuesday, going all-in on Maga looks like an unhedged bet. Democrats say anger over tech oligarchs, the AI boom, datacenters and Flock surveillance cameras drove voters to them. "Voters rejected Republicans in part because they were bought and paid for by AI billionaires," wrote Texas Democrat Greg Casar. Senator Jon Ossoff pledged to bring "big tech to heel," and Ed Markey tweeted that "they are going to need to plant new forests for all of the subpoenas we'll be printing." Democrats have promised congressional investigations into tech companies and moratoriums on hyperscale datacenters. For the richest men on earth, the political weather just changed.