I would like to be able to produce, from time to time, a Tech Letter free of the slightest mention of Elon Musk. But no way. The ineffable prince of tech so hovers from the top of his 400 billion dollars of personal fortune, his taste for ketamine and other psychotropic drugs and his ultimate goal, the conquest of Mars, so disrupt his mental connection with the humble populace of the earth , that he has just started the first internecine war of the Trump era. Musk thus discovers that the party whose victory he lavishly financed in the White House and in Congress is not at all, but not at all, in phase with him on an essential subject: immigration.
It all started on December 22, with the announcement of the appointment of Sriram Krishnan, a pro-Trump Silicon Valley figure close to Musk, as advisor for artificial intelligence in the next government. Krishnan, of Indian origin, said he was in favor of granting more resident cards and special H-1B visas to the cream of foreign technicians and engineers necessary for the triumph of American tech. Hence the reactions. The Wall Street Journal details the fury of the Maga avant-garde (“Make America great again”), starting with cell
