Trump and Harris are duking it out, and Australian tech is watching [Video]

The clashing visions of US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on tax, immigration, crypto, AI and manufacturing will have profound impacts on Australia’s technology sector, local executives say, amid a surge in optimism from the Fed’s bumper interest rate cut.

The US election is now less than 50 days away, and there’s a nervous yet optimistic energy on the ground in San Francisco, which has long enjoyed a reputation for being the global epicentre of innovation and technological prowess.

Outspoken tech billionaires such as Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen have thrown their considerable weight behind former president Donald Trump, with the Silicon Valley investor crowd less reliably blue than it once was.

But if the city of San Francisco was a barometer for …