Daniella Cheslow

Washington, D.C., United States

Deputy Tech Editor at POLITICO

Deputy Tech Editor @POLITICO. Priors at @WSJ @AFP. Burns Fellow 2018. Enjoy the ride.

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Articles

Is a U.S. social media policy built around just one person?

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Daniella Cheslow

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has sparred with both Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. | Gustavo Moreno/AP With help from Anthony AdragnaOne of the more puzzling pieces of American tech and diplomatic policy in the new Trump era was the one announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week — a new visa restriction for foreign officials “complicit in censoring Americans”.
The future of the digital service tax

1 month ago | politico.com | Daniella Cheslow

President Donald Trump holds up a chart while announcing reciprocal tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025. | Chip Somodevilla/AFP via Getty Images The countries that do business with the U.S. — so, practically everyone — are in the midst of negotiations to avoid sky-high tariffs that President Donald Trump announced on “Liberation Day” before he put them on ice for three months.
Is Nvidia an American asset - or a globalist power?

1 month ago | politico.com | Daniella Cheslow

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote address during the Nvidia GTC 2025 at SAP Center on March 18, 2025, in San Jose, California. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s whirlwind tour of the Gulf last week – and the attendant blitz of AI dealmaking – promised numbers so absurd they seemed mystical. And no company was more at the center of the action than Nvidia.
Trump's Saudi trip turns into an AI lovefest

1 month ago | politico.com | Daniella Cheslow

President Donald Trump speaks at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. | Alex Brandon/AP For years, the U.S.- Saudi Arabia relationship revolved around oil and defense. But this week’s state visit by President Donald Trump to Riyadh strongly signals a pivot to technology, as the regions find common ground not in petroleum, but in rich wells of investment capital.
Europe wants to free itself from US tech. Can it?

1 month ago | politico.com | Daniella Cheslow

With help from Anthony Adragna and Derek Robertson The flag of the European Union flies at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 6, 2025. | Hatim Kaghat/BELGA/AFP via Getty Images Europe has been reeling since President Donald Trump returned to office, flanked by American tech executives, and began complaining that the E.U. was formed “to screw” the U.S. and handicap its companies.
A startup boom on the Mediterranean? The French are trying

1 month ago | politico.com | Daniella Cheslow

With help from Mohar Chatterjee Bathers swim off the coast of Marseille, France in April 2025. | Daniella Cheslow/POLITICO MARSEILLE, FRANCE — Europe’s sluggish pace of tech innovation is hardly a secret. For years, the continent has seen its best and brightest technologists leave, primarily to the U.S., chasing investments and lucrative industry jobs. But some in Europe’s tech space now see a unique opportunity, driven primarily by American political and economic instability.
Will Trump’s trade war backfire on tech?

2 months ago | politico.com | Daniella Cheslow |Pieter Haeck

With help from Alfred Ng Washington’s trade war is hitting Europe at a loaded time for the continent’s tech regulators. For the past decade, Europe has proudly staked out a role as the leading global rulemaker on Big Tech, with major laws governing data privacy, online competition, content moderation and now artificial intelligence. But recently Brussels has been second-guessing its approach, worried it could stifle innovation.
Will Trump’s trade war backfire on tech?

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Daniella Cheslow |Pieter Haeck

With help from Alfred Ng Washington’s trade war is hitting Europe at a loaded time for the continent’s tech regulators. For the past decade, Europe has proudly staked out a role as the leading global rulemaker on Big Tech, with major laws governing data privacy, online competition, content moderation …
Tech VCs feel their own special tariff pain

2 months ago | politico.com | Daniella Cheslow

With help from John HendelOne of the most prolific social media users in the Trump orbit has gone nearly silent on X since “Liberation Day”: venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. The investor and co-founder of Silicon Valley juggernaut Andreessen Horowitz, whose optimism about the coming Trump era made him a symbol of the industry’s rightward turn, has only reposted a wonky guide to building a GPU server since his candidate’s on-and-off global tariffs set tech stocks reeling.
A split screen for tech on 'Liberation Day'

2 months ago | politico.com | Daniella Cheslow

With help from Mohar Chatterjee The Federal Trade Commission | AP In a chaotic week for nearly every industry in Washington, nothing embodied the oddness of the moment for Big Tech more than a single photo: the ultra-progressive former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and ultra-conservative populist Steve Bannon posing, with tight-lipped smiles, together.