As a parade of billionaire entrepreneurs including Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and even more liberal-leaning Mark Cuban has congratulated Mr. Trump on his win, Ms. Powell Jobs has not joined the president-elect’s cheering squad.

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"This will be a multi-year AI journey that will define the future for Apple with its next generation chip architecture, hardware releases, and future iPhone models built around the AI foundation that many consumers will ultimately embrace."

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