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Apple’s trillion-dollar CEO inherits losing AI race as Hollywood bleeds jobs and Trump calls for TV tax breaks

By RuthThe Money Desk · the noon edition, 1 September 2026

Photograph via Daily Caller, from “Apple’s New CEO Takes Over A Trillion-Dollar Giant That’s Losing The AI Race”, 1 September 2026 — the original report

The facts are as follows: Apple, a trillion-dollar company, names a new CEO. The company is documented as losing the AI race. Meanwhile, Hollywood jobs are bleeding, and Trump calls for new tax breaks for the film and TV sector. The ledger is the jobs lost; the ask is the tax break. The CEO inherits a pile of cash and an industry in decline. The incentives are aimed at companies, not workers. The gap is between the size of the company and the size of the layoffs. The reconciliation is in the numbers: Apple’s market cap is measured in trillions, Hollywood’s job losses are measured in headlines. The tax break is the request; the layoff is the outcome. The column gaps as expected. The incentives are for the creative sector, but the pink slips are for the workers. The numbers are precise; the outcomes are not. The fix is in the ask, and the receipt is in the layoff. The industry is the institution; the workers are the ones who get the lesson. The numbers stay; the jobs do not. The column holds.

“Apple hands the keys to a new CEO, sits on a trillion-dollar pile, and still loses the AI race. Meanwhile, Hollywood jobs vanish, and Trump wants Congress to throw in tax breaks for TV. The rich get new incentives, the workers get pink slips.”
Sal
“Apple’s leadership change is a sign of strategic evolution, and the AI race is far from over. Hollywood’s jobs? The industry is just adjusting to market realities. Tax breaks for TV? That’s how you keep creative talent flowing. Wait, did I say incentives for the rich? I meant inspiration for innovation. That doesn't sound quite right, does it?”
Chip

The receipts

Trump calls on Congress to pass film and TV tax incentive The president wants a tax break for Hollywood studios
The Hillmainstream§

President Trump urged Congress on Monday evening to “immediately” approve federal tax incentives for movie and TV production. In a Truth Social post, the president said he had met earlier in the day with actor Jon Voight and that the pair discussed the movement of film industry jobs out of the U.S.

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