# Silicon Valley Is Learning to Love Government Industrial Policy. The Hill and Valley Forum Shows How Far the Shift Has Gone.

_Saturday, March 28, 2026 at 9:29 AM EDT · Products · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Reporting from this year's Hill and Valley Forum shows Silicon Valley's remarkable ideological shift toward government-led industrial policy, onshoring manufacturing, and defense spending. The same tech community that once championed pure free markets is now embracing federal investment in semiconductors, AI, and physical infrastructure as a strategic imperative. AI's growing unpopularity among rank-and-file engineers was also a recurring theme.

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Silicon Valley used to be allergic to government. Now it can't get enough of industrial policy. Reporting from the Hill and Valley Forum shows a tech industry that has fully embraced government-led manufacturing onshoring, defense contracts, and federal AI investment. The culture has shifted.

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Reporting from this year's Hill and Valley Forum captures Silicon Valley's remarkable ideological shift: the tech industry has moved from free-market libertarianism toward active embrace of government-led industrial policy, manufacturing onshoring, and defense alignment. Recurring themes included AI's growing unpopularity among rank-and-file engineers and the tension between corporate AI ambition and the practitioners building it. The forum signals how completely the political economy of tech has reorganized around Washington.

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