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Articles from www.politico.com

Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the agency; Carr can immediately assume control once Trump is inaugurated as he is already on the commission (www.politico.com)
5 days ago Trump

A single grant of $123M has been finalized from $33B+ announced so far under the US CHIPS Act, which is facing criticism on both sides of the political aisle (www.politico.com)
20 days ago

FTC data: three crypto super PACs have spent $82M in 19 races, including $40M in Ohio and $10M in Arizona; the ads focus on candidates and rarely mention crypto (www.politico.com)
2024-10-17

The US is fretting over signing a UN cybercrime treaty due to fears Russia, China, and others could use it to justify surveillance and suppression of rights (www.politico.com)
2024-9-28 Russia China

Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on federally funded chip projects, breaking with environmental groups and House Democrats (www.politico.com)
2024-9-25 Democrat

A profile of lobbyist Andrew Kingman, who has exerted immense influence on US tech policy by helping large companies that want lax rules on data privacy (www.politico.com)
2024-9-19

Sources: LobbyMatic, which offers AI tools for lobbying, is covertly run by far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons, including Jacob Wohl (www.politico.com)
2024-9-2 AI Conspiracy Far-right

In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and he'd “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he did it again (www.politico.com)
2024-8-29 Trump Zuckerberg

Google and the state of California strike a deal to jointly contribute $125M+ over five years to support local news; it also includes support for an AI project (www.politico.com)
2024-8-22 Google AI California

Trump campaign says some of its internal communications were hacked, citing a Microsoft report that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email” to a campaign (www.politico.com)
2024-8-11 Trump Microsoft Iran

A look at Operation Intering, an FBI-led sabotage campaign in the 1980s to secretly ship millions worth of faulty chips to the Soviet Bloc (www.politico.com)
2024-8-5 FBI

Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Nvidia's acquisition of Israeli AI infrastructure orchestration and management service Run:ai on antitrust grounds (www.politico.com)
2024-8-2 Israel AI Nvidia

Some in Silicon Valley hope Kamala Harris would provide a chance for a reset, after years of bipartisan criticism in Washington DC toward big tech companies (www.politico.com)
2024-7-24

Sources: the US DOJ plans to sue RealPage by the end of the summer, accusing the company of selling software that allows landlords to collude on setting rents (www.politico.com)
2024-7-13

Y Combinator and 140 AI startups sign a letter opposing California's AI safety bill, saying the bill could harm California's ability to retain its AI talent (www.politico.com)
2024-6-24 Startup AI Y Combinator California

Snap agrees to a $15M settlement with California after a three-year probe into employees' allegations of discrimination, retaliation, and sexual harassment (www.politico.com)
2024-6-20 California

WhatsApp Channels, which has 500M+ MAUs, relies on community guidelines to tackle election interference, instead of specific rules like on Facebook or Threads (www.politico.com)
2024-6-8 Facebook WhatsApp

Donald Trump's campaign joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban; a TikTok official says there's a 2:1 ratio of pro-Trump versus pro-Biden content on the app (www.politico.com)
2024-6-2 Trump Ban

YC is lobbying in Washington to support “Little Tech” over concerns that AI regulations meant to head off harms will instead help Big Tech maintain its lead (www.politico.com)
2024-6-1 AI

California Governor Gavin Newsom warns against perils of over-regulating AI, sending a signal to the state's lawmakers who are advancing dozens of AI bills (www.politico.com)
2024-5-30 AI California

Congress has quietly diverted $3.5B from the US CHIPS Act to Secure Enclave, a classified project proposed by Intel to build chips for defense needs (www.politico.com)
2024-5-26 Intel

How Vermont lawmakers passed a strict online data privacy law despite significant pushback from the tech industry; GOP Gov. Phil Scott is yet to sign the bill (www.politico.com)
2024-5-19 Republican

US lawmakers are watching to see whether Colorado's bill for regulating AI, modeled on Connecticut's now derailed bill, can withstand the tech lobby pressure (www.politico.com)
2024-5-16 AI

How Trump is courting crypto traders, as GOP becomes increasingly friendly toward crypto while key Democrats remain at odds and SEC cracks down on the industry (www.politico.com)
2024-5-12 Trump Democrat Republican

Sources: tech lobbying group NetChoice has kicked TikTok off of its membership after facing pressure from the office of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (www.politico.com)
2024-5-10

A look at the US and EU's dueling approaches to rein in Big Tech, splitting tech companies' attention by miring them in separate legal and enforcement battles (www.politico.com)
2024-5-6

How bills under consideration in various US states to address AI bias contain loopholes that would make companies avoiding accountability easier (www.politico.com)
2024-5-1 AI

Sources: the US FTC is investigating TikTok over allegedly faulty privacy and data security practices, and could bring a lawsuit or settlement within weeks (www.politico.com)
2024-3-27

AOC, Sanders unveil ‘Green New Deal' for housing (www.politico.com)
2024-3-23 Real Estate

The US House passes a bill to prevent data brokers from selling personal data to China, Russia or other “foreign adversaries”; the bill now heads to the Senate (www.politico.com)
2024-3-21 Russia China Senate

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