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Articles from www.politico.com

California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation (www.politico.com)
1 day ago California

A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a US AI regulator in a call with Trump last month; another source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance (www.politico.com)
2 days ago Trump AI Zuckerberg

Trump says communities that reject data centers will end up “backwards and poor” and that “China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement” (www.politico.com)
5 days ago Trump China

Sources: the Trump administration is weighing sweeping new tariffs on chips and other products like laptops and consoles, despite warnings from tech companies (www.politico.com)
9 days ago Trump

OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks (www.politico.com)
15 days ago AI California

Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch (www.politico.com)
18 days ago AI

OpenAI VP of Global Policy Ann O'Leary says AI policy in the US is anchored in the states and informed by California's AI transparency law passed last year (www.politico.com)
24 days ago AI California

The Clarity Act faces uncertainty after Senate Republicans delayed a vote until after their August recess, pushing it to September, just weeks before midterms (www.politico.com)
29 days ago Republican Senate

Bipartisan House lawmakers introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would grant the US DHS authority to shut down or throttle AI models that it deems dangerous (www.politico.com)
2026-7-23 AI

The Little Tech Association, a new group of ~200 companies across the startup community, including Y Combinator, urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight AI (www.politico.com)
2026-7-23 Trump China Startup AI Ban Y Combinator

Filings: Dario Amodei gave $1M in May to Public First, a super PAC advocating for AI safety regulations, seemingly his first seven-figure political donation (www.politico.com)
2026-7-16 AI

How Anthropic is pursuing a state-by-state push for ever-tougher AI safety laws, in contrast with OpenAI's “reverse federalism” strategy for common state rules (www.politico.com)
2026-7-15 AI

Gavin Newsom is tempering his pro-tech instincts with economic populism ahead of a likely presidential bid, proposing giving Americans equity in AI companies (www.politico.com)
2026-7-15 U.S. AI Equity

AI advocates fear New York's moratorium on new data centers could embolden Democrats to enact more state restrictions and seize on the issue in the midterms (www.politico.com)
2026-7-15 AI Democrat New York

Sources: multiple GOP governors and large utilities are expected to join Trump's pledge for data center developers to cover their energy use and infrastructure (www.politico.com)
2026-7-15 Trump Energy Republican

Pitch document: Chris Larsen and Palmer Luckey invested an undisclosed amount in APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the son of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (www.politico.com)
2026-7-3 APEC

Sources: the Trump administration plans to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 as early as Tuesday evening, making it available to all general users (www.politico.com)
2026-7-1 Trump

California strikes a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across state agencies and local governments at a 50% discount (www.politico.com)
2026-6-30 California

AI executives and lobbyists say they are seeking regulatory clarity from the Trump administration but are wary of pressing for answers, fearing retaliation (www.politico.com)
2026-6-28 Trump AI

Sources: Meta lobbyists are urging California lawmakers to exempt social media platforms from legislation that would increase penalties in child-harm cases (www.politico.com)
2026-6-27 California

Sources: the White House and Anthropic are working on a framework that would assess the severity of AI security flaws, a sign that negotiations are progressing (www.politico.com)
2026-6-19 AI

Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was packaged with language preempting state AI laws and a bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages (www.politico.com)
2026-6-17 AI

Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been formally briefed on Trump's Fable 5 move, including Ted Cruz, whose commerce committee can shape AI policy (www.politico.com)
2026-6-17 Trump AI

US officials: the Trump administration's decision to impose export controls on Anthropic followed multiple tense calls between Dario Amodei and admin officials (www.politico.com)
2026-6-14 Trump

The US DOJ approves Paramount's $111B purchase of WBD without forcing divestitures or behavioral remedies; state AGs could still try to block the move (www.politico.com)
2026-6-13

The US House fails to extend FISA's Section 702, ensuring the warrantless surveillance program will expire for the first time since its 2008 enactment (www.politico.com)
2026-6-12

Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans (www.politico.com)
2026-6-5 AI

OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA (www.politico.com)
2026-6-4 Trump AI

President Trump signs a scaled-back AI EO that seeks to address AI's cybersecurity threats; sources say it imposes less scrutiny on AI than the scrapped version (www.politico.com)
2026-6-3 Trump AI

Sources detail AI companies' engagement with US FERC as the energy regulator readies a June proposal to speed up data center connections to regional power grids (www.politico.com)
2026-5-30 Energy AI

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