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Sources: the White House is drafting a voluntary pact seeking commitments from tech companies to ensure data centers don't raise electricity prices and more (www.politico.com)
2026-2-10

How Oura won over DC by growing its lobbying spend to $1M+ per year, as RFK Jr. touts wearables for health and the US DOD makes the rings an employee benefit (www.politico.com)
2026-2-10

Amazon's annual tax bill fell 87% YoY to $1.2B in 2025, as profits grew 45% to ~$90B, mostly due to GOP's depreciation breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill (www.politico.com)
2026-2-7 Amazon Tax Republican

Meta gives $65M to two super PACs to elect California state candidates, regardless of party, whom it views as supportive of the AI and tech industry (www.politico.com)
2026-2-3 AI California

Sources: the interim director of CISA, Madhu Gottumukkala, triggered automated security warnings last summer by uploading sensitive documents to ChatGPT (www.politico.com)
2026-1-28

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will launch a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring content critical of President Donald Trump (www.politico.com)
2026-1-27 Trump California

A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns (www.politico.com)
2026-1-22 Canada

Sources: political appointees at the US CISA blocked Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala's attempt to oust the agency's Chief Information Officer Robert Costello (www.politico.com)
2026-1-19

California AG Rob Bonta launches an investigation into xAI over the proliferation of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by Grok (www.politico.com)
2026-1-15 California

President Trump renominates Sean Plankey to be the next director of CISA, which has been running without a full-time chief since Trump's return to office (www.politico.com)
2026-1-14 Trump

Gov. Gavin Newsom has engaged in months of negotiations to neutralize a proposed California wealth tax ballot initiative; a compromise does not appear imminent (www.politico.com)
2026-1-14 Tax California

Utah launches a pilot program with health-tech startup Doctronic to let AI systems handle routine prescription renewals for patients with chronic conditions (www.politico.com)
2026-1-8 Startup AI

A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and data centers, as pro-business Democrats oppose the fiery, anti-AI politics of the progressive wing (www.politico.com)
2025-12-30 AI Democrat

Federal records show ICE has increased its surveillance tech spending to $300M+ under Trump, as the White House lowered privacy guardrails around citizens' data (www.politico.com)
2025-12-27 Trump

Over the past month, the US paused talks on a tech pact with the UK, canceled a South Korea trade meeting, and threatened the EU over Big Tech regulations (www.politico.com)
2025-12-24 Korea

Sources: The US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA staffers who were suspended in July misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph, which he failed (www.politico.com)
2025-12-22

Sources: tech lobbyists say that David Sacks' push for an EO blocking state AI laws undercut their efforts to craft a permanent, bipartisan federal solution (www.politico.com)
2025-12-22 AI

Analysis: since 2023, data center power demands have delayed 15 coal plants' retirements; the Trump administration has ordered two power plants to remain open (www.politico.com)
2025-11-28 Trump

Michael Grimes, a tech banker known for handling Uber and Airbnb's IPOs, is leading Trump's new investment accelerator, amid legal and congressional uncertainty (www.politico.com)
2025-11-3 Trump IPO Uber Airbnb

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 771, which would've fined social media companies if their algorithms intentionally promoted violent or extremist content (www.politico.com)
2025-10-14 Algorithm California

Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 1043, which requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google, Meta, and OpenAI supported the bill (www.politico.com)
2025-10-14 Google

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 56, which requires social media companies to add warning labels on mental health risks for users under 18 in the state (www.politico.com)
2025-10-14 California

Q&A with journalist Jacob Silverman on his new book Gilded Rage, the radical politics of certain tech elites, AI's impact on Silicon Valley politics, and more (www.politico.com)
2025-10-13 AI

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming platforms like Netflix, the first such law in the US, modeled on a 2010 law (www.politico.com)
2025-10-7 Netflix California

Insiders detail negotiations between politicians, tech and AI companies, VCs, and others over California's SB 53, the first-in-the-nation AI safety law (www.politico.com)
2025-10-6 AI California

Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O'Neill says the Trump administration doesn't support CHAI, an effort by OpenAI, Mayo Clinic, and others to vet AI tools for healthcare (www.politico.com)
2025-10-4 Trump AI

CISA, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down (www.politico.com)
2025-10-4

The White House withdraws Brian Quintenz's nomination to lead the CFTC; the Winklevoss twins pressured Trump in July to reconsider his nomination (www.politico.com)
2025-10-1 Trump CFTC

Interviews with 50+ people detail how the Trump administration seized control of Biden's $7.4B Natcast chips initiative, a move that many consider shortsighted (www.politico.com)
2025-10-1 Trump

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first-in-the-nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes (www.politico.com)
2025-9-30 AI California

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