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Articles from www.politico.com

A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on Thursday; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary (www.politico.com)
2026-5-24 Trump AI

Sources: David Sacks told President Trump that federal reviews of AI models before release would slow down innovation and hurt the US in its AI race with China (www.politico.com)
2026-5-22 Trump China AI

Sources: the Pentagon is launching a task force to study how to safely deploy leading AI tools with hacking capabilities across Cyber Command and NSA missions (www.politico.com)
2026-5-21 AI Pentagon

OpenAI's Chris Lehane says he is pursuing “reverse federalism”, lobbying blue states to pass AI safety laws and create a de facto US standard, as DC dithers (www.politico.com)
2026-5-21 AI

Hill County, which faced eight new data centers, passed what may be Texas' first county-wide ban on them, for one year; the state trails only VA in data centers (www.politico.com)
2026-5-17 Ban Texas

Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's use of models (www.politico.com)
2026-5-6 AI EOS

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Dave McCormick introduce a bill banning members of the legislative and executive branches from trading on prediction markets (www.politico.com)
2026-5-1

Senate Democrats seek an ethics provision in a landmark crypto bill to crack down on the Trump family's crypto businesses, setting up a clash with Republicans (www.politico.com)
2026-4-28 Trump Democrat Republican Senate

Sean Plankey, President Trump's pick to lead CISA, withdraws from consideration after resistance from Sen. Rick Scott stalled his nomination for over a year (www.politico.com)
2026-4-23 Trump

Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban (www.politico.com)
2026-4-15 Trump Ban

Voters in Festus, Missouri, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection last week, days after the council's approval of a $6B data center (www.politico.com)
2026-4-14

The CIA says it recently used AI to create its first-ever autonomous intelligence report, and plans to build “AI co-workers” into all of its analytic platforms (www.politico.com)
2026-4-10 AI Intelligence

The White House's latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws stalls as multiple Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan play (www.politico.com)
2026-4-4 AI Democrat

Sources: the FBI has declared a recent China-linked hack of a system, which contained pen register and trap and trace surveillance returns, a “major incident” (www.politico.com)
2026-4-2 China FBI

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (www.politico.com)
2026-4-1 Ban

Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; the staffers arranged a polygraph for CISA's former acting director Madhu Gottumukkala that he failed (www.politico.com)
2026-3-29

Despite Anthropic winning a ruling against the DOD in California, it must still convince the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the supply chain risk label (www.politico.com)
2026-3-28 California

Q&A with New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez about the New Mexico and LA social media trials, Big Tech's “Big Tobacco” moment, what it means for Congress, and more (www.politico.com)
2026-3-27 Mexico

The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requirements for AI models, and more (www.politico.com)
2026-3-21 AI

During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel says FBI does purchase “commercially available information” that can be used to track people's location history (www.politico.com)
2026-3-19 FBI Senate

Q&A with Ted Sarandos on his visit to Brussels, Netflix's European investments, EU regulation, YouTube, TikTok, WBD, Trump's Susan Rice criticism, AI, and more (www.politico.com)
2026-3-17 Trump Europe AI YouTube Netflix

Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir (www.politico.com)
2026-3-8 AI Democrat

Sources: President Trump met with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on March 3 before publicly admonishing banks over the GENIUS Act, echoing Coinbase's position (www.politico.com)
2026-3-4 Trump Coinbase

The Pentagon's fight with Anthropic sparks fears in Silicon Valley and the Capitol of a fundamental shift in the balance of power between DC and the AI industry (www.politico.com)
2026-3-1 AI Pentagon

OpenAI says it will overhaul safety protocols and establish direct contact with Canadian police, after not alerting authorities about the Tumbler Ridge suspect (www.politico.com)
2026-2-27 Canada

Some AI policymakers and lawyers warn that DOD's threats to Anthropic are contradictory and could chill partnerships between the government and Silicon Valley (www.politico.com)
2026-2-27 AI

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

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