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Articles from www.politico.com

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

A US judge temporarily orders Meta not to respond to DHS subpoenas seeking Instagram users' info after their accounts posted an ICE agent's name (www.politico.com)
2025-9-20 Instagram

Tech executives say the Trump administration's stake in Intel and its intervention into other private businesses have had a chilling effect on decision-making (www.politico.com)
2025-9-16 Trump Intel

How California reached a deal to let ride-hailing drivers unionize while reducing insurance requirements for Uber and Lyft, ending years of costly legal fights (www.politico.com)
2025-9-16 Uber Insurance California

California passes SB 53, which requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes; Newsom vetoed a similar though more expansive measure last year (www.politico.com)
2025-9-14 AI California

California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it (www.politico.com)
2025-9-14 Google California

CFTC nominee Brian Quintenz says the Winklevosses asked Trump to pause his confirmation after he refused to make promises “rectifying” a prior Gemini settlement (www.politico.com)
2025-9-11 Trump CFTC

As the Pentagon rushes to deploy AI into its weapons systems, some experts fear humans can't keep pace with AI's aggressive tendency to escalate in a crisis (www.politico.com)
2025-9-4 AI Pentagon

A six-year US effort to counter Chinese telecom dominance took a hit after the One Big Beautiful Bill cut ~$1B from a program aimed at developing Open RAN tech (www.politico.com)
2025-9-3 China

Meta plans to spend tens of millions to launch a super PAC that will back candidates for California state offices with a light-touch approach to AI regulation (www.politico.com)
2025-8-27 AI California

A look at OpenAI's campaign over the past year to secure its transition from a nonprofit, led by a team of Democratic insiders in California (www.politico.com)
2025-8-18 California

A senior US official says the recent hack of the US federal court filing system is a continuation of “rudimentary security issues” persisting since 2020 (www.politico.com)
2025-8-13

Sources: the US federal judiciary's electronic case filing system was hit in a sweeping hack, potentially compromising the identities of confidential informants (www.politico.com)
2025-8-7

A US federal judge strikes down a California law blocking large platforms from hosting deceptive AI-generated content related to elections, citing Section 230 (www.politico.com)
2025-8-7 AI California

The AI Action Plan suggests Trump wants to inculcate a “try-first” culture through regulatory sandboxes for AI, which have already popped up in some US states (www.politico.com)
2025-7-27 Trump AI

SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law (www.politico.com)
2025-6-28 Texas

Sources: the White House recently rejected the DOD's recommendation to nominate Army Lt. Gen. Richard Angle as director of the NSA and head of US Cyber Command (www.politico.com)
2025-6-22

Memo: the Trump admin pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls requiring all foreign students applying to study in the US to undergo social media vetting (www.politico.com)
2025-5-28 Trump

Sen. Wyden says AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile failed to create systems for notifying about surveillance on Senate-issued devices, despite a requirement to do so (www.politico.com)
2025-5-22 Mobile AT&T Senate

A profile of Gail Slater, the head of the DOJ's antitrust unit who has become the leader of the MAGA antitrust movement over Big Tech “censorship” concerns (www.politico.com)
2025-5-10

Environmental groups: xAI's Memphis plant now has ~35 gas turbines, and xAI has no Clean Air Act permits; Elon Musk said turbines were necessary to train Grok 3 (www.politico.com)
2025-5-7 Elon Musk

After lobbying US Congress to shelve the Senate-passed KOSA bill in 2024, Meta has now made headway in lobbying for an app store age-verification bill (www.politico.com)
2025-4-21 Senate

Sources: the US DOD's Defense Digital Service is effectively shutting down as nearly all staff are resigning, saying they were sidelined by DOGE's efforts (www.politico.com)
2025-4-16

FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the “personal social networking” market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe (www.politico.com)
2025-4-15 Snapchat Instagram WhatsApp

Source: Trump plans to instruct the Commerce Department to launch a Section 232 national security probe into chip imports, which could lead to new tariffs (www.politico.com)
2025-4-14 Trump

Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC could abandon its Meta antitrust case after Zuckerberg's concessions to Trump; the trial is set for April 14 (www.politico.com)
2025-4-7 Trump Zuckerberg Bannon

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