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Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With midterms looming, the White House is proposing a shotgun marriage between child safety and AI boosters With midterms looming, the White House is proposing a shotgun marriage between child safety and AI boosters Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For months, Big Tech’s Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. Their dream would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run into roadblocks and incurred nationwide political blowback, and they now face the possibility that after the midterms, Congress will flip to hostile Democrats unwilling to work with them. But their final, most desperate attempt at preemption is coming with new baggag

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