Oma Seddiq
Tech Policy Reporter, Capitol Hill at Bloomberg Government
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1 day ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Oma Seddiq |Robin Meszoly |Michaela Ross
Republicans moved forward with reauthorizing spectrum sales to internet companies to generate billions of dollars that would help fund President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax cuts and spending bill. The House Energy and Commerce Committee early Wednesday advanced the communications and technology portion of the GOP-only measure that aims to extend Trump’s tax breaks from his first term and fulfill his border security, defense, and energy agenda.
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news.bgov.com | Oma Seddiq |Zach Williams |Titus Wu
Democratic state policymakers are fiercely criticizing a House GOP push to block states from regulating artificial intelligence—a legislative maneuver they say would expose more Americans to harms posed by the technology and amount to federal overreach. “House Republicans are turning a blind eye to the real harms AI is already causing, especially discrimination, and trying to dismantle the only real protections Americans have: the ones states are actively advancing,” Vermont Rep.
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news.bloomberglaw.com | Oma Seddiq |Zach Williams |Titus Wu
Proposed 10-year halt on enforcing state laws restricting AIDemocratic state lawmakers decry move as federal overreachDemocratic state policymakers are fiercely criticizing a House GOP push to block states from regulating artificial intelligence—a legislative maneuver they say would expose more Americans to harms posed by the technology and amount to federal overreach.
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1 day ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Oma Seddiq |Zach Williams |Titus Wu
Democratic state policymakers are fiercely criticizing a House GOP push to block states from regulating artificial intelligence—a legislative maneuver they say would expose more Americans to harms posed by the technology and amount to federal overreach. “House Republicans are turning a blind eye to the real harms AI is already causing, especially discrimination, and trying to dismantle the only real protections Americans have: the ones states are actively advancing,” Vermont Rep.
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6 days ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Oma Seddiq |Jamie Tarabay
The leaders of some of the biggest technology and artificial intelligence companies appeared before Congress on Thursday with a wish list of sorts that at its top has doing away with regulations they say inhibit their firms’ growth and, by default, sends business to China. “It is very hard to say how far ahead we are, but I would say not a huge amount of time,” OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said at the hearing in response to a question about whether the US or China is winning in AI.
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