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fromwww.theguardian.com
14 hours ago

Gavin Newsom pushes back on Trump AI executive order preempting state laws

The executive order preempts state AI regulation, favors tech companies, and triggers legal, political, and advocacy pushback centered in California.
fromThe Nation
1 day ago

Corporate Democrats Are Foolishly Surrendering the AI Fight

One of the covers for the Time issue is a painting by Jason Seiler that repurposes the iconic 1932 photograph Lunch atop a Skyscraper (whose photographer remains anonymous). The original photo shows a group of ironworkers jauntily eating lunch on a steel beam during the construction of Rockefeller Center, seemingly oblivious to the fact that they are 850 feet above the ground.
US politics
from48 hills
1 month ago

The billionaires really are running SF - 48 hills

"I'm going to lay out a hypothesis about why Trump's suddenly backing away from a crackdown in San Francisco (and possibly the rest of the Bay Area): 1) this place is organized, and 2) the wealthy, powerful people Trump listens to are especially vulnerable to organizing-driven-polarization. Two weeks ago, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff publicly mused that sending the National Guard to SF was a good idea. Now he's privately talking Trump out of it."
US politics
US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Donald Trump backtracks on plans to surge' military to San Francisco

President Donald Trump credited tech billionaires Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff for persuading him to delay a planned National Guard surge to San Francisco.
UK politics
fromTruthout
3 months ago

Farage's Visit to DC Underscores Alliance Between Far Right and Tech Titans

Far-right politicians and allied tech figures portray deregulation and opposition to online content rules as a defense of free speech to resist new censorship laws.
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