"For the past 20-odd issues of Regulator, I've written weekly about the big stories in tech's growing influence in Washington, both as a tool used by politicians to achieve power and as an industry trying to bend the laws in its favor. But over the past year, it's become harder to declare that there's only one big story every week. So many new technologies are the subject of heated political debate - semiconductors, artificial intelligence, crypto, social media, surveillance, just to name a few -"
"So this week, I'm spilling the notes and plotlines I've collected in the course of reporting, as well as some of the most eyebrow-raising stories I've come across. Shockingly, even though the District is virtually iced in, and even outside of the partial shutdown, there's been a lot of action... But obviously, yes, let's talk about the shutdown first. Protracted negotiations alert: The House has narrowly voted to avert a partial g"
Washington's policymaking is highly turbulent because thousands of elected officials, staffers, appointees, lobbyists, corporations, lawyers, journalists, and influencers simultaneously press competing interests. Multiple technologies—including semiconductors, artificial intelligence, crypto, social media, and surveillance—are fueling concurrent, heated political debates that resist being reduced to a single dominant story. Tech functions both as a political tool for power-seeking actors and as an industry attempting to shape favorable regulations. Despite severe winter weather and the strain of a partial government shutdown, numerous regulatory plotlines and surprising stories continue to unfold, and recent House votes narrowly averted a deeper immediate shutdown.
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