🚨🚨Top AI execs tell Axios Jim VandeHei & me they're racing to overcome old-fashioned shortages — electricity, computing power, chips, data, engineering talent

This scarcity crisis is among the top threats to America maintaining its AI edge over China 👇axios.com/2024/05/28/ai-…

Happy birthday to the absolute best newsletter co-writer, beat partner, friend and general goof, Maria Curi! Thankful for our Aries Gemini energy and youuuu! 🤓❤️✍️

NEW from me & Maria Curi: Privacy bill is facing uphill battle. Scalise, Emmer & Johnson can’t support in current form (includes preemption of state laws and ability for folks to sue for violations). Gonna be a battle for it to get to the floor. More here: axios.com/pro/tech-polic…

We scooped this at Axios Pro Tech Policy on May 6 Maria Curi axios.com/pro/tech-polic…

SCOOP: Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are talking at length about plans for next year, a strong sign that the former president sees the speaker as more than an interim caretaker. trib.al/NPKVDZn

Conservative operatives pour $1M+ into new Capitol Hill news outlet
Story on ⁦Axios⁩: axios.com/2024/05/14/con…

🚨🚨AI election bills getting a markup🚨🚨

Am reading the TikTok v. Garland complaint. 1/ 🧵

Catch my Marketplace segment about the end of the ACP today, airing nationally on NPR affiliates at 2:35 pm EST!

More importantly it will be my birthday

FAA/tech update: Markey will try to attach his bill to protect kids online but Cantwell told reporters R + D leaders don't want anything unrelated to aviation on there.

She does not plan to file an amendment for her spectrum/ACP bill.

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Exclusive: Biden admin, tech giants launch women in CHIPS construction effort

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THURS| Axios Tech Policy Reporter Maria Curi (Maria Curi) discusses the U.S. potentially banning the social media app TikTok.

Watch live at 9:00am ET!

🗓 JUNE 5: #AxiosAISummit heads to NYC for #TechWeek in partnership with Tech:NYC.

Join us for a day of immersive experiences and exciting convos with the leading minds shaping AI's future.

Request an invite to attend: trib.al/aXb9xWg

For my friends who've frantically asked me in the past week 'what's going to happen to TikTok!?' — this one is for you: theverge.com/24141539/tikto…

What led to TikTok's Washington fumble axios.com/pro/tech-polic…

SCOOP: A top First Amendment law firm is assembling a lawsuit of creators and small businesses to fight a U.S. ban on TikTok.

The firm, Davis Wright Tremaine, also sued Montana over its TikTok ban last year and thwarted Trump’s push to ban the app in 2020:forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

EXCLUSIVE: The ACLU is suing the NSA, DoD and ODNI for records about how they're using AI in their surveillance programs.
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The FCC voted along party lines to treat internet companies like utilities, clearing the way for heightened scrutiny on the industry. trib.al/afHuiVI

How data privacy made it into the foreign aid package trib.al/T4KQ0am