@ashleyrgold.bsky.social
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NEW w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social: The White House is floating an executive order to rein in state AI laws
Meanwhile, Congress is scrambling to find a way to include language in the must-pass defense bill
www.axios.com/2025/11/19/t...
Meanwhile, Congress is scrambling to find a way to include language in the must-pass defense bill
www.axios.com/2025/11/19/t...
White House floats executive order to override state AI laws
The White House can't preempt state level regulation — that's Congress' job.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
NEW w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social: The White House is floating an executive order to rein in state AI laws
Meanwhile, Congress is scrambling to find a way to include language in the must-pass defense bill
www.axios.com/2025/11/19/t...
Meanwhile, Congress is scrambling to find a way to include language in the must-pass defense bill
www.axios.com/2025/11/19/t...
Barely made it to Lisbon in time, but had a great talk with @rose.bsky.team and Hootsuite’s Irina Novoselsky @websummit.bsky.social!
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Barely made it to Lisbon in time, but had a great talk with @rose.bsky.team and Hootsuite’s Irina Novoselsky @websummit.bsky.social!
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Scoop: The Trump administration's slashing of the federal workforce amid the government shutdown is threatening AI work at the Commerce Department
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@ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/10/16/t...
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@ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/10/16/t...
Scoop: Trump firings could derail AI action plan
The Trump administration's slashing of the federal workforce amid the shutdown is threatening AI work at the Commerce Department.
www.axios.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Scoop: The Trump administration's slashing of the federal workforce amid the government shutdown is threatening AI work at the Commerce Department
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@ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/10/16/t...
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@ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/10/16/t...
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Trump agencies turn up heat on culture wars. Critics say recents moves ignore precedent, congressional mandates and would not stand judicial review.
w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social & @sarafischer.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social & @sarafischer.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
Trump agencies turn up heat on culture wars
Trump agencies turn up the heat on culture wars.
www.axios.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump agencies turn up heat on culture wars. Critics say recents moves ignore precedent, congressional mandates and would not stand judicial review.
w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social & @sarafischer.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social & @sarafischer.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
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SCOOP w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social: What's inside Trump's 20-page AI action plan. +EOs on "woke" AI, exports and infrastructure in the works.
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
Scoop: What's inside Trump's 20-page AI action plan
What's inside President Trump's upcoming 20-page AI action plan.
www.axios.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
SCOOP w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social: What's inside Trump's 20-page AI action plan. +EOs on "woke" AI, exports and infrastructure in the works.
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
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Scoop: The 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation is now called "a temporary pause" in the reconciliation bill approved by the Senate parliamentarian. Critics say it's just as damaging and sweeps in all $42 billion in broadband funds.
w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
Scoop: AI moratorium rebranded "temporary pause"
A 10-year freeze on state AI regulations has been updated in the Senate reconciliation bill as it inches closer to the finish line.
www.axios.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Scoop: The 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation is now called "a temporary pause" in the reconciliation bill approved by the Senate parliamentarian. Critics say it's just as damaging and sweeps in all $42 billion in broadband funds.
w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
w/ @ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
Confirming report in Germany’s Handelsblatt w/ some new detail - (first to report this in English I think!) - Apple and Meta being hit with the first ever DMA fines tomorrow t.co/yDA1wRx8KB
April 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Confirming report in Germany’s Handelsblatt w/ some new detail - (first to report this in English I think!) - Apple and Meta being hit with the first ever DMA fines tomorrow t.co/yDA1wRx8KB
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Google loses online advertising monopoly case
Google loses online advertising monopoly case
It's Google's second big recent loss in a monopoly case.
www.axios.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Google loses online advertising monopoly case
Scoop: DOGE staffers including top Musk lieutenant Gavin Kliger now have offices at the FTC www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
Scoop: DOGE staffers move into FTC office
Two DOGE staffers now have offices at the FTC.
www.axios.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Scoop: DOGE staffers including top Musk lieutenant Gavin Kliger now have offices at the FTC www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
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Steve Jobs and Tim Cook built the most successful and arguably most beloved U.S. company for the last 25 years on a foundation of open trade, particularly with China.
Trump has now set about torching the whole arrangement.
Trump has now set about torching the whole arrangement.
Trump tariffs shake foundations of Apple's iPhone empire
Big taxes on imports from China disrupt the basic deal that makes Tim Cook's world hum.
www.axios.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Steve Jobs and Tim Cook built the most successful and arguably most beloved U.S. company for the last 25 years on a foundation of open trade, particularly with China.
Trump has now set about torching the whole arrangement.
Trump has now set about torching the whole arrangement.
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“If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash. .. A 1929-style depression. When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand new Trump economic boom.”
- Trump, 8/14/24
- Trump, 8/14/24
April 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash. .. A 1929-style depression. When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand new Trump economic boom.”
- Trump, 8/14/24
- Trump, 8/14/24
A peek inside the left and right's shaky antitrust coalition -- dispatch from inside the buzzy @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy summit in DC that managed to put Lina Khan, Steve Bannon and Cory Booker in the same room
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
A peek inside the left and right's shaky antitrust coalition
The tent of people on both sides of the aisle who want to bring down incumbent tech firms is big.
www.axios.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A peek inside the left and right's shaky antitrust coalition -- dispatch from inside the buzzy @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy summit in DC that managed to put Lina Khan, Steve Bannon and Cory Booker in the same room
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the State Department may have already revoked more than 300 visas as the Trump administration pushes a sweeping immigration crackdown.
Rubio says U.S. may have pulled more than 300 visas
"Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa," he said at a press conference.
www.axios.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the State Department may have already revoked more than 300 visas as the Trump administration pushes a sweeping immigration crackdown.
They say it goes beyond the FTC:
Commissioner Slaughter and I just sued to clarify that we're still FTC commissioners. But this is bigger than us. This is about economic stability. If the President can break a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to fire us for no reason, he can do it to the Fed, the FDIC and SEC.
March 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
They say it goes beyond the FTC:
Breaking: @bedoyaftc.bsky.social & Rebecca Slaughter sue Trump admin after being fired as Dem FTC commissioners t.co/lgJ8e2Mh5x
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025/03/27/fired-democratic-ftc-commissioners-sue-trump-administration
t.co
March 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Breaking: @bedoyaftc.bsky.social & Rebecca Slaughter sue Trump admin after being fired as Dem FTC commissioners t.co/lgJ8e2Mh5x
Come join us in DC or watch!
I'm here in DC today to talk about Anthropic's Economic Index research on AI and work on a panel moderated by @ashleyrgold.bsky.social at AEI.
Come join in-person or tune in virtually: www.aei.org/events/ai-an...
Come join in-person or tune in virtually: www.aei.org/events/ai-an...
www.aei.org
March 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Come join us in DC or watch!
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If you're wondering what's next for the CHIPS Act after Trump trashed it last night --
DOC head Lutnick is considering getting rid of "woke" labor and childcare requirements to cut costs. Agency will meet with lawmakers to discuss.
Scoop w @ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
DOC head Lutnick is considering getting rid of "woke" labor and childcare requirements to cut costs. Agency will meet with lawmakers to discuss.
Scoop w @ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
Scoop: Commerce floats changes to CHIPS Act
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is brainstorming how to rework the CHIPS and Science Act as President Trump trashes it.
www.axios.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If you're wondering what's next for the CHIPS Act after Trump trashed it last night --
DOC head Lutnick is considering getting rid of "woke" labor and childcare requirements to cut costs. Agency will meet with lawmakers to discuss.
Scoop w @ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
DOC head Lutnick is considering getting rid of "woke" labor and childcare requirements to cut costs. Agency will meet with lawmakers to discuss.
Scoop w @ashleyrgold.bsky.social
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
Rep. Zoe Lofgren said DOGE should work with the House Science Committee, others: "Come to the committees of jurisdiction who have oversight on these programs ... and work in a collaborative way. If we can't afford everything, work with us on what is most important."
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
What we're hearing: House Science leaders on DOGE
Elon Musk's DOGE could transform the scientific ecosystem.
www.axios.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Rep. Zoe Lofgren said DOGE should work with the House Science Committee, others: "Come to the committees of jurisdiction who have oversight on these programs ... and work in a collaborative way. If we can't afford everything, work with us on what is most important."
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
Talk to me about what’s going on with staffers working on tech and AI in the government:
February 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Talk to me about what’s going on with staffers working on tech and AI in the government:
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Sources: NIST plans to cut 497 people, including 74 postdocs and most staff at its Chips for America program; the AI Safety Institute faces an uncertain future (Axios)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
February 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sources: NIST plans to cut 497 people, including 74 postdocs and most staff at its Chips for America program; the AI Safety Institute faces an uncertain future (Axios)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Scoop: NIST prepares to cut AI Safety Institute, CHIPS staff
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
Scoop: NIST prepares to cut AI Safety Institute, CHIPS staff
NIST probationary employees are bracing to be fired imminently.
www.axios.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Scoop: NIST prepares to cut AI Safety Institute, CHIPS staff
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
Downsizing and major shifts at federal agencies will disrupt or altogether scuttle privacy-related work as Congress lags on passing comprehensive protections for Americans www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
DOGE dismantles privacy amid congressional inaction
Downsizing and major shifts at federal agencies will disrupt privacy work.
www.axios.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Downsizing and major shifts at federal agencies will disrupt or altogether scuttle privacy-related work as Congress lags on passing comprehensive protections for Americans www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...
i finally joined bluesky
February 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
i finally joined bluesky