AI is making Google search more useful for consumers.

That's awesome.

Unfortunately, laws like EU's Digital Markets Act and bills like Amy Klobuchar's AICOA aim to freeze Google search in place and halt this kind of innovation.

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2. Our new survey does not find big majorities opposed to upzoning for market-rate housing. Just not much of a constituency for it.

Opinions on MR housing are also less stable than opinions on price controls.

Which suggests that there's room for persuasion on MR housing.
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If you missed today's live press conference on Colorado's AI legislation, it's not too late to tune in.

Check out the full video from today's panel, with tech and local business leaders calling on Governor Jared Polis to veto SB 205.
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Complying with AI transparency provisions is unfeasibly costly for most small businesses.

Minerva founder Dr. Kelly Kinnebrew highlights how these measures will entangle startups like hers in red tape and liability.

It's Day 2 in MA’s gig work trial against Uber & Lyft and we wrapped up testimony from the government’s first witness, Daniel Liestra Jones, who was designated as a financial analysis expert.

Yesterday, Chair CathyMcMorrisRodgers and Ranking Member Rep. Frank Pallone of Energy & Commerce Democrats 'issued an ultimatum' (or “took a hostage” depending on what you read) to sunset #Section230 to force dominant platforms to the table on data privacy and kids’ safety.

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Mr. Governor, please veto SB 205. Cc: Jared Polis

with misguided ideas about abolishing Section 230 floating in DC today, it's worth re-reading this excellent Daniel Jeffries essay from 2022 on, 'Why We’ll Hate Section 230’s Repeal and Why It Will Screw Both Left and Right the Same.' He nails it here:

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Founders like Logan Cerkovnik of thumper ai are sounding the alarm on how S.B. 205's overly-broad definitions will stifle AI innovation across the startup economy.

Because autonomous vehicles are designed to avoid human error, they save lives. New research from Kaitlyn Harger of Chamber of Progress finds the technology could have saved over 500 lives and stopped 83,000 injuries in New York over the last five years.

Meanwhile, New York State…

.Eric Goldman (he/him) is right about the new 'sunset 230' bill.

The only thing that Pallone and Rodgers agree on is that they dislike 230.

But the moment you ask them how they would change it, their agreement will fall apart.

That's why they didn't propose a change.

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MLex's Jean Comte is reporting that Member States are discussing amendments to 'open' finance rules that would limit companies designated as gatekeepers (under the #DMA ) from competing against incumbent financial services providers (paywalled) content.mlex.com/#/content/1562…

There are two types of people in this world — those who see this & think “trash” & those who think “banana bread” — & they marry each other.

If you visualize the American workforce as 500 workers, roughly:
39 of them work in manufacturing,
24 of them in construction, and
8 of them in mining/agriculture/fishing combined.
So that’s 71 out of 500 workers in goods-producing jobs. The other 429 are in services. 1/5

Canceling student debt has always been a bigger priority of the left-leaning D political staffer class than it has been for actual swing voters in swing states