Ashley Gold

With roots on Capitol Hill as a former chief of staff for Sen. Orrin Hatch, Adobe’s Jace Johnson has tracked Washington tech debates for years.

The Senate AI working group’s report likely will come out in May as the chamber faces a tight spring calendar and senators jockey to include various priorities, Maria and Ashley report.

Key lawmakers and advocacy groups are raising concerns over Sen. Maria Cantwell and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ new bipartisan privacy bill.

Key lawmakers and advocacy groups are raising concerns over Sen. Maria Cantwell and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ new bipartisan privacy bill, Ashley and Maria report.

A government win could free app competition, as the DOJ argues, or degrade users’ experience, as Apple maintains.

OMB this morning issued government-wide policy for mitigating AI risks, a major part of President Biden’s AI executive order, Ashley reports.

The Biden administration is headed toward AI executive order milestones that will inform some of the most pressing tech issues on Capitol Hill, Maria reports.

European regulators believe tech giants may not be meeting several Digital Markets Act standards.

The iPhone maker’s practices harm users, developers and competitors, the Justice Department charges.

Senators signaled after a classified briefing on Wednesday that their most likely next step on TikTok will be to hold a hearing.

Civil rights advocates are sounding the alarm over what they call the Biden administration’s flimsy language regulating facial recognition technology, Maria reports.

Supreme Court justices appeared widely skeptical Monday that government officials overstepped in communicating with social media companies about COVID-19 and election misinformation content.

Lawmakers couldn’t help but point out that comprehensive data privacy legislation is going nowhere on the Hill as the TikTok bill cleared the House at breakneck speed on Wednesday, Maria and Ashley report.

TikTok is gearing up for an ugly fight with Congress.

After months of waiting, the Senate confirmed President Biden’s two Republican nominees to the Federal Trade Commission last Thursday.

Data: House Appropriations Committee; Chart: Axios Visuals Lawmakers requested $303 million in the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s budget for projects in their districts, per an Axios analysis of the spending bill.

Lawmakers requested $303 million in the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s budget for projects in their districts, per an Axios analysis of the spending bill.

On Thursday, the European Union is forcing the world’s biggest tech and social media companies to change the way they do business.

AI policy watchers in Washington are hoping Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday will tackle the technology in detail.

AI policy watchers in Washington are hoping President Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night will tackle the game-changing technology in detail, Ashley and Maria report.