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AI’s next big blue battleground - by Veronica Irwin
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There’s a lot going on in Illinois
AI’s next big blue battleground There’s a lot going on in Illinois Veronica Irwin Mar 26, 2026 8 4 1 Share A few weeks back, I got a tip: accelerationist AI lobbyists and industry representatives were said to be in talks with state assembly leadership in Illinois to bend pending AI legislation making its way through the legislature towards their ‘light-touch’ preferences. It sounded like the replay of battles that happened in California and NY: in each state, lawmakers had drawn up stringent AI regulations only for them to be weakened (and in the case of California, rivaled by a more light-tou
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