Tech's scared of the RAISE Act - by Shakeel Hashim

Transformer Weekly: The RAISE Act, the RISE Act, and a whole lot of lobbying

Welcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. If you’ve been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions. Top stories With the RAISE Act having passed the New York legislature, lobbying efforts to kill it are ramping up. The Chamber of Progress recently called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to veto the bill, claiming that it would “be an eviction notice” for New York’s AI startups. That’s despite the fact that the bill “only applies to the largest AI companies that have spent over $100 million in computational resources to train advanced AI…

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