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President Trump is likely to make Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, the White House's AI czar as lawmakers seek guardrails for the booming technology. Politico's Calder McHugh joins with more.

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Why 🦀 TechPublicPolicy picked: Trump likely to make Jay Clayton AI czar; Fetterman and McCormick on regulating tech

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Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) are debuting legislation that would crack down on Flock license-plate-reader cameras.

EFF and @aclu-norcal.bsky.social have demanded records from the Marin County Sheriff’s Office following a news report that it has shared Flock data with out-of-state and federal agencies – a violation of the 2022 settlement of our lawsuit, and of state law.

Amazon is touting its good-neighbor bona fides in an attempt to shore up support for artificial intelligence data centers.

Maryland became the first state to bar grocery stores from using electronic pricing tools to adjust the cost of food items throughout the day, which critics say could enable retailers to unfairly manipulate prices at a time when households are already squeezed by rising costs.