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Watch former FTC official Samuel Levine testify to Senate Judiciary Republicans today about how AI pricing tools are threatening basic economic fairness. “[Surveillance pricing] is only possible because weak privacy protections allow companies to track our behavior and predict how much we can be pushed to pay.” It’s time... show more

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Gov. Polis is vetoing our bill banning surveillance pricing, allowing corporations to keep using your personal data to set prices. We’ll be back next session. The question for the dems running to be our next governor is simple: will you sign it, or side with the companies using our data against us?

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China is our adversary. They are building more power than we are, and then using it to power data centers to advance both economic interests and of course military as well. We can’t let the Chinese beat us in AI. We’ve gotta build more data centers, we’ve gotta build more power. We’ve got a lot ahead of us here because they’re beating us on this. We cannot let this happen.

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