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Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber.


A.I.-Driven Chip Crunch Leads to New Rush of Lobbying in Washington.


AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying. https://archive.ph/PASMJ


Doesn't OpenAI have every incentive to destroy HuggingFace?. Just wondering about this, because I don't think I've seen it said plainly. Hugging Face is the place where all us home-labbing AI enthusiasts get our models from.<p>Aka, at the end of the day, OpenAI's likely mortal enemy. It feels like no one is mentioning this point, am I missing something?


Uber's robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo.


Uber is lobbying to keep robotaxi rides 85% human in New Jersey.


FIFA president targeted by complaint to Olympic ethics body.


Apple Seeks to Buy Chinese-Made Memory Chips by Lobbying US.


Apple Seeks to Buy Chinese-Made Memory Chips by Lobbying US


Pressure from Silicon Valley helped block Trump's expected order on AI.


Wall Street Millennial: OpenAI Lobbying for Gov Bailout.


Apple's lobbying effort saves it from new App Store rules.


Tech Lobbyists Hard at Work Undermining Proposed Alaska 'Right to Repair' Law.


How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll.


Show HN: The Public Tab – See every federal dollar flowing through your district. Early in my career I worked on DataLab, the sister site to USASpending.gov before it got merged into it. I then worked on USASpending a bit. Datalab had more of a "for the people" storytelling vibe to it which I liked a lot more and I feel that spirit got lost when we "merged" into USASpending. I built The Public Tab in response to this feeling.
My core idea: The district you are in is a more relatable measure of analysis for federal spending for the average person. You want to know what is going on around you. You can more easily "follow the money" this way.
I have a pipeline that runs nightly/weekly with data digest from USASpending, SAM.gov, and some other big players in the space.
You can subscribe to changes and get updates daily/weekly on spending in your district. You can map that to lobbying, new contracts that pop up, as well as what your rep is voting on.
The client libraries are written in ruby and are open source here: https://github.com/govapi-rb
You can also check out the API Docs here: https://thepublictab.com/docs/api
It is deemed "beta" for now.. I'd love any feedback and to hear what is cool and what is not.
Thanks!