Colorado Politics: Stakeholders say delay of Colorado AI regulations offers breathing room, but not final resolution
Colorado Chamber of Commerce executive director Rachel Beck says her members knew AI regulation was inevitable and are more than willing to comply, but many share Polis’s apprehensions about the original bill’s potential to stifle innovation in a burgeoning industry.
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Route Fifty: Colorado delays implementing first-in-the-nation AI law
The Colorado Chamber of Commerce called that provision “harmful” and urged lawmakers to vote against it.
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Gazette: The big winner of the special session? Big Tech
If you are looking for winners and losers from the recent legislative special session, the biggest winner has to be the tech industry, which showed itself to be a force to be reckoned with in the fight over the AI bill.
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Colorado Sun: There are 140,000 job openings in Colorado. Here are a handful of them.
A report by Aspen Tech Labs, which tracks online job listings for the Colorado Chamber Foundation, put the online listings count at around 127,600 at the end of June.
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Daily Camera: Colorado lawmakers hit a familiar wall — Big Tech’s influence — in effort to rewrite AI regulations
Furman said the technology sector is a large and growing part of the state’s economy; policymakers can’t close the state off to those companies, she argued. She and others objected to the notion that there was ever a deal, given that they hadn’t agreed to it, and criticized the anti-tech comments from other lawmakers.
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PBS 12: Colorado’s Budget Deficit, Social Policy Bills, DIA Nuclear Proposal & Local Leaders’
In regards to the $153.2 million the state will hold on to from rolling back tax breaks, plus the $100 million from selling tax credits, VP of Strategic Initiatives at the Colorado Chamber of Commerce Ed Sealover wonders if this needed more discussion before it was voted upon: “I want to give you one example. Legislators eliminated what’s called the Regional Home Office Credit. That goes to insurers who have at least 2.5% of their workforce here in the state.
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Complete Colorado: Politicians have no business influencing 9News sale
Still, obviously 9News is a serious part of Colorado’s news media landscape. It joins other TV news crews, the newspapers starting with the Denver Post and the Gazette, the CPR empire, the Sun, and various smaller outlets. These include Complete Colorado and the Chamber of Commerce’s Sum & Substance, for which Ed Sealover writes detailed and generally business-friendly reports.
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