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A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight

A grassroots movement is forming among everyday tech workers who are demanding their companies develop and deploy AI responsibly. And the Guardrails Alliance, a new super PAC dedicated to supporting AI legislation, aims to leverage that discontent.

Democratic operatives Shaunna Thomas and Leah Hunt-Hendrix launched the Guardrails Alliance on Thursday with backing from tech employees, labor unions, and other groups, according to The New York Times.

“Our fundamental belief here is that people still do have the power to stop this autocratic takeover of the Trump administration and the tech sector,” Thomas told the NYT.

Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom. The PAC has about $5 million at its disposal today and plans to raise $15 million this cycle — small potatoes compared to deep-pocketed adversaries like Leading the Future, which has more than...

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AI is turning B2B outreach into a tragedy of the commons

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Most enterprise AI spend still hasn’t left the lab

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Tel Aviv-based Act Security, whose platform reduces the access surface across cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $40M Series A and a $20M seed

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How Financial Super Apps Rewrite Economics of Global Investing

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AI is turning B2B outreach into a tragedy of the commons

Most enterprise AI spend still hasn’t left the lab

Tel Aviv-based Act Security, whose platform reduces the access surface across cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $40M Series A and a $20M seed

How Financial Super Apps Rewrite Economics of Global Investing