“With reservations,” Polis signs landmark AI regulation bill
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed into law the nation’s first comprehensive attempt to regulate the development and deployment of artificial intelligence — but with…
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Should Colorado establish national precedent in setting rules for artificial intelligence?
Gov. Jared Polis, a longtime supporter of disruptive industries and technologies, must decide in the coming weeks whether Colorado wants to go it alone and…
Four business-opposed bills, including single-payer health study, die on Tuesday
Colorado legislators allowed the clock to run out on four bills Tuesday that critics warned would raise the already high cost of living, including another…
Colorado leaders push incentives that could leverage significant federal technology funds
As legislators try to squeeze new programs into a tight budget hole this year, state economic-development leaders are working similarly to leverage limited resources to…
Bills to boost regulations on Uber, DoorDash and others appear headed to Polis’ desk
Companies from DoorDash to Uber to Lyft that use gig workers to deliver people and goods throughout Colorado largely have reached agreement — even if…
Legislators decide right-of-way access will come at annual cost to telecom firms
The Colorado Department of Transportation will be able to charge both initial and annual fees to telecommunications firms laying broadband fiber in highway right-of-way areas,…
Legislature gives final approval to digital electronics right-to-repair bill
Colorado legislators on Tuesday sent to Gov. Jared Polis a slightly tightened bill that will add to the state’s growing right-to-repair law the ability for…
Legislators give first nod to precedent-setting artificial intelligence regulation bill
Colorado took a step Wednesday toward becoming the first state to create standards for development and use of artificial intelligence, as a Senate committee advanced…
Wide-ranging ban on “junk fees” dies — at least for 2024 session
A Colorado bill to ban “junk fees” is headed to the legislative trash heap after backers and tech industry leaders could not agree on several…
Transportation, delivery companies try to find consensus with legislators on bills to regulate them
Transportation- and delivery-network companies from Uber to DoorDash to Instacart are “working earnestly” to reach agreement on two bills to impose nationally precedent-setting regulations on…