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Cloud Coalition Offers Eleventh-Hour Compromise as Ways and Means Publishes Witness List

On the eve of Wednesday's House Ways and Means markup, the largest U.S. cloud operators pitched a voluntary compute-disclosure regime and a one-year grid-impact reporting framework as a substitute for the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez moratorium, hours after committee staff released a witness list weighted toward grid economists and labor researchers.

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Ways and Means Democrats Split on AI Moratorium as Tuesday Whip Count Narrows

On the eve of a House Ways and Means Committee markup that could decide the fate of the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI moratorium, three undecided committee Democrats emerged Tuesday as the pivot of a vote House leaders now describe as too close to call.

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Hyperscaler CEOs press House Democrats as AI moratorium vote nears

With a House Ways and Means vote on the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI training moratorium expected this week, the chief executives of the country's largest cloud providers spent Monday cycling through congressional offices on Capitol Hill.

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Hyperscalers Flood Capitol Hill as AI Moratorium Faces Ways and Means Vote

With three days until the House Ways and Means Committee votes on a sweeping AI training moratorium, the largest U.S. cloud providers have mounted what lobbyists describe as the most concentrated tech-industry push since the 2018 net neutrality fights.

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Hyperscaler CEOs flood Capitol Hill as AI moratorium fight enters final week

The chief executives of the four largest US cloud providers met privately with House Ways and Means members Wednesday, racing to sink a Senate-passed moratorium on new frontier AI training runs before next week's expected committee vote.

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Hyperscalers Press House Democrats on Moratorium as Ceasefire News Shifts Capitol Focus

Top AI firms intensified pressure on Ways and Means Democrats Sunday, framing the Sanders-AOC moratorium as a brake on domestic infrastructure even as a Mideast ceasefire announcement reshuffled the week's news cycle.

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Hyperscalers Regroup Around House Ways and Means as Senate Passage Resets AI Moratorium Fight

Twenty-four hours after the Senate passed the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI compute pause, the cloud industry pivoted its lobbying operation toward House Ways and Means, where the bill faces its narrowest path. Tech stocks slid, and three major hyperscalers placed new infrastructure commitments on the table.

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Hyperscaler Lobbyists Flood Capitol Hill on Eve of AI Moratorium Vote

With a Senate vote on the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI training moratorium scheduled for Tuesday, top cloud and chip executives spent Monday in back-to-back meetings with undecided senators.

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Hyperscalers Flood Capitol Hill Ahead of AI Moratorium Hearings

Top cloud and AI firms have deployed an unprecedented Washington push to weaken the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez moratorium bill, with executives, lobbyists and union allies converging on the Hill before next week's Senate vote.

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