DC daily roundup: Tech merges news and bill-tracking; Senators drop $32B AI plan; Key Bridge collapse ship blackouts

A new way to track fast-moving legislation

DC-based Axios and Quorum’s platform, which will launch in June, aims to help government affairs teams by consolidating bills and related news in one searchable location.

“Before this partnership, you might have to have 30 different tabs on Google,” Alex Wirth, the CEO of Quorum, told me. “We’ve been able to combine that all into one singular view and make it much, much easier to both collect that information in the same place and then be able to navigate through it.”

➡️ Learn more about the partnership in my latest article.

Share events with the right audience

Sure, there are plenty of places to post an event — but how many can say it’ll be seen by the largest engaged audience of technologists, entrepreneurs, tech leaders and ecosystem builders in the mid-Atlantic?

That’s the value prop of Technical.ly’s new Events Board. Fill out a simple form, and your post will go live, with zero cost for free events. (Paid ticketed events cost $150.) We’ll be sharing listings from that board in this newsletter and on our social channels and Slack. Catch you there.

➡️ Check out the Events Board and maybe even post your own.

News Incubator: What else to know today

• A DC nonprofit raised $152 million to focus on investing in startups based in South and Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. [Washington Biz Journal]

• US Senators released an “AI roadmap” this morning that calls for a $32 billion infusion for AI research and development. [Washington Post]

• An independent investigation ordered by the DC Council found that John Falcicchio, the former DC deputy mayor of planning and development and chief of staff to Mayor Muriel Bowser, sexually harassed a third woman. [Washington Post]

• The cargo ship that caused the Francis Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore had electrical blackouts hours before leaving port, a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report found. [WTOP]

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