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.

There are 100 legislators in the Colorado Legislature.

The tech industry hired 150 lobbyists to exert pressure on the AI bill, according to an Axios analysis of state records.

In other words, the politicians were outnumbered by 50 — just one reflection of the clout the tech industry now has in Colorado.

Amazon, health care companies and TechNet, a coalition of tech CEOs, all hired multiple lobbyists, according to Axios.

The industry also has a governor who aligns more and more with their interests of late. Polis, a former tech entrepreneur himself, vetoed several bills

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