Colorado lawmakers hit a familiar wall — Big Tech’s influence — in effort to rewrite AI regulations

A group of Democratic lawmakers announced the breakthrough to their colleagues four days into the recent special session — a tentative agreement struck to rewrite the state’s much-contested artificial intelligence regulations that would put an end to more than a year of protracted debate.

The Sunday night deal, reached after days of uncertainty during a session otherwise focused on the state’s budget , would provide a path toward firmer tech oversight.

But by early the next afternoon, the framework had collapsed. Major tech companies and a leading business group hadn’t agreed to a key provision that would hold companies liable if their AI-powered products were responsible for discriminating against people who, say, had applied for a job or a loan. That lawmakers had announced a deal ca