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Alibaba: Judge Halts Pentagon's Lobbying Ban for Now
A Chinese tech giant just scored a legal win against the US Pentagon. A federal judge temporarily blocked a ban that was really putting Alibaba in a tight spot.
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Saturday, August 1, 2026
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A Chinese tech giant just scored a legal win against the US Pentagon. A federal judge temporarily blocked a ban that was really putting Alibaba in a tight spot.

As Meta, Google, and OpenAI dump hundreds of millions into shaping AI laws, a scrappy bunch of actual tech workers said: hold up, we've got something to say. They've pooled together $5 million from people in the trenches — developers, researchers, open source maintainers — to do their own lobbying.
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