Michael Petricone

Govt Affairs at CTA. Techno-Optimist. Citizen of DC and Red Sox Nation. All opinions = my own

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

All those years I was advocating for stronger antitrust, I had no idea how looney the leaders of that movement were. I knew the econ papers, but I didn't know what was happening in the back rooms of Washington D.C.

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

Remarkable Innovation House conversation with civil rights icon @RepJamesClyburn moderated by @TiffanyMMoore 🇺🇸

[Blockchain Association @BlockchainAssn]

1/ Today, we’re sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Thune and Senate Democratic Leader Schumer signed by 160 former national security, intelligence, and law enforcement professionals in support of the Clarity Act.

https://t.co/1lSQkoaaXI

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

America has always won by innovating faster than everyone else while tackling real challenges head on. This order recognizes that security and innovation are not competing priorities. We welcome the Administration’s commitment to keeping the US on the forefront of AI.

[Director Michael Kratsios @mkratsios47]

Today @POTUS signed an EO that keeps America leading in AI while putting frontier AI capabilities to work strengthening our cyber defenses.

AI systems are now the most powerful tools we have ever had to harden our cyber infrastructure and stay ahead of adversaries. It is a real blessing that these capabilities are being developed by American industry, and not by those who would use them against us.
https://t.co/tsXXVuMWZ9

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

🚨 Let’s gooooooo

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

NEW: 🇺🇸 The Clarity Act has now been placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar 👀

Let's get this landmark legislation approved 👏

[Kinsey Fabrizio @kmfabrizio]

America leads the world in AI because we innovate first. Today's Executive Order is a positive signal, making it clear the Administration will not impose licensing, preclearance or permitting requirements on AI models. (1/2)

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

The broadcasters’ argument boils down to this: protect our business model.

Consumers want choice. Athletes want audiences. Women’s sports want more distribution. Streaming and new technologies deliver all three.

Why defend scarcity when technology creates abundance?

[Consumer Tech Association @CTATech]

Consumers—not government-driven tech mandates—should decide how sports viewing evolves. Check out CTA's comments to the @FCC on sports broadcasting and NextGen broadcast TV:
https://t.co/EvSv9COsdb

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

Attacking someone for sitting down with the other party and trying to solve big issues like AI is exactly what’s wrong with our politics.

Thank you @RepLoriTrahan for having the courage to negotiate, compromise, and lead. That’s what voters expect and it’s how 🇺🇸 wins.

[Benjamin Guggenheim @ben_guggenheim]

NEWS: An AI advocacy org is launching an ad campaign this week in Rep. Lori Trahan’s district, slamming her recent efforts to negotiate bipartisan AI legislation.

“AI oligarchs want to roll back civil rights… And Rep. Lori Trahan is taking their side.”

https://t.co/kab9eIAPRT

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

Being second in the next financial system is not an acceptable outcome. American economic prosperity cannot afford second place.

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

Exhibit A for why 🇺🇸 must win the AI race. China surges forward with authoritarian AI while we tie our own hands with 1700 state bills. Congress - pass federal AI preemption now!

[Adam Thierer @AdamThierer]

this *potential* AI bill has not even been floated and yet a pro-regulatory lobbying group is already running irresponsible, highly inaccurate ads based merely on the idea that there *might* be an effort to formulate a national policy framework to help bring some consistency to the confusing and costly patchwork of AI laws proliferating today.

It is just insultingly clownish to suggest that even thinking about such a bill would undo decades of civil rights law. That is a complete lie. Shameful behavior.

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

America can't lead international conversations about digital asset standards while refusing to pass its own. Without the Clarity Act, other nations will fill that vacuum & write rules that may never align with American values or interests. We can't leave this credibility gap open

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

The Clarity Act is not just a crypto bill. It's a decision about whether America leads the next financial system or watches from the sidelines.

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

We truly live in an age of miracles.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine.

In the last 5 weeks we’ve got news on:

- retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels
- RevMed’s new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented abilities to extend life
- small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol
- Mayo’s AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection
- this new therapy for metastatic solid tumors

This stuff is at varying levels of evidence. Retatrutide is ~100% on its way, other stuff needs more clinical trial data. But put it together and we’re maybe on the verge of majorly reducing the mortality of heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in America.

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

🎯

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

America built the dollar-dominated financial system that has anchored global stability for a century. The Clarity Act ensures we build the next one. The time to act is now — before Beijing decides it will.

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

"I think going to a city where you can't get a @Waymo or a CyberCab is going to feel barbaric and unsafe.  If you remember in the early days of Uber, sometimes you'd go to a city where there was no Uber and it would be incredibly frustrating." - @GavinSBaker @theallinpod

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

Same media:

“AI is too powerful!”

also

“AI can’t tell the difference between the two Georgias!”

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

So funny - exact same experience.

[John A. Monaco @johnamonaco]

Growing up in Connecticut, I always assumed the majority of Americans had Italian-Irish ancestry.

Pizza places on every block, Irish pubs, kids in your graduating class named Ryan Mancino/Maria Murphy, everyone is Catholic.

Once I left New England, I realized how unique it was.

[Michael Petricone @mpetricone]

🇺🇸 entrepreneurs can’t build the future when they have to guess what the rules are. Regulatory uncertainty drives talent, capital, and innovation elsewhere. Come
on Congress -pass the Clarity Act!

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

The next window for digital asset legislation after this Congress is likely 2030. Until then, developers remain exposed with no legal protections, and law enforcement remains without the tools to hold bad actors accountable. The Clarity Act solves both.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Apollo’s Chief Economist: Zero Evidence of AI-Related Job Losses