{
  "id": 1294076,
  "title": "How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (Washington Post)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/how-concerns-about-ai-became-an-important-midterms-issue-with",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-16T15:20:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/14/ai-becomes-major-election-issue-first-time-data-shows/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzg2NjgwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg4MDYyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY2ODAwMDAsImp0aSI6Ijk2OTNkOTM2LTg0ODgtNGVjOS1iNTdmLTVhY2ZjNTg5NmFlYyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjYvMDgvMTQvYWktYmVjb21lcy1tYWpvci1lbGVjdGlvbi1pc3N1ZS1maXJzdC10aW1lLWRhdGEtc2hvd3MvIn0.HwCWU70YJs-Ehcd0EjuIo042EWgf_bOlBZOXr7FILIg&itid=gfta"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Across the United States, political candidates are grappling with an issue that has never before featured widely in American political life: artificial intelligence.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}