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What exactly is in this bill and where is the money going? I'm having a very hard time researching this for some reason. Is there anything of interest to software technologists in there?

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I looked at a PDF of the bill that was linked to in the WaPo version of the article. It probably doesn't matter until the House passes its version, but there are funds for AI workforce development for example that might be of interest to those early in their careers.

Thanks, that's interesting to note. The main thing people seem to talk about is the 52 billion for semiconductors which is the "CHIPS" act. Just wondering about the other 200 billion. It looked like $29 billion went to the NSF?

My takeaway was that the $52 billion set aside specifically for chips will also be managed and disbursed through the NSF.

Let me guess, this is gonna go straight in Google, Microsoft, Oracle pocket ?

Not only they skip taxes (which I have no problem about), but they lobby to get billions in government fundings...

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