What We're Building and Why

The legal and policy decisions being made about artificial intelligence right now — about who owns it, who regulates it, and who benefits from it — will shape the distribution of economic and political power for decades. Most of those decisions are being made quickly, quietly, and under significant influence from the people with the most to gain from a particular outcome.
That is not a conspiracy theory. It is a documented structural reality. Lobbying disclosures, campaign finance records, and regulatory proceedings are all public. The information exists. What has been missing is someone aggregating it specifically for technology policy — correlating the money with the votes, the votes with the rules, and the rules with the outcomes.
That is what Follow the Tech is built to do.
We are an independent research and advocacy organization, a project of the Center for Technology and Public Interest, currently in formation as a nonprofit. Our focus is technology policy in the broadest sense — artificial intelligence governance, patent doctrine, quantum computing, energy infrastructure, and the regulatory frameworks being built — or ignored — around all of them. We publish original analysis, track litigation and legislation, and follow the money behind both. Everything we find, we publish openly.
We are new. This is our first piece. We think that is worth saying plainly rather than obscuring — the publication date is accurate, and it will always be.
We are also not neutral. We believe that transformative technology should serve the many, not the few, and that the public interest is underrepresented in the rooms where these decisions get made. Our work will reflect that. So will our funding disclosures.
Over the coming weeks we will be publishing analysis of current AI litigation, active regulatory proceedings, and the patent doctrine questions that existing coverage has largely ignored. If you want that research in your inbox, subscribe below. If you have thoughts, pushback, or leads, reach out.
We are just getting started. So, in many ways, is this moment.
— The Editors, Follow the Tech
March 2026