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Don't know about regulation, but the development of the internet was initially subsidised by the US government [1]. AI research has also been subsidised in the past. The famous MNIST handwriting dataset being a good example here [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

[2] https://www.nist.gov/srd/nist-special-database-19