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Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trump’s manufacturing plan.

Lieutenant General John (Jack) N.T. Shanahan, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, helped shape the Department of Defense's approach to artificial ...

Corporate America is starting to balk at the cost of AI agents. A cheap alternative from China looks more tempting than ever.

“Greg has done an excellent job as Federal CIO and Chief AI Officer,” an OMB spokesperson told Nextgov/FCW. “He will certainly be missed when his time here comes to an end.”

What GAO Found To support Holocaust education in K–12 public schools, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum—the main federal provider of Holocaust education resources—provides professional development for teachers through its annual conference, fellowships, online videos, and webinars. The Museum offers educational materials, such as lesson plans and online lessons, based on its collection of artifacts. It also partners with state and local organizations and researches effective education strategie

To sustain future maritime operations, the U.S military will need to run supplies through an environment that spans thousands of miles of open ocean, denied ports, contested straits, and archipelagic chokepoints against adversaries that have spent decades studying how to target American logistics. That problem does not require one identical vessel for every mission. It does require a more common family of watercraft for the manned ships that carry cargo and vehicles inside a theater, built for s

The closed-door event will focus on supply chain, workforce development and private sector insights into the emerging technology.

Congress is closer than ever to rewriting the rules for young people online. Just last week, the House of Representatives passed the KIDS Act, which includes a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) 2.0. Most of the public debate has centered on what these […] The post Should Have Known Is the Wrong Standard for Kids’ Safety Laws appeared first on Center for Democracy and Technology .

Tech giant Alibaba Group Holding has secured a temporary legal reprieve that effectively allows it to resume lobbying in the United States, the latest development in its dispute with the Pentagon after the firm was included on a blacklist of companies deemed to support China’s military. A judge in the Northern District of California on Sunday ordered the Department of Defence not to enforce a lobbying prohibition against Alibaba while the court considered the firm’s constitutional challenge to..

Generative AI (GenAI) systems store and process client data in three distinct ways: in the model's parameters through training and memorisation, in the context window during a live session, and in knowledge databases for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Each mode creates different and often counter-intuitive risks to confidentiality and legal professional privilege, and each calls for specific governance responses. Drawing on the first English and American decisions to address privilege and

Senators Grassley and Klobuchar have re-introduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), to address competition concerns with market concentration in the online platform marketplace. The new bill is similar to a version of the bill that saw action two Congresses ago, but has been revised in significant respects. As the letter indicates, CDT plans […] The post CDT Letter on Reintroduced AICOA Bill appeared first on Center for Democracy and Technology .

Warning letters sent to seven companies urge compliance with FTC’s Made in the USA Standard The Federal Trade Commission today issued warning letters to seven companies that appear to have misrepresented certain products as “Made in the USA,” and one company that appears to have misrepresented certain products as “Made in Texas,” despite indications that such products were imported, in whole or in significant part. View Press Release

America is a uniquely sick, unhealthy country — just ask Americans. We’re addicted to ultraprocessed food and succumb to deaths of despair. The current US health secretary, who insists we’ve been raising the “sickest generation” ever, has built an entire political movement around the idea that there is something uniquely unwell about America as a […]

July 1 (Reuters) - A California man sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday, claiming the company's ChatGPT platform exacerbated his bipolar disorder due to a lack of safeguards for users with mental illness. Michael Lines, 34, sai ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1569#7488)

The American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act rests on a sweeping claim about the ownership of value created by artificial intelligence. Because AI models are trained on data generated by the public, the bill treats the resulting gains as a public resource subject to state control and redistribution. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) proposal would require ... The Fatal Conceit Gets a GPU Cluster: Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Socialize AI The post The Fatal Conceit Gets a GPU Cluster: Bernie Sanders’ Plan t

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly adopted into everyday life, with most investment and development concentrated in the U.S. In response to rapid AI integration and scant federal guidelines, U.S. states have formed AI committees charged with studying AI-related societal trade-offs. We analyzed the 18 existing state-level AI committee reports to understand how policymakers discuss AI-related benefits and risks. We then compared the risks surfaced by policymakers to an esta

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, and winners will be selected by a reader vote undertaken through our newsletter later this summer. Prior installments can be found at the Arsenal of Innovation page. The history of the semiconductor is an origin story for mod

Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to the SigmaWest science camp and then STOC, there was much talk about a recent Trump administration action that would ban not only differential privacy, but […]

This letter provides GAO's comments on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Auditing Standards Board's (ASB) Proposed Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements: Common Concepts, Examination Engagements, Review Engagements, and Engagements to Report on Sustainability Information and Proposed Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements: Amendments to SSAE Nos. 18-19 and 21 to Reflect Proposed SSAE Common Concepts, Examination Engagements, Review Engagement

X Corp. should not be able to escape privacy compliance because it changed its name. On May 15, X Corp. filed a petition before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to set aside or modify an order issued in 2022 requiring the company to report regularly to the FTC for its violations of user data. The order or “consent decree” is a result of misleading the platforms’ 140 million users by using private information given to secure accounts, like phone numbers and email addresses, for targeted adverti

FTC urged to reject Elon Musk’s bid to end X monitoring amid AI concerns.

For roughly 90 years, Humphrey’s Executor had been the constitutional law equivalent of a load-bearing antique: an awkward, if still functioning, architectural kludge, much admired in certain circles, but increasingly hard to rationalize. Earlier this week, finally, the U.S. Supreme Court replaced it. In Trump v. Slaughter, the Court overruled that 1935 opinion. The president ... Much Ado About Removal: The Supreme Court, the FTC, and the End of Independent-ish Agencies The post Much Ado About R

The medical tools of the Revolutionary period help flesh out the picture of what physical well-being felt like for people living in the American colonies 250 years ago.

What GAO Found Under federal special education law, students with disabilities are to be educated alongside their peers without disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate. Nationally, the number of students with disabilities in the general education classroom (gen ed) for at least 40 percent of their day increased 25 percent from school year 2012–13 through school year 2023–24 (see figure). The largest increase came from students with disabilities in gen ed for at least 80 percent of their d

On Tuesday, the United States Department of Commerce removed restrictions on two of Anthropic’s new advanced AI models that have prompted security concerns: Mythos 5 and Fable 5. This is a major ...

Big Data & Society, Volume 13, Issue 3, July-September 2026. The regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) is a prominent issue in both the European Union (EU) and the United States of America, but with distinct approaches to the governance of this rapidly evolving field. The EU has developed a comprehensive ...

Yesterday, EPIC filed comments in response to the California Department of Justice’s proposed rules to implement the Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act (SB 976). EPIC commended California for the proposed rules, which align strongly with the privacy- and speech-protective principles for age assurance implementation that EPIC urged the state to follow in a comment submitted last year. In this latest round of comments, EPIC recommended additional tweaks to further enhance privacy

Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.

The return of research results to populations and individuals is increasingly recognised as both important but ethically complicated. In the USA, there are few studies or detailed evidence-based practices on the return of research results to individuals who are incarcerated. In general, return of research results is not required with some exceptions; however, there are reasons to believe that in many cases returning results is most consistent with the ethical conduct of research. With individual

NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, energy grids and skilled workforces so the U.S. can produce the infrastructure needed for better healthcare, breakthrough scientific discovery, stronger industrial productivity and global technology leadership.

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a proposed policy statement addressing concerns that AI companies may be manipulating the b View Press Release

The intersection of AI, healthcare, and visualization is evolving rapidly, posing challenges that cut across disciplinary boundaries and resist easy resolution. The Visual Analytics in Healthcare workshop (VAHC), co-located every other year at the IEEE VIS conference and the AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) annual conference, has served as a forum to connect the visualization and medical informatics community since 2010. In 2025, to celebrate the 16th edition, we used the workshop

Washington, D.C. — Today, the New Jersey legislature passed the New Jersey Kids Code ActNew Jersey Kids Code Act, which prohibits online companies from engaging in data and design practices that harm minors online. The bill now advances to the desk of Gov. Mikie Sherrill. EPIC applauds lawmakers’ passage of this crucial piece of legislation, which features … Continued

CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by CNBC. The article examines U.S. AI restrictions and China’s rapid progress in closing the gap with leading American models. The post Trump administration’s AI crackdown opens door for China to close gap appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

On Friday, June 26, EPIC filed an amicus brief alongside civil liberties and criminal defense organizations in New York v. Morris, an important case about cell phone privacy rights during criminal investigations. The brief was filed with the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society, the Center for … Continued

Washington DC – Today, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) announced the addition of four new members to its Advisory Board. Since its establishment, EPIC’s work has been informed by the expertise of leading scholars, experts, and advocates in the fields of privacy, technology policy, and digital rights. We are excited to see the expansion of … Continued

At New America, our work spans across five issue areas—each essential to building a nation and a world where everyone can thrive. What Parents of Young Kids Want: Insights from the 2026 National ...

The extent of China’s drone dominance — and how to decouple from it — has long been a source of debate and anxiety in Washington. Last month, the Wall Street Journal reignited controversy by publishing a visual analysis of military quadcopter components, exploring China’s advantages in parts manufacturing and cost. The director of the Defense Innovation Unit objected to the report, stating on X that “By leaving out the dozens of U.S. companies that have plunged into drone component manufacturing

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