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NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to commission an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system — bringing one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms fully online for the students, researchers and faculty at the U.S. military’s flagship graduate university. “Our nation depends on our men and women […]

The United States lacks a rigorous, routinized approach to managing foreign policy crises. The Wachenheim Center for Peace and Security has developed a set of Crisis Response Playbooks and a Crisis ...

MARIETTA, Ga. — In his first public school visit since taking office last year, President Donald Trump stopped at an Atlanta-area high school Wednesday to promote his administration’s effort to kickstart savings accounts for the nation’s children. For decades, he said, Washington politicians gave young people “nothing but debt,” he said. “The government is finally […]

A top White House official accused a Chinese startup on Wednesday of improperly using Anthropic's latest model and accessing restricted Nvidia chips to develop its new Kimi model. Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the administration has information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable to produce...

A minor who sued multiple social media companies over claims that he suffered mental health problems due to his use of their platforms has dropped his lawsuit against Meta, just days before the case was set to go to trial in California. The plaintiff identified only as “R.K.C.” had brought claims against YouTube, Meta, Snap...

The nearly party line vote moves the unusually contentious measure forward after it earlier stalled in both chambers of Congress.

The Government Accountability Office looked at 117 rules across 37 agencies and found 70% had reporting requirements that were overlapping. The post Most federal cybersecurity reporting rules are duplicative, study finds appeared first on CyberScoop .

Tech policy leadership in the White House say Moonshot AI illegally trained its model off of Anthropic’s Fable.

The Trump administration announced it plans to shift some of the $200 billion in annual funding for research and development away from academic institutions to focus on individual scientists. In a memo released Tuesday, Michael Kratisos, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, argued the framework put forth following World...

Federal agencies have committed more than $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an Energy Department-led effort to use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific research, White House science adviser Michael Kratsios announced on Wednesday. The initiative selected 278 projects from more than 5,000 applications, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said at a summit in Washington. More than […] This story continues at The Next Web

There are now 20 federal agencies on board with the Genesis Mission as a whole-of-government approach takes shape. The post NASA, DOD and others join Energy Department-led Genesis Mission appeared first on FedScoop .

By reducing regulatory burdens, the FCC “is taking a critical step in allowing for continued American innovation and space superiority,” according to the Commercial Space Federation.

Overturning a decades-old policy, the US government will soon limit international students to no more than four years in the United States unless they can secure an extension from the US government.

While distillation attacks by foreign governments and companies have real national security implications, questions around who ultimately owns the data in AI systems are fraught. The post White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s Fable appeared first on CyberScoop .

The initiative marks a wider push to steer federal science funding toward AI-powered research and individual investigators.

The release of Kimi K3 , the latest model from Moonshot Labs, a Chinese AI firm founded by a former Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate, has shaken both the AI and political worlds. In an instant, the seemingly comfortable lead held by U.S. frontier AI labs over their Chinese competitors appeared to narrow sharply. K3’s release has rattled the chattering classes in Washington and Silicon Valley. In response, they have begun fighting among themselves. Samuel Hammond, director of AI policy a

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The use of LLMs for foreign intelligence surveillance erodes the rules put in place to safeguard Americans' civil liberties. The post AI and Warrantless Foreign Intelligence Surveillance appeared first on Just Security .

By identifying the genes and molecules crucial to resistance in American chestnuts and other species, researchers hope to use genomic techniques to breed trees that can flourish in the face of blight.

OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.

Very few companies have a better real-time read on the American economy than Delta, and even fewer CEOs are more willing to say what they actually think than Ed Bastian. True to form, he shares how the company’s business model has evolved over time, and why he’s not convinced by AI until it moves his top line. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response , hosted by former Fast Company editor-in-chief Robert Safian. From the team behind the Masters of Scale podcast, Rapid R

Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universities The US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI , ⁠the Trump administration said in a statement on Wednesday. The agencies will use the funding to identify the root causes ⁠of chronic diseases, accelerate drug ⁠discovery and ​develop longer-lasting building materials, among other tasks, according to the statement

What GAO Found GAO identified 117 cybersecurity regulations established by 37 federal agencies for private entities, spanning nine critical infrastructure sectors. Most of those regulations either contain the same kind of reporting requirement applicable to a sector or the same reporting requirement as at least one other regulation, which may lead to duplication. Specifically, 80 of the 117 regulations (about 70 percent) had at least 125 total reporting requirements (see figure), with some regul

What GAO Found Since 2000, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) have managed and launched the Don’t Lie for the Other Guy campaign across various cities in the U.S. The campaign is intended to educate the public about the legal consequences of “straw purchases”—when someone who is prohibited from buying a firearm has someone else (a “straw buyer”) make the purchase for them. The campaign also educates federal firearms li

In April, the National Center for Education Statistics reported that the 50 states and Washington, D.C., took in $1 trillion in federal, state and local revenue for K-12 public education in the 2023-24 school year. One. Trillion. Dollars. That’s a remarkable milestone. And while it doesn’t tell the whole story — it represents only revenues, […]

The release of the Chinese AI model Kimi 3 is forcing Washington and Silicon Valley to reckon with another sign of intense competition with Beijing, renewing questions over how to curb the country’s technology capabilities. Kimi 3, released late last week by the China-based firm Moonshot AI, quickly sent shockwaves through industry and policy circles,...

Kalshi launched a new online hub Wednesday for midterm election forecasting, displaying prediction market odds for major races alongside polling averages, fundraising data and other election information. The platform touted its "Midterms Hub" as a "one-stop-shop for state and federal election forecasting," featuring Senate, House and gubernatorial races. "Prediction markets don't care about spin or...

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Plus: New York Times and Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity and Google signs non-licensing AI deals. The post Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: News Corp sues Brave, Microsoft signs Australian Copilot deal appeared first on Press Gazette .

This paper describes a global pattern of declining academic freedom, often driven by powerful political interference with core functions of academic communities. It argues that countering threats to academic freedom requires doubling down on ethics, specifically standards of justice and fairness in pursuing knowledge and assigning warrant to beliefs. Using the example of the selection of a Qatari university to host the 2024 World Congress of Bioethics, the authors urge fairness towards diverse g

Survey: Majority of Americans Say College Not Affordable kathryn.palmer… Wed, 07/22/2026 - 03:00 AM Meanwhile, nearly three-quarters of parents want their child to pursue some type of higher education after high school, with the strongest preference for a four-year degree.  Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

The Taiwan-based chipmaker has announced $200 billion in investment into U.S. manufacturing since Trump returned to power in 2025.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping how agrifood systems function in the United States, yet the role of federal policy in guiding its use, oversight, and broader consequences is still not well defined. This study explores how current U.S. federal AI policies support-or limit-the advancement of agrifood systems by synthesizing evidence from publicly available policy documents. Using a focused search strategy and qualitative content analysis, we reviewed nine federal policy docume

A Maryland lawyer has been sanctioned by a federal appeals court after admitting to using a generative AI tool to draft a brief that cited multiple nonexistent cases. Kusmin L. Amarsingh on Monday was sanctioned $1,000 by the US Court of A ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1577#7539)

An elite Wall Street law firm has apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing replete with errors created by artificial intelligence, including "hallucinations" that fabricated case citations. The A.I.-generated errors came ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1558#7551)

Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishers in the United States, pulled a forthcoming horror novel on Thursday in a decision that followed widespread allegations online that the author, Mia Ballard, relied heavily on artificial inte ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1444#7553)

Background: Effective communication is crucial for high-quality health care, but systemic barriers still disrupt patient-provider interactions. Research shows that communication failures are a major reason for preventable medical errors. These issues are linked to around 30% of malpractice claims and over 1744 deaths each year in the United States. In addition, hospitals lose about US $12 billion each year because of miscommunication. Despite the critical nature of this issue, the literature rem

The First Responders Fair RETIRE Act, which ensures federal workers can stay on accelerated mandatory retirement schedules even if they transfer to another due to injury, was signed into law in 2022.

Anthea Hartig rejected a White House report accusing the Smithsonian of “ideological capture” and anti‑American bias.