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Vice President JD Vance is leading a delegation to the Feb. 10-11 AI Safety Summit in Paris that includes officials from the Office of Science and Technology Policy likely to play a central in crafting the White House AI “action plan,” but not representatives from the AI Safety Institute at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, according to a report.
A California state lawmaker has introduced a bill aimed at increasing the transparency of copyrighted materials used to train generative artificial intelligence systems and models, by requiring developers to inform copyright owners when their materials are included in GenAI training datasets.
The Senate has confirmed Russell Vought for a second term as director of the Office of Management and Budget, reinstalling an official who crafted landmark AI policy in President Trump’s first term but galvanized Democratic opposition this time around to the new administration’s early moves on federal spending and workforce.
The Special Competitive Studies Project in its latest memo for President Trump proposes employing artificial intelligence in an ambitious new initiative to propel “advanced manufacturing” that includes creation of a new leadership position at the Commerce Department, new funding for research and industry incentives, and creating testbeds for AI agents to defend U.S. manufacturing.
A new report from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center accepts a somewhat controversial view that there’s a trade-off between the accuracy and interpretability of advanced artificial intelligence systems, while advocating that the U.S. embrace weapons systems operating without human intervention.
Def Con and the University of Chicago have released the first edition of the “Hackers’ Almanack,” collecting findings from the 2024 annual conference in Las Vegas to put together recommendations for policymakers on artificial intelligence and other issues.
New Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has released a five-pillar agenda that includes energy “’dominance” and permitting reform, and underscores EPA’s role in ensuring U.S. leadership on artificial intelligence particularly by standing up data centers essential to the development of AI.
The Center for Democracy and Technology highlighted a proposed rule that would have placed stringent controls on data brokers, in condemning a directive from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new acting director instructing staff to stop all communications and other policy related activities.
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari has launched a probe into the effectiveness—and regard for individual privacy—of facial recognition technology systems the Transportation Security Administration is piloting in airports across the country.
The U.S. semiconductor industry is backing the reintroduction of a bipartisan tax-credit bill to help build out the tech manufacturing facilities need for artificial intelligence, as President Trump is poised to set tariffs targeting foreign chip producers.
Senators at a Foreign Relations hearing discussed ways to restrict the People’s Republic of China’s access to U.S.-based research on artificial intelligence and advanced technologies, but also heard a pitch to ensure students from the PRC can continue studying and working in the United States.
Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) has offered legislation to codify in law the Federal Communications Commission’s unanimous ruling last year under the Biden administration banning the use of artificial intelligence to generate automated robocalls.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has introduced a detailed bill intended prohibit the export of artificial intelligence technologies to the People’s Republic of China and to block the import of such products, a move coming days after the unveiling of the DeepSeek generative AI model from China shook U.S. policy circles and financial markets.
The tech-based Special Competitive Studies Project in a memo to President Trump urges development of a national strategy to accelerate “adoption of robotics and embodied AI across U.S. industries,” with roles for the departments of Commerce and Defense and elements including tax credits and restrictions on investment in China.
A federal district court has ordered anonymous federal employees to reveal their identities to continue their class-action lawsuit against the White House Office of Personnel Management for allegedly violating their privacy in the way that the Trump administration is collecting data from government employees.
The bipartisan leadership of the House select committee on China is calling on Trump security officials to consider expanding U.S. export controls to capture the computer chips used by Chinese company DeepSeek for its groundbreaking open-source AI chatbot R-1 released last week.
The Senate Budget Committee has approved on an 11-0 vote the selection of Russell Vought for a second stint as Office of Management and Budget director, ignoring a Democratic boycott of the business meeting spurred by a controversial OMB memo this week on federal spending.
The Center for Data Innovation is arguing that DeepSeek demonstrates China’s rapidly advancing artificial intelligence capabilities and highlights state support for that country’s tech sector that stands in contrast to what CDI sees as a burdensome regulatory structure in the United States.
A report by the conservative National Security Institute proposes a new intelligence agency within the executive branch to utilize artificial intelligence for sorting through a growing abundance of publicly available information and data in support of national economic and security goals.
Council on Foreign Relations president Michael Froman pulled together CFR’s policy experts to weigh in on how Chinese firm DeepSeek managed to produce a low-cost, high-performance artificial intelligence model that has triggered intense debate over issues such as the efficacy of U.S. export controls and whether China has erased U.S. technological advantages.
In the interest of winning an artificial-intelligence cold war with China, U.S. policymakers should not neglect measures to earn public trust in the technology, according to industry and digital rights groups.
A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies advises U.S. policymakers and tech industry leaders to “proceed with caution” while partnering with the United Arab Emirates on a quest for global dominance in artificial intelligence, noting uncertain loyalties given the Gulf state’s strong ties to China, as well as its own ambitions.
The announcement of a highly capable, low-cost AI system by the Chinese firm DeepSeek has led some U.S. policymakers to emphasize the necessity of a dramatic shift from the allegedly risk-averse Biden administration approach to artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on the efficacy of existing export controls targeting China.
Now that proponents of open-source artificial intelligence models have emerged clear victors in a year-long debate about whether a “kill switch” is necessary to mitigate risks of rogue AI, policymakers should move on to regulating issues like training-data transparency with the appropriate sector-by-sector approach, according to a senior IBM representative.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has distributed a new analysis on China’s standards for measuring and managing generative AI services, with a focus on content risks that could be the basis for censorship.
A coalition of labor groups representing federal workers has filed a lawsuit accusing President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative of violating personal data protections, adding to a growing number of legal challenges raising privacy concerns over DOGE efforts led by Elon Musk.
OpenAI CEO Sam Alman is asking a federal district court to dismiss a revised lawsuit by billionaire Elon Musk claiming his allegations of a contract dispute, which he says could undermine the AI investment marketplace, are nothing more than a “mash-up” of email exchanges that do not constitute a binding agreement.
Facebook owner Meta is being accused of knowingly relying on copyrighted works contained in “shadow libraries” to train its Llama generative artificial intelligence model, according to a third amended complaint in a high-profile lawsuit that could set new legal standards on the data AI developers can use.
A federal district court has ordered Facebook owner Meta to release a dataset related to intellectual property claims in post-training and refinement of its open-source Llama generative artificial intelligence model, the latest development in a high-profile copyright complaint.
Researchers at the influential RAND Corp. predict U.S.-based developers of artificial intelligence are unlikely to improve the technology’s energy efficiency anytime soon, potentially fueling concerns about the recent release of Chinese company DeepSeek’s dramatically efficient AI chatbot.
The Special Competitive Studies Project, a tech-based think tank established by former Google leader Eric Schmidt, is urging the Trump administration to streamline rules and implement a “unified national data strategy” in order to accelerate artificial intelligence development and out-compete China, in an “AI governance” memo to the president.
A new report by the environmental group U.S. PIRG says the tech industry’s push to build data centers to support artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies is delaying a transition to clean energy to power those centers, findings that come as the new Trump administration is doubling down on expanded fossil-fuel production and use.
The Aspen Institute has issued a report saying the worst fears about disruptions and disinformation from artificial intelligence in the 2024 election did not materialize, in part because of heighten awareness about the potential threats, laying the basis for mitigating AI effects in the upcoming midterms and European elections.