The National Science Foundation has announced a funding opportunity to establish AI “Coordination Hubs” across the country under an initiative to expand artificial intelligence understanding throughout the workforce and U.S. communities, and will soon launch a process to choose a national lead.
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A recent House Financial Services subcommittee hearing examined ways to promote AI uses and other innovation in the sector, as the committee’s Republican majority circulates a draft bill that would create innovation offices in the sector’s federal regulatory agencies and establish a petition process that would allow stakeholders to replace rules with legally binding compliance agreements.
The clock has run out on David Sacks’ tenure as a White House AI advisor but he is moving into a new role as co-chair of President Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, where his already hefty influence may be enhanced as he continues to tag-team on artificial intelligence and other tech policy with science advisor Michael Kratsios.
Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) has introduced legislation -- the Youth AI Privacy Act -- that seeks to protect chatbot users under 18 from prolonged and deeply personal engagements with chatbots while trying to avoid running afoul of First Amendment issues.
California lawmakers are advancing an industry-opposed bill requiring employers to provide written notice to employees that a workplace AI tool is being used to “assist the employer in making employment-related decisions or to surveil the workplace,” though the measure could be further amended to address concerns.
Transportation officials in California, the cradle of the artificial intelligence industry and often a sparring partner with the federal government over regulation, enthusiastically tout AI’s potential to help shape the systems of the future in a filing for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s initiative on digital infrastructure.
Federal Judge Rita Lin has granted Anthropic’s request for a preliminary injunction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s designation of the company as a supply chain risk -- drawing cheers from industry and civil society groups -- in a ruling that cites a “deeply troubling” justification that suggests a motive of retaliation rather than national security.
Congressional and private sector national security leaders point to Justice Department action against alleged chip smugglers as a major step in efforts to protect sensitive U.S. technology essential to artificial intelligence, with some saying the case highlights a significant loophole in export control policy.
The departments of Energy and Commerce are teaming up with a major power company and the Japanese-based investment firm Softbank to build and power a 10 gigawatt data center on DOE property in Ohio, “at no cost to American families,” in line with President Trump’s AI-related “Ratepayer Protection Project” and a recent trade agreement with Japan.
The government is trying to fabricate a reason after-the-fact for designating Anthropic a supply-chain risk, according to the company’s latest filing in its legal challenge of the action, which notes an e-mail that Defense Under Secretary for Research and Engineering Emil Michael sent to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the same day notice of the designation was received.
Legislation introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) seeks to ban the export of advanced artificial intelligence chips to any country unless they have rules in place to address “existential” risks to humanity associated with the technology.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) celebrated Meta’s defeat in court over child safety issues as a signal for lawmakers to support their Kids Online Safety Act -- legislation at the center of competing proposals for establishing a federal standard to uniformly govern artificial intelligence across the U.S.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) are set to introduce legislation that would ban artificial intelligence data centers unless and until safeguards are implemented to protect against a wide range of harms associated with the technology.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is calling for a hearing to challenge Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on plans to replace workers with robots, while Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) wants to facilitate the expected artificial intelligence transition through education.
A framework the White House has issued to guide Congress toward federal legislation to uniformly govern artificial intelligence is woefully lacking in recommendations for moving the policy needle forward, according to civil society groups, who say the proposal primarily serves to protect industry profits at the expense of average Americans.
Statements from House and Senate Republicans reflect high-level unity in response to a White House policy framework for pre-empting state artificial intelligence laws and regulations, but belie a torrent of disagreement -- including within the majority party -- over the details of legislation it is meant to inspire.
Leading tech-industry groups say the Trump administration’s new framework for a national artificial intelligence policy provides an important basis for bipartisan congressional efforts on AI legislation, which would replace a patchwork of state regulation with federal standards that provide guardrails and boost innovation.
The White House has released a long-awaited “national policy framework” to guide congressional efforts on artificial intelligence legislation that would preempt state regulation, under a directive in President Trump’s December AI executive order.
Anthropic is already assisting the Defense Department in the execution of “war crimes,” according to an amicus brief, which argues it doesn’t matter whether the company’s artificial intelligence model is operating fully or semi-autonomously as part of a “kill chain.”
The Consumer Technology Association offers recommendations on “AI-enabled” technology necessary to support modern, “digitally integrated” transportation infrastructure, as well as urging support for a preemptive federal standard on autonomous vehicles, in response to a Department of Transportation inquiry.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is getting early pushback from some industry and civil society stakeholders on a legislative discussion draft she has put forward to fulfil President Trump’s executive order seeking to stop a profusion of disparate state AI laws and regulations.
The Better Identity Coalition, an industry group focused on the “human” aspects of identity verification policy, says the rise of agentic artificial intelligence creates a new set of challenges around securing identity systems that require a standards-based response, in comments to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation at NIST.
The Commerce Department decision to allow two types of industry consortia to package AI technology stacks for export -- announced March 16 -- is welcomed by some stakeholders as an important element of flexibility to encourage participation in the “American AI Exports Program” launched by the Trump administration.
The Commerce Department will begin accepting proposals on April 1 from industry consortia to “export full-stack AI technology packages” under President Trump’s artificial intelligence action plan and a related executive order, the department announced March 16.
Policymakers in the United Kingdom should reject recommendations in a House of Lords committee report that came down against industry’s push for more exceptions to current restrictions on the use of data for training artificial intelligence models, according to the tech-based Chamber of Progress.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is poised to consider bipartisan legislation that would make it even harder for U.S. vendors of artificial intelligence technology to market themselves, both at home and abroad, by requiring companies to track their users, according to the Information Technology Industry Council.
A leading proponent of Anthropic’s case against the Defense Department, in conjunction with its designation as a supply-chain risk, is suggesting that the company’s First Amendment arguments citing social media posts by top officials are not its strongest, now that the government has filed its response to the AI firm’s complaint.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Democracy and Technology have jointly filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic’s motion for a stay of the Defense Department’s supply-chain risk designation, describing the circumstances under which the company is insisting its models not be used for mass domestic surveillance.
Four major trade associations for the tech industry say the Defense Department’s designation of AI developer Anthropic as a supply-chain risk threatens the First Amendment rights of their member companies, according to a joint amicus brief submitted in favor of Anthropic’s motion for preliminary injunction.
The Foundation for American Innovation and associated parties have filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic that is tightly focused on whether the Pentagon followed provisions of the Supply Chain Security Act of 2018 in designating the company a risk to the federal government’s supply chain.
Moody’s Ratings in a report says artificial intelligence tools can identify software bugs at astonishing speed, but cautions that AI’s benefits can also inundate cybersecurity teams with more vulnerability information than they can effectively process.
Cisco’s “2026 State of Industrial AI” report says companies are enthusiastically adopting artificial intelligence in industrial operations, while finding that AI usage raises significant cybersecurity concerns among “operational leaders” who also see the technology as a promising tool for countering cyber threats.
Undersecretary of Energy for Science Dario Gil has announced the availability of $293 million in “first round” funding for 20 national challenges under the Genesis Mission to transform science and energy with artificial intelligence.
The inaugural meeting of a task force convened by the Special Competitive Studies Project and NVIDIA brought together AI leaders and educators with an eye toward producing recommendations on training and upskilling in a report for policymakers.
