Research from the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley shows that those states passed a total of 99 bills, with the majority of them passing between one and three pieces of legislation.
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From San Jose, Calif., to Washington, D.C., cities are advancing AI training for staffers or members of the public. Mesa, Ariz., recently launched its own AI education initiative to support adoption. -
A recent blog post from Anthropic, a large AI company in the U.S., signals that the tech can help governments "modernize" legacy systems based on that old language. The stakes are high, as so much still runs on COBOL.
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The company collects intelligence from disparate public agencies that could help suppliers craft better proposals and pitches. The funding reflects the growing role of AI in government procurement.
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Officials have formally named Bryce Bailey the state’s chief information security officer, elevating him from the interim role after nearly a month in place. Cybersecurity, he said, “is a long game.”
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As fears of an AI “bubble” persist, officials and gov tech suppliers are looking to move past pilots and deploy larger, more permanent projects that bring tangible benefits. But getting there is easier said than done. -
Artificial intelligence has been dominant for several years. But where has government taken it? More than a decade after the GT100's debut, companies doing business in the public sector are ready to prove their worth.
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The boom of early Internet in the mid-1990s upended government IT. The rise of artificial intelligence isn't exactly the same, but it isn't completely different. What can we learn from 30 years ago?
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Elementary and middle school students in Wake County, N.C., aren’t allowed to use their phones at all during the school day, but the district is considering an exception for recording video for safety reasons.
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A police official said that Flock Safety is providing one drone on loan for the town police force to try out, and they intend to start using it to get aerial coverage of Lewiston’s summer events.
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Several signs suggest 2026 could be a tipping point for Florida when it comes to large-scale data centers, the facilities that house thousands of servers for AI and other tech programs.
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services is funding eight projects to position cultural institutions as community hubs for AI education and workforce training.
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Staff at New York City's more than 1,800 schools will wear wireless buttons on their lanyards, designed by the Florida company SOS Technologies to directly contact first responders and dispatch emergency personnel.
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The mayor and Board of Selectmen in Putnam, Conn., will convene this week for a special meeting regarding the police department’s use of license plate readers and security cameras in town.
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According to the senior ed-tech director for Tucson Unified School District in Arizona, the key to drafting an AI policy that works for everyone in the district is to get input from people in a diverse mix of roles.
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An additional layer of tech is helping the state’s Employment Development Department, targeted by fraudsters during the COVID-19 pandemic, smooth out identity verification and make defenses harder to penetrate.
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School officials say students are improving their skills at open source intelligence gathering, steganography and network traffic analysis through an annual cybersecurity competition at Danville Community College, Va.
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More data centers may be built in the Tucson area as well as the controversial Project Blue — one slated for Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and another complex in the far north end of suburban Marana.
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