The organization’s new initiative — the AI and Emerging Technology Forum — aims to help cities, towns and villages to better understand what AI tools can do and how to use them.
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Anthropic’s Mythos AI will further compress the time between vulnerability discovery and attack, the report says, pushing cybersecurity teams to rethink defenses and operational risk. -
The one-year-old dashboard helps students plan their path to college while also offering a treasure-trove of educational and career data. The state also has increased the tool’s accessibility.
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A week before the deadline, the U.S. Department of Justice has prefiled its Interim Final Rule, which offers state and local governments a one-year extension for digital accessibility compliance.
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A new security feature is being added to California driver’s licenses and ID cards, while QR codes are intended to reduce waiting at Department of Motor Vehicles field offices.
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From Pilot to Launch: What will it take to scale AI in government?
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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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A security expert from the U.S. Department of Education warned that the most mundane tasks, like routine email updates or inadequately redacted records, are where student privacy is most vulnerable.
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The solution lets property owners track their deeds and mortgages online and notifies them of document changes. A fraud alert also informs registered notaries when their names and seals are recorded.
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The Minnesota State university system may receive $1.5 million a year for “automatic identity proofing” software that uses biometrics, document authorization and behavioral analysis to verify financial-aid applicants.
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In the second phase of its partnership with IBM, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will develop new algorithms that enable classical and quantum systems to work together to solve complex problems.
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A school district in Nebraska is contracting with the online platform Goalbook, which special education teachers said makes it easier to write individualized education plans (IEPs) so they can focus on other things.
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Committees in both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly have heard bills that would implement various restrictions and give recommendations on the use of AI in state government and certain industries.
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As AI creates uncertainty around specific technical skills, universities and employers are rethinking how to embed AI fluency, real-world experience and soft skills into education through private-public partnerships.
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Stanford researcher Chris Agnew says educational goals, not tools, should be the jumping-off point for ed-tech strategy, starting with what kids need to be able to do, then what learning experiences they need.
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Chief Information Security Officer Mike Watson, who serves concurrently as deputy state CIO, was selected after current CIO Bob Osmond was nominated to lead Delaware’s state IT office.
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The legislation would require conversational chatbots to disclose to minors they are not human, or mental health professionals. It now needs just the governor’s signature to become law.
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