Artificial Intelligence
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In 2025, state IT focused on resilience — including recovery from a significant cybersecurity incident — and technology modernization with the CORE.NV project, setting the stage for continued progress next year. -
A 30-member California Innovation Council will include executives and leaders from the UC system, the Brookings Institute, Stanford University and the California Chamber of Commerce, among others.
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The 20th annual top 10 list of state CIO priorities from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers reflects a pivotal shift in how leaders are preparing for the next era of gov tech.
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The 2026-27 Ohio budget mandates that K-12 districts create policies to govern the use of artificial intelligence and cellphones, and offers a handful of $100,000 grants to community colleges for implementing AI.
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From traffic management to smart trash cans, Raleigh, N.C., is quickly moving to introduce artificial intelligence tools into smart city platforms and projects.
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Replika, Kindroid and Character.AI are marketed as entertainment apps or ways to help people develop emotional wellness. But some research shows prolonged interaction can lead to increased feelings of loneliness.
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The prediction came after nearly two dozen companies at this week’s Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit announced plans for more than $90 billion in development projects across Pennsylvania.
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AI models are trained to optimize outputs, but in educating children, the process is the point. If we assess children only in terms of what can be “trained,” we repeat the mistake of emphasizing output over experience.
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The communications, community engagement and compliance tech company has launched its first AI chatbot, and the company’s CEO recently discussed its inner workings.
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In light of federal plans to phase out FEMA by the end of 2025, artificial intelligence can help multiply and streamline state and local preparation for, response to and recovery from wildfires, hurricanes and floods.
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The city of San Francisco is making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat available to roughly 30,000 employees in an effort to improve services while also launching training to support staff use of the technology.
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The technology company said that it plans to spend about $25 billion in the region to build out its data center and AI infrastructure in the next two years.
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The inaugural Energy and Innovation Summit will convene at Carnegie Mellon University and feature President Donald Trump, who is making his second visit to Western Pennsylvania in less than two months.
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There are conflicting studies on the impacts of AI on education so far, and the outcome of the newly announced AI academy led by OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic will depend on what and how it teaches.
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A new $23 million initiative by the American Federation of Teachers, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthology aims to train 400,000 educators in ethical, effective use of AI in the classroom by 2030.
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A new executive order in the state calls for the use of agentic AI within a regulatory review process aimed at reducing excessive requirements as part of a broader modernization effort in Virginia.
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California’s statewide power grid operator is poised to become the first in North America to deploy artificial intelligence to manage outages, MIT Technology Review has learned.
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Pennsylvania's House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill regulating the use of deepfakes in election campaigns, joining a growing list of states trying to put guardrails on the technology.
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Former University of Pennsylvania tech leader Rob Nelson said small, cross-functional teams, local experimentation and faculty-centered support can unlock meaningful innovation in applications of AI.
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The state’s 911 tech management authority is deploying a new tool from Motorola Solutions that could ease burdens for call takers and dispatchers. It could also help agencies deal with hiring woes.
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Microsoft Elevate, which the company describes as a successor and expansion of the longtime Microsoft Philanthropies team, will devote resources to helping more than 20 million people earn AI credentials.
