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This effort to speed up the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting’s ability to process new building permit applications is scheduled to begin next month, city officials say.

A Georgia agency has ordered regional planning commissions to pause reviews of new data center proposals because of an unprecedented wave of projects being pitched across the Peach State.

The owner of hydroelectric plants at Holtwood and Safe Harbor in Pennsylvania has agreed to sell Google massive amounts of electricity generated by the Susquehanna River dams to power some Google data centers.

A recent report by Common Sense Media says three quarters of teens have used AI companions, which are designed to be agreeable and validating. More than a third found them more "satisfying" than interacting with friends.

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.

Supporting cutting-edge research at colleges and universities — even, or especially, in its earliest stages, before anyone can know for sure what will come of it — has been paying dividends for society for generations.

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The North Carolina Department of Transportation is entering a one-year pilot project with transportation firm Flow Labs to more closely analyze traffic and signal data from thousands of intersections.

From traffic management to smart trash cans, Raleigh, N.C., is quickly moving to introduce artificial intelligence tools into smart city platforms and projects.

As the federal government scales back support for public-sector cybersecurity, and services from MS-ISAC poised to end this fall, states and local governments move to defend themselves.

CIO Mark Wixon is committed to leading the South Dakota Bureau of Information and Technology in a way that fulfills its role of helping other state agencies deliver on their unique goals through tech.

Projects announced at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University this week included new workforce training programs as well as cybersecurity education for middle and high schoolers.

As police use the cameras within areas that have high crime rates, civil liberty advocates have expressed concerns over personal privacy and more government intrusion into everyday lives.

Plans to power Meta's $10 billion AI data center have reached a key stage with the opening of a hearing aimed at weighing Entergy's proposal to build three new electricity plants in connection with the facility.

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.

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.

Broken Bow Public Schools fell victim to a sophisticated phishing scam in the form of an email containing false payment instructions that appeared to come from a trusted vendor in ongoing construction projects.

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.

Mature ITSM helps agencies manage increasing complexity, growing workloads and rising user expectations.

On a webcast Tuesday co-hosted by the Public Technology Institute, NASCIO Executive Director Doug Robinson called it "unlikely" that the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program would be reauthorized.

The exponential growth of data in the information age has not necessarily coincided with more effective education technology. Making the most of this data will require trust and conversation between multiple parties.

The communications, community engagement and compliance tech company has launched its first AI chatbot, and the company’s CEO recently discussed its inner workings.

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.