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State governments are expected to deploy AI in 2026 with an increased focus on returns on investment as they face complex policymaking restrictions enacted by a recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump. -
Georgia regulators unanimously approved a massive expansion of the state's power grid Friday, approving Georgia Power's request for nearly 10,000 megawatts of new energy capacity.
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The federal government’s large annual defense act steps into staffing issues within the Space Force, requiring roughly equal staffing between operational and acquisition positions.
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As chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Sen. Sherrod Brown sounded the alarm on cryptocurrency more than a year before the meltdown of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
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Senate Bill 1398 is among the hundreds of new state laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom this legislative session. It effectively bans Tesla from advertising its vehicles as fully self-driving.
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At least 18 states have banned staffers’ use on government devices of the social media app TikTok over concerns about the possible security risks posed by the Chinese-owned company.
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A bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the country’s largest technology companies collapsed this week after a whirlwind lobbying campaign by the Internet titans Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta.
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NASA’s budget, part of a $1.7 trillion government spending bill that still needs to be voted on by Congress, is 5.6 percent more than last year's budget. It falls short of the $26 billion requested by the White House.
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The U.S. government regulates many industries, but social media companies don’t neatly fit existing regulatory templates. Systems that deliver energy may be the closest analog.
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The high-profile recent collapse of FTX might have tainted cryptocurrency trading platforms for many, but it isn’t slowing advocates’ plans to make Texas a leader in the still-growing industry.
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Gov. Charlie Baker has created the Cyber Incident Response Team in a Dec. 14 executive order. The group will be comprised of members from state government public safety and cybersecurity organizations.
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TikTok, the popular social video platform owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has been banned on government-owned devices in several states for security concerns. The latest governors to ban it are in Michigan, Nevada and Arizona.
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During a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing titled “Ensuring Solutions to Meet America’s Broadband Needs,” witnesses testified that barriers must be addressed for federal funding to see its target impact reached.
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Rep. Jared Patterson has introduced legislation aimed at keeping everyone under the age of 18 off of social media platforms like TikTok, Twitter and Facebook. The bill is the state's latest attempt to reduce the power tech companies wield.
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Last year, Gov. Hochul signed legislation to phase out the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035. But the state has also ranked in the middle of the pack nationally in electric vehicle adoption per capita.
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Maryland has approved Frederick County Public Schools' plan to conduct up to three days of virtual instruction per year on snow days, but the district hasn't decided how it will implement the idea.
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In a U.S. Supreme Court filing on Wednesday night, the Justice Department argued that social media websites should be held responsible for some of the ways their algorithms decide what content to put in front of users.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s recent announcement that it would again be delaying the deadline for compliance with federal identification requirements has prompted some to call for an end to the initiative.
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Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a ban on the use of the popular social media platform on all government-issued devices. The move comes amid growing concern about the implications of the company’s ties to the Chinese government.
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Despite policy guardrails that would have only allowed police to use a robot to kill a suspect in extreme cases, San Francisco supervisors have walked back their approval amid significant public protest.
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The social media companies and free speech advocates are joining forces in a rare cooperative effort to oppose a measure that would allow news organizations to collectively bargain with tech companies for content distribution.
