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The Oklahoma Health Care Authority’s new AI tool aims to help answer eligibility questions from the state’s Medicaid program members to reduce wait times and expand access to information. -
Bend-La Pine Schools in Oregon is reviewing ed-tech programs, creating a website page for ed tech for transparency, ensuring tech for grades K-2 is developmentally appropriate, and looking at device privacy and security.
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A public community college in California will soon offer half a dozen new AI-focused credentials and an associate degree that covers the basics of AI, with a focus on responsible AI development and ethical practice.
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Most Michigan voters don’t want a data center in their backyard. But that opposition softens with safeguards in place, like a guarantee that the power-hungry facilities won’t hike electric rates.
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Harvard Business School found that women are adopting AI tools at 25 percent lower rate than men. Girls Who Code CEO Tarika Barrett says mentorships and clearer AI policies have roles to play in changing that.
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The Indiana Office of the Secretary of State is leveraging AI to improve efficient service delivery. This includes the recent launch of a financial literacy program and a new phase of the notary education platform.
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Law students at the University of California, Berkeley, will no longer be allowed to use AI for most class assignments and exams, after professors kept finding misrepresented or non-existent cases cited in their work.
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The legislation comes as Michigan and other states begin to dive into AI regulation, and as the data centers that help them run continue to dominate the public conversation during an election year.
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At the NASCIO Midyear Conference, Georgia CIO Shawnzia Thomas described how the state is approaching AI leadership and literacy, making sure everyone has the tools they need and the skills to use them.
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A tech industry executive from Palo Alto Networks offers a preview of how emerging AI models will soon disrupt the security landscape.
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The city and the chamber of commerce, along with workforce, business and education folk, are planning the Haverhill AI Summit in June. It is intended to help attendees become aware of and prep for AI.
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About 2,100 IT and technical employees across the University of California system voted to join the labor union over concerns about mass layoffs in the tech sector, as well as growing workloads without any added pay.
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City commissioners in Harlingen, Texas, are setting a 120-day moratorium on applications for data center projects as they study their impacts on the community, its natural resources, and the environment.
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The website, for the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office, expands efforts to centralize information on rules, forms and requirements for people and business. An AI assistant helps users navigate the portal.
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Technology’s ability to collect information and AI’s capacity to analyze it are helping mobilize smarter and more connected cities, transportation officials said recently.
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President Donald Trump is poised to issue an executive order aimed at bolstering artificial intelligence cybersecurity and has asked tech industry leaders to join for the event, according to sources.
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As cities and counties turn to AI to ease permitting, one company is offering a new, free program through which officials can learn about the technology's potential to solve agency-specific problems.
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Glass works with 120 agencies and, with this latest effort, hopes to erase some of the friction when the public sector procures AI technology. The effort reflects larger gov tech procurement trends.
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Seniors graduating from Louisiana State University Shreveport say AI will be a powerful tool in the digital arts, and possibly even a competitor, but they're optimistic that human creativity will still be valued.
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Students graduating from Glendale Community College in Arizona expressed frustration at the decision to have names read aloud by an AI system, which derailed the ceremony by messing up or skipping hundreds of students.
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The fact that students are booing AI shows that some of the most intense skepticism about the technology is coming from those who use it the most. They fear its anticipated effect on society and their personal lives.
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