Pennsylvania

Some critics of Pennsylvania cyber charters overstate how cheaply they can operate, while advocates overlook how much they receive for special-ed students and how much less they spend on buildings and transportation.

The state’s Department of Labor and Industry is funding a new 14-week paid apprenticeship program in six Pennsylvania local governments, in an effort to address the workforce demand for cybersecurity analysts.

Luzerne County employees will start learning how to use an artificial intelligence program to improve county services, with around 35 to 40 county employees slated to learn how to use Microsoft 365 GCC.

Artificial intelligence places whole term papers and complex mathematical solutions within the grasp of today’s students. Rather than simply banning it, educators must train themselves and provide what it cannot.

It’s another opportunity for eligible organizations, including local governments and municipalities, to seek part of the $1.16 billion in federal grant funding allocated to the state. The goal? High-speed Internet statewide.

Unless Lancaster city leaders take action quickly, residents may have little say in the approval process for a planned $6 billion data center announced by AI and cloud computing company CoreWeave.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Following a request for proposals in February, officials will host presentations from four vendors. The county’s existing equipment contract expires at year’s end. Luzerne is one of 13 state counties that use ballot marking devices.

If Pennsylvania caps cyber charter school tuition at $8,000 for the 2025-26 school year, school districts such as Allentown and Parkland might save between $1 million and $4 million in reallocated state funds.

Four community colleges in Pennsylvania are working with state and federal public agencies, local CTE schools and labor unions on a Career & Technology Academy and a hybrid MicroCredential Academy.

The Pennsylvania Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would make it a crime to pass off deepfake AI images as real — just in time for the federal government to potentially spike the measure.

The technology company will invest at least $20 billion to stand up multiple cloud computing and artificial intelligence innovation campuses statewide, Gov. Josh Shapiro said. Collectively, it is estimated to create 1,250 tech jobs.

A proposed new law would cap the amount Pennsylvania's cyber charter schools receive at $8,000 per student, potentially redirecting hundreds of millions of dollars from those schools to traditional public schools.

Thirty Pennsylvanians were among the lawmakers from all 50 states who signed a letter to the U.S. Congress asking for removal of language from a budget bill that would prevent states from regulating AI.