New Internet of Things technology is helping to monitor the operations of elevators, escalators and moving walkways in airports and other transit centers — and determine when might be best to service them.
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The state projects a savings of more than half a billion dollars over the next decade as it moves away from aging physical infrastructure and hands daily IT operations to two providers. -
Senate Bill 315, which passed with broad support in the legislature and now awaits the governor’s signature, mandates annual independent third-party audits of frontier AI models’ safety practices.
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The move comes as the state works to create money-saving AI agents and seeks to encourage more AI expertise. Other states also are striving for an edge in AI, sometimes with similar innovation labs.
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The proposed legislation from Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, would fund the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, which provides cybersecurity support to state and local governments.
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San Diego CIO Jonathan Behnke said that despite some of AI‘s drawbacks, like a loss of knowledge among entry-level workers, most employees are seeing its upsides.
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In Latah County, CIO Laurel Caldwell doesn’t anticipate adding to her staff of six full-time employees, but rather embracing new technologies by expanding their skillsets.
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Eighth graders in Louisiana are learning about carbon capture from a curriculum developed by Rice University's Tapia Center, though the program has been criticized for being funded by ExxonMobil.
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Gov. Bob Ferguson and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal indicated a cellphone ban for schools is a top priority for them, aiming for the 2027-28 school year.
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More than 200 local governments, hospitals and other entities are in the running for $272 million in federal transformation funds. The program’s design, a lawmaker said, “is almost directing us to AI.”
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State lawmakers have approved the New York Stealth Crawlers Prohibition Act. The bill, which would bar the use of deceptive bots to secretly scrape news reports, needs the governor’s signature to become law.
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The Montana School Boards Association released “boilerplate” language last fall, and school districts in Missoula, Florence and Stevensville are considering how much of that language to adopt and modify.
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A proposed law would bar companies from collecting more data than necessary for products and services, and would shield sensitive information. Next up for the bill is reconciliation.
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Evanston Township High School in Illinois canceled summer school classes, camps and other campus activities for at least two days last week following a ransomware attack that is now being investigated by the FBI.
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Colangelo’s previous gov tech experience includes the top job at Avenu Insights and Analytics, plus its successor firm Neumo. Casepoint sells tech for legal, compliance, records requests and other public-sector tasks.
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The state wants to position itself as an artificial intelligence leader and has struck a deal with Darwin AI, a startup, to move closer to that goal. The goal is to take a "foundation-first" approach to the tech.
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A new law signed June 2 makes computer science a requirement for public schools and creates the Connecticut AI Academy to develop training materials to teach students, teachers and school officials about using AI.
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