Policy

Cities would be prohibited from contracting with vendors to collect speeding fines from automated traffic cameras under a proposal that took its first legislative step Tuesday at the Iowa Capitol.

Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Technology Services and Security’s first deputy secretary, Erica Bradshaw, plays an instrumental role in guiding planning for the agency and the state.

Part of Gov. Kathy Hochul's budget proposal would cover tuition at any public community college in New York for adults studying fields such as advanced manufacturing, technology, engineering, AI or cybersecurity.

The Federal Trade Commission will bar the automaker from sharing customer geolocation and driver behavior with consumer reporting agencies for five years. The first such order, it will last 20 years, GM said.

Plus, $117 million in NTIA grants go out, Indiana funds county broadband expansion, the E-BRIDGE Act is now the law of the land, new legislation aims to support rural broadband development, and more.

The order is designed to make it more difficult and expensive for bad actors to target American institutions and organizations online. It is intended to make sanctions against them more effective.

The U.S. Access Board highlighted its initial findings on the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence for people with disabilities, offering recommendations to promote responsible use.

The executive order calls on the federal departments of Defense and Energy to each identify at least three locations for private-sector data centers. It seeks to balance construction, consumer cost and environmental impact.

As COVID-19 pandemic relief funds expire, a new State Educational Technology Directors Association report outlines a path toward permanent funding for K-12 universal connectivity and related digital access measures.

The state’s new AI Enablement Strategy and AI Study Roadmap is intended to advance artificial intelligence through a five-part strategy that includes directing further studies on the technology, in critical domains.

A bill with bipartisan support in the statehouse seeks to end the state’s Real ID program by repealing its underlying statute. The state representative behind it said it is expensive and puts Mainers’ privacy at risk.

Public- and private-sector leaders are guarding against artificially generated impersonations, AI-generated disinformation and scams. But, officials say, their task is becoming increasingly difficult and complex.

Now that phone ban policies have been in place for a semester, North Texas school leaders and parents say they’re helping limit distractions in class, which keeps students more engaged.

State and local officials as well as electric utilities are grappling with how to manage explosive data center growth while keeping the lights on and complying with laws for a transition to clean power.

Lawmakers this session will consider whether to mandate that political campaigns disclose the use of artificial intelligence in ads to create a realistic depiction of something that never took place.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal for a balanced state budget would spend $168 million to “standardize and streamline data collection” across state community colleges. It would also create two new entities.

The outgoing administration may have notched a win with its elevation of broadband as a societal necessity, but observers were critical of other aspects of its plan to expand the technology nationwide.

A New York state assembly bill could bring some of the ideas in a failed AI safety bill from the Golden State. The Responsible AI Safety and Education Act would, chiefly, require deployment safety plans from AI companies.