President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to undermine state laws on artificial intelligence (AI), calling instead for a “minimally burdensome” single framework to regulate the AI industry.

From artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital assistants that guide citizens through state portals to digital twins that model transportation infrastructure, state and local governments are finding practical pathways to put AI to work.

The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) announced a new public-private partnership that will provide $75 million advance the state’s education priorities, including bolstering science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and digital learning tools.

Public sector and higher education leaders are actively developing innovative data analytics and cybersecurity workforce models to combat escalating fraud and cyber threats.

Dartmouth College has rolled out a campuswide artificial intelligence (AI) initiative through a new partnership with Anthropic and Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving students, faculty, and staff access to Anthropic’s Claude for Education model and AWS’s Amazon Bedrock platform.

As global cybersecurity hiring begins to stabilize after years of layoffs and frozen budgets, skills gaps loom large as one of the greatest challenges facing the cybersecurity workforce, the new annual ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study found.

A new cybersecurity initiative dubbed the New Jersey Civilian Cyber Resilience Corps (Cyber Corps) aims to mobilize specialized expertise in cybersecurity response and resilience across the state of New Jersey.  

The Pennsylvania National Guard is expanding training and testing of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) – commonly referred to as drones – as they take on a growing role in modern warfare.  

The Texas A&M University System named Vince Kellen as its next chief information officer (CIO) with his appointment effective Dec. 1, the university said in a press release.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Dec.1 that a majority of its commissioners approved the agency taking legal action against edtech services provider Illuminate following a breach, “which allowed hackers to access the personal data of more than 10 million students.”