Ivy Tech Community College Terre Haute and Vigo County School Corporation in Indiana partnered for a second year to offer TechQuest, a weeklong career exploration camp for local rising eighth graders, the college announced in a June 18 press release.

Researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) Cancer Center and UH Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine were awarded more than $12 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a new medical artificial intelligence (AI) and data science research center on the Kakaʻako campus, the university announced June 21.

High school teachers across the country will build artificial intelligence (AI) skills, earn industry-aligned credentials, and get support for bringing AI lessons into their classrooms through free training programs from the National Applied AI Consortium (NAAIC).

The New York State Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) announced an enterprise cloud services agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will make AWS artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services available to state employees over the next three years at a lower cost.

While phishing volumes fell globally for a second consecutive year, government organizations saw attacks jump from 92 million to 138 million as threat actors shifted toward high-value targets.

The Stanford Digital Economy Lab launched the AI Economic Indicators on June 10, a free platform designed to track how artificial intelligence is affecting work, productivity, and value creation across the economy, according to a press release.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced on June 16 the first recipients of the state’s Cybersecurity Remediation Grant Program, a $1 million statewide initiative to help municipalities and school districts strengthen cybersecurity protections and reduce cyber risk.

Warner wants CISA to detail staffing losses, regional vacancies, and cybersecurity service impacts amid workforce reductions and proposed budget cuts.

The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) announced on June 16 that it will assume leadership of the Cybersecurity Rubric and Certified Cybersecurity Rubric Evaluator (CCRE) program through a strategic partnership with ClassLink and the Cybersecurity Coalition for Education (CC4E).

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced on June 9 that the state will migrate executive branch data from outdated physical servers and multiple data centers to a cloud environment through Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Cognizant Government Solutions will take over day-to-day IT operations.