Center for Data Innovation

CNN recently filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, alleging that the company copied more than 17,000 CNN articles, videos, and images to power its AI search products without permission or…

WASHINGTON— Following the release of Reps. Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan’s discussion draft of the Great American AI Act, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Associate…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from May 30, 2026, to June 5, 2026, featuring Amazon’s new warehouse robot that can understand verbal instructions and research testing a virtual-reality…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming virtually every industry, and the public sector cannot afford to fall behind. State lawmakers across the country have passed laws that create new opportunities to…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Rossen Kolev, CEO of Smart Farm Robotix, a Bulgaria-based company developing AI-powered agricultural robots that identify and remove weeds without herbicides. Kolev…

Following President Trump’s new executive order on AI innovation and cybersecurity, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Michelle Lopes Maldonado, associate director of AI policy: Today’s…

Geospatial company Taylor Geospatial and Microsoft AI for Good Lab have created an interactive visual called Fields of the World that catalogs agricultural land across the world. The project uses…

Microsoft has partnered with Northwestern University and the non‑profit organization Witness to create a dataset of AI-generated and manipulated images, audio, and video designed to improve deepfake detection. The collection…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from May 23, 2026, to May 29, 2026, featuring scientists using satellite-linked sensors to detect animal behavior linked to poaching threats and a…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Mike CYK, co-founder of StarfetchX, a Malaysia-based company providing an AI-powered carbon-accounting platform that measures and analyzes emissions across corporate operations and…

As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms every industry and people’s everyday lives, AI-powered cyber threats have gone from theoretical predictions to operational realities. Google’s Threat Intelligence group revealed in May 2026…

NASA has used its satellite-mapping project, Black Marble, to track changes in artificial nighttime lighting across Earth from 2014 to 2022. By merging data from three satellites and adjusting for…

Researchers at Florida State University have created a dataset compiling research on microplastics in cities’ rainwater runoff around the world, called the Dataset of Urban RUnoff Microplastics (DURUM). The dataset…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from May 16, 2026, to May 22, 2026, featuring researchers using an AI system to map disappearing hedgehog habitats across the U.K. and…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Ari Isaak, the founder of Photometric AI, a San Diego-based company developing an AI-powered platform that designs and manages street-lighting systems. Isaak…

Spain-based research center the Institute of Evolutionary Biology has created a visualization showing how Indigenous populations across the Americas are genetically related and distributed. The map highlights diversity across 53…

U.K.-based medical research center OpenBind has created a dataset designed to measure how potential drug molecules attach to disease‑related proteins. The dataset contains 800 different experiments generated through rapid molecular…

In recent months, critics of artificial intelligence (AI) have increasingly argued that the technology threatens the economy by destroying jobs, exacerbating income inequality, and even catastrophically collapsing consumer demand. These…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from May 9, 2026, to May 15, 2026, featuring a robotic therapy seal helping patients manage anxiety and researchers using AI-driven image analysis…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Ana Beik, CEO of Golden Owl, a Spain-based company providing an AI-powered intelligence platform that analyzes geopolitical events and supply-chain risks. Beik…