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Lawmakers are continuing to take bipartisan aim at the use of artificial intelligence-powered surveillance systems and at data center development and operations.

COMMENTARY | Half of FRED’s friends are now computers. The St. Louis Fed’s response offers a playbook for every agency that publishes data.

The state is mulling how the high-profile AI initiative will tackle medical liability concerns, independent third-party analysis and other questions.

Pavan Pidugu resigned his position as the Transportation Department’s chief information officer on Sept. 4.

A new exclusion authority is the Trump administration’s latest step in a technology-enabled drive to restrict fraud, waste and abuse.

A neuroscientist built a model that scores zero on every benchmark. It made more of its users smarter than anything else she tested.

Threats against the Secret Service’s full-time protectees are up over 40% since last year. The service’s CIO and CAIO Chris Kraft said AI “can help us as we investigate those threats, monitor those threats [and] bring together correlations between seemingly disparate information.”

Neil Chaudhry, senior advisor for AI at Transportation, says the agency has worked with its partners to create “some really robust AI tools” to analyze the recipients of its research grants.

The Trump administration is laying groundwork to enlist companies against foreign cybercriminals, but payment arrangements and protections for participating firms remain unresolved.

The agency’s CIO Adam Starr described the pay table refresh as part of a broader plan to “make every part of the federal experience tech-first.”

Researchers say the alleged recording attempt shows why AI companies need tighter controls on employee access to sensitive information.

The inclusion of AI capabilities has “rightfully raised serious questions about its reliability and safety benefits,” House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Democrats wrote in a letter to GAO.

Sources describe weakening cooperation between the federal government and state and industry partners ahead of the midterms, as AI gives foreign operatives cheaper ways to produce and spread deceptive messages.

Randy Resnick has spent nearly 40 years in federal service and is expected to continue working at a software company as a chief technology officer for government.

The ranking members of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees said VA’s “citation of ‘unanticipated complexities’ as the rationale for nearly tripling the original contract remains unexplained.”

Agents seized nearly 190 laptops across Texas in a crackdown on fraudulent remote workers whose earnings help fund Pyongyang’s weapons programs.

Technology can help the half of Americans who do apply, but education efforts are needed for the half that don’t, a lawyer said.

COMMENTARY | In an autonomous enterprise, people and intelligent agents work together inside connected processes.

Ed Dubrovsky’s arrest may be linked to the FBI’s investigation into ShinyHunters. He has built a career advising organizations on cyberattacks and ransom demands.

Although Congress is in recess, lawmakers in the House and Senate still rolled out proposals over the past week looking to promote clarity around the use of — and potential harms posed by — AI tools.

The agency is seeking to fulfill ‘truthful advertising’ and fraud-busting executive orders signed by President Donald Trump.

The arrest follows action against suspected members in Jordan and the Netherlands as the bureau investigates the theft of its sensitive personnel information.

Eleven leading tech firms pledged to provide $2.4 billion in compute credits to help drive scientific research and technological innovation through the use of artificial intelligence and other emerging capabilities.

The department announced $159 million in new phase II Genesis Mission project awards, $96 million for early-career researchers and a new graduate fellowship program, along with an effort to advance the development of fault-tolerant quantum computers.