Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Sept.15, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The secretary told House Financial Services Committee lawmakers that the “best way to guarantee safety” is for AI creators to be held “liable for what they build…
The government plans to award at least three indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts for each of its identified tracks: fingerprint, face, iris, palm and multimodal.
Meteorologist Brian Kyle monitors the area weather at the National Weather Service offices Monday, May 23, 2022 in Dickinson. (Photo by Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
Agency officials say the transition away from on-premises will be a better fit for newer NWS weather systems that were designed for a cloud environment.
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel speaks during an event on Aug. 2, 2023, in McLean, Va. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also attended the event and spoke on “the significant progress that’s been made on modernizing the IRS and improving taxpayer service in the first year of the Inflation Reduction Act.” (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
A U.S. Secret Service robot dog manufactured by Boston Dynamics patrols the grounds at President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on November 18, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
From left, Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick speak at the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Sept. 2, 2026. (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images)
A logo is displayed outside of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) offices at the Constitution Center on May 30, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
Department of Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence testifies before the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee on electronic health record modernization on Sept. 2, 2026. (K. Sophie Will/Scoop News Group photo)
Voters fill out their ballots at a polling place in the Tamarack Nature Center on Aug. 11, 2026, in White Bear Township, Minn. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)