The discussion draft would authorize $100 million per fiscal year for a Center for AI Standards and Innovation and calls for oversight in government AI adoption.

The Department of Energy’s national labs have already partnered up with Japanese research institutions to form working groups that will focus on a subset of AI challenges.

The secretary told Sen. Mark Warner that the executive order “strikes a very good balance between innovation and safety,” and disputed that the EO was scaled back…

CIA’s chief procurement officer, Effie Frangogiannis

The order, which Trump refrained from signing at the last minute, appears to make significant concessions to industry compared to earlier drafts.

The agency will potentially expand its artificial intelligence toolkit to help its workforce in assistive, collaborative and agentic tasks.

And, NIST’s cyber vulnerability database is plagued by poor planning and duplication

The change comes after the Department of Commerce-based agency rebranded its AI Safety Institute as the Center for AI Standards and Innovation last year.

And, a House panel will lock in on AI’s impact on cyber in forthcoming hearing

And, ICE sets a $25M boost for iris recognition technology