The headquarters for the US Department of Energy at Federal Office Building 5, now known as the James V. Forrestal Building on May 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)
The agency is collecting information from interested organizations that could provide foundational open-weight systems, scientific datasets for pretraining or fine-tuning expertise.
A sign masks the location of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) headquarters building on Aug. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)
Monitoring and logging are critical for agencies as they assess datasets, though “bias-free data might be a place we don’t get to,” the federal cyber agency’s CDO…
Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., speaks as Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., listens during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on May 18, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
The legislation from Democratic Sens. Welch and Luján calls on the FTC to pursue enforcement actions against companies that don’t get sign-off from consumers.