Regional Innovation Clusters enjoyed bipartisan support for 15 years. Then Elon Musk’s group canceled awards and left backers of the tech startup initiative searching for answers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection cars are parked on a street in New York City. (Photo by: Plexi Images/GHI/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The agency has deployed license plate readers and predictive algorithms to monitor Americans’ movements near and far from borders, per AP reporting, leading to stops, searches and…
The lawmakers pushed the commission in a letter to “take immediate action” to ensure Americans aren’t footing the bill for the nationwide buildout of data centers.
An aerial view of a 33 megawatt data center with closed-loop cooling system is pictured on Oct. 20, 2025 in Vernon, Calif. A surge in demand for AI infrastructure is fueling a boom in data centers across the country and around the globe. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
A letter to OSTP’s Michael Kratsios and Commerce’s Howard Lutnick demands answers over surging electricity prices connected to the buildout of AI data centers.
The Environmental Protection Agency flag flies outside the EPA headquarters in Washington on Aug. 7, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
People walk past the headquarters of the U.S. Small Business Administration on March 24, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
William Kirk said the watchdog would “appropriately look at” possible violations of security standards in response to Sen. Markey’s question about a Wired story on unvetted DOGE…
The White House’s AI Action Plan seeks to accelerate permitting and upgrade the grid to power data centers, chipping away at environmental protections along the way.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks as Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., looks on at a news conference following weekly party policy luncheons at the Capitol in July 2024. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
The Senate Democrats demanded agencies using AI for “consequential” uses, like job applications or hospital treatment, create and maintain a civil rights office.
The Student Privacy Policy Commission would create a panel to determine which federal and state laws around student data privacy are working and which aren't.