Todd Young Archives

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., speaks to reporters following a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation meeting in April 2024. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Bipartisan National Quantum Initiative reauthorization introduced in Senate

The initiative to bolster quantum research partly expired Sept. 30, 2023. A House bill of the same name advanced out of committee last year.

Dec 4, 2024 By Madison Alder

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 07: Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) speaks at a press conference alongside U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) about the Senate Democrats expanded majority for the next 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol Building. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Bipartisan Senate bill would renew CDO Council, require ‘AI readiness’ work

The Chief Data Officers Council would be required to report to Congress on best practices for data management related to emerging technology and AI, among other things.

Sep 23, 2024 By Madison Alder

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., speaks at a microphone as Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., listen after an AI Insight Forum in November 2023. — Sen. Mike Rounds speaks after a November 2023 AI Insight Forum in the Senate. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Biomedical data center, financial services reporting included in Rounds’ AI bill package

Five bills from Senate AI Caucus co-chair Mike Rounds, R-S.D., proposals touching health, financial services and defense.

Aug 30, 2024 By Madison Alder

SK hynix’s logo is seen outside its office in Seongnam in January 2024. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

Commerce, South Korean chip maker sign preliminary terms for investment in Indiana-based plant

The terms would provide federal incentives for SK hynix’s work building a packaging and R&D facility for artificial intelligence products.

Aug 6, 2024 By Madison Alder

U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D, N.Y., and Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., speak to reporters following a Senate Forum on Artificial Intelligence in the Russell Senate Office Building on October 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

Government AI funding among priorities in Senate working group roadmap

The roadmap for artificial intelligence policy encourages the executive branch and appropriators to support $32 billion in annual innovation funding.

May 15, 2024 By Madison Alder

Sen. Chuck Schumer — Sen. Charles Schumer (Senate Democrats / Flickr)

NSF would rebrand, wield $100B for strategic tech research under Schumer bill

The bipartisan Endless Frontier Act would rename the agency the National Science and Technology Foundation to fit an expanded mission.

May 27, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir