The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted on Wednesday to approve the bipartisan Future of AI Innovation Act that would provide congressional authorization for the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI), among numerous other provisions. […]

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted today to approve the Creating Resources for Every American To Experiment with AI Act of 2023 (CREATE AI Act). […]

A panel of cyber experts expressed their support this week for the most recent congressional effort to create national data privacy standards, but also voiced some criticisms of draft legislation released last month to push those proposed standards forward. […]

Officials from academia and the private sectors told senators last week that the United States needs to speed its efforts to develop advanced technologies – including artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information science (QIS), and distributed ledger tech (DLT) – to stay ahead of rapid development in those areas by China. […]

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee today postponed a scheduled vote on the nomination of Gigi Sohn to become FCC commissioner, as a Democratic member of the committee was sidelined with health problems. […]

Sens. Roy Blunt, R-Mont., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, introduced the Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act yesterday in a bipartisan effort to regulate facial recognition technology to protect consumers and their data. […]