At the same time, joining Sacks in praising the rule is Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist and a leading critic of AI on the right. “It’s not perfect,” he told us. “But directionally, it is pretty damn good.” As Bannon sees it, despite the fact the order is weaker than earlier versions, codifying rules is a step in the right direction.

Albania has appointed the world’s first-ever AI government official in hopes of rooting out some of the Balkan state’s long-running corruption. As Politico Europe reports, the new AI minister — which should not be confused with a minister of AI ...

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Chief data officers (CDOs) are calling for a more coordinated strategy across the federal government — especially regarding artificial intelligence (AI). A new survey, Five Years of Progress and the Road Ahead: Insights from the 2024 Survey of Federal ...

At the 2023 AI Summit, from Potomac Officers Club, Central Intelligence Agency Director of Artificial Intelligence Lakshmi Raman discussed the importance of prioritizing AI in light of the mounting sophistication of near-peer adversaries like China and ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Feb 11, 2025 at 8:00 am February 10, 2025 at 1:33 pm Official AI, a ...

The full and final text of the EU AI Act, the European Union’s landmark risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence, has been published in the bloc’s Official Journal. In 20 days’ time, on August 1, the new law will come into ...