Concerns about the energy used by digital technologies are not new. Near the peak of the dot-com boom in the 1990s, a Forbes article lamented, “Somewhere in America, a lump…
Comments to NTIA on Dual Use Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models With Widely Available Model Weights
In this submission, the Center for Data Innovation encourage U.S. policymakers to learn lessons from past debates about dual-use technologies, such as encryption, and refrain from imposing restrictions on foundation…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office arguing that training artificial intelligence (AI) systems on copyrighted materials or using AI to produce creative works…
The Center has submitted comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on the proposed rule for supervising large non-bank participants in the general-use digital consumer payment application industry. The proposed…
The last few years have seen some users gravitate toward decentralized Internet services–such as Mastodon and Peertube—as alternatives to centralized “Big Tech” platforms. But recent bills and regulations from the…
UK Tech Secretary Michelle Donelan Recommits to Innovation But Her Ambition to Achieve Tech Superpower Status May Be Hindered By Her Own Party
The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, delivered her main 2024 priorities for the UK on January 16, 2024 in a speech focusing on how to…
Virginia’s Governor Glenn Youngkin recently issued Executive Order 30, a five-part directive intended to boost the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within state government agencies, law enforcement, and education. Notably,…
Report Urges Crackdown on Digital Pill Mills Among Reforms to Strengthen and Expand Legitimate Telehealth Services
WASHINGTON—Telehealth services became invaluable to millions of Americans struggling with mental health issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, but bad actors are tarnishing the reputation of the expanded telehealth industry by…
The Civic Mapping Initiative, in partnership with Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation based in Delaware, have created a dataset to map community and technical colleges in the federal Postsecondary Education Participant Systems (PEPS).…
The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has introduced a new version of the global surface temperature NOAAGlobalTemp dataset. This update incorporates information from an artificial neural network (ANN) to…