The Department of Education finalized a policy on Monday that prioritizes artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives in discretionary grant competitions, following feedback from more than 300 public comments on the proposal first issued last year.

Florida Attorney General (AG) James Uthmeier said Thursday that his office is launching an investigation into OpenAI and its ChatGPT tool, citing national security concerns and alleged use of the chatbot in a recent mass shooting.  

The Trump administration’s fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget request for the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) takes broad aim at the office’s effectiveness and proposes to cut its annual funding by more than a half billion dollars from the FY 2025 level.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has appointed Jeffrey Bardzell as the Worcester, Mass.-based technological university’s new Peterson Family Dean of Arts and Sciences, heading up its computer science academic department and interdisciplinary programs in artificial intelligence (AI), among other areas.

Bellingham, Wash.-based Whatcom Community College is launching a new bachelor of science in computer science degree that it says focuses on increasingly in-demand skills.

A bipartisan pairing of House members has introduced legislation that would direct the Education Department to award up to $10 million in grants to promote the integration of cybersecurity education into career and technical education programs that benefit the U.S. critical infrastructure workforce.

Key cybersecurity bills aimed at securing the nation’s energy infrastructure and electric grid are advancing to the full House Energy and Commerce panel after passing out of the House Subcommittee on Energy.

A new nonprofit aims to expand artificial intelligence (AI) literacy and prepare the next generation of technology leaders through an integrated ecosystem of virtual and place-based skills-building programs.

Nearly $4.2 million in grant funds distributed by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will create artificial intelligence (AI) projects across the nation to support K-12 AI learning. 

The National Science Foundation (NSF) said it is making $2.4 million of funding awards to several U.S.-based universities that are doing work on six international research projects aimed at leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) tech for agricultural applications.