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.

Robert Osmond is in line to become Delaware’s next tech chief after Gov. Matt Meyer nominated him to the positions of state chief information officer (CIO) and head of the Department of Technology and Information (DTI).

The State of New York is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) training program to reach more than 100,000 state government employees, building on a successful pilot begun last year.

Jersey City, N.J., is planning a May 14 launch for the city’s upgraded 911 system.

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 University of Florida is leading a new statewide K-12 AI Education Task Force, which aims to provide educators with coordinated guidance for teaching and learning with artificial intelligence (AI).

The University of Chicago (UChicago) received a $50 million gift from trustees Rika Mansueto and Joe Mansueto to advance the university’s efforts on artificial intelligence (AI). The gift will support the formation of a cohort of faculty who are experts in the use of AI in research in academic disciplines across the university.

Black Girls Code, a nonprofit that prepares young girls and women for careers in technology, announced that it has partnered with Endless Access, a youth-focused game making studio and learning hub, to expand access to its summer program.

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.

California has activated its Middle-Mile Broadband Network, turning on what state officials describe as the nation’s largest open-access public broadband system, and beginning to connect underserved communities to high-speed internet service.