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The Biden administration is wading into a contentious debate about whether the most powerful artificial intelligence systems should be "open-source" or closed. The White House said it is seeking public comment on the risks and benefits of having an AI system's key components publicly available for anyone to use and modify. The inquiry is one [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said this week that the government intends to provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont. The announcement is the third award of direct financial support for a semiconductor company under the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act. The [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration struggled to properly vet and monitor the homes in which they placed a surge of migrant children who arrived at the United States-Mexico border in 2021, according to a federal watchdog report released last week. The Department of Health and Human Services is required to screen adults who volunteer [...]
McALLEN, Texas (AP) —After a record-breaking number of encounters at the southern border in December, the number of arrests for illegal crossings on the United States border with Mexico dropped by half last month, authorities reported last week. The largest decrease was in the Del Rio sector that includes Eagle Pass, Texas, the main focus [...]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to stop dirty money from flowing through the U.S. financial system with a slew of new rules aimed at increasing corporate transparency and regulating occupations that are exploited for money laundering. As the second anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine approaches and the war in Gaza [...]
Robert Kennedy Jr.'s presidential ambitions resulted in public family drama after a political action committee aired a Super Bowl ad invoking the Democratic family's legacy to implicitly compare the independent candidate to his assassinated uncle, President John F. Kennedy. The 30-second spot, financed by the American Values 2024 Super PAC that is backing Kennedy, featured [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's administration has backed off of its plans to impose rules that advocates feared would have restricted gender-affirming medical treatment for adults in a way no other state has. The rules proposed by two state departments would have required the psychiatrists, endocrinologists and medical ethicists to have roles in [...]
LOS ANGELES — Three months after an arson fire at a state-leased storage space shut down a major Los Angeles freeway, California transportation officials are recommending changes to the leasing program that would explicitly ban storage of hazardous materials such as wood pallets and gasoline and provide more scrutiny of people who want to rent [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is setting tougher standards for soot pollution, saying that reducing fine particle matter from tailpipes, smokestacks and other industrial sources could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year. Environmental and public health groups hailed the new Environmental Protection Agency rule finalized Wednesday as a major step in improving the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration earlier this week announced it is rolling out a new policy that will allow it to impose visa restrictions on foreign individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware. The administration's policy will apply to people who've been involved in the misuse of commercial spyware to target individuals, including [...]