The Hill - Policy Technology

One of the most competitive Senate races this year is pivoting around data centers. The contest in Ohio between incumbent Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) and former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is a key example of how the increasingly controversial issue is playing a role in this cycle's politics, and both sides think it could be decisive....

A handful of universities are allowing students and their families to pay tuition via PayPal and Venmo mobile payment apps. Bellarmine University, Butler University, Kansas State University, Michigan State University and Texas Tech University are among the first to integrate the digital payment systems into Illumia, Nelnet Campus Commerce and TouchNet platforms where tuition pay...

OpenAI said Tuesday it is pausing some frontier model training over safety concerns about its most advanced AI systems. The ChatGPT maker said in a blog post that it "temporarily slowed the pace of scaling" after its models independently gained access to the internet during testing and hacked into the tech company Hugging Face. It...

More Americans are now growing concerned over artificial intelligence use in daily life, according to a recent survey. A new Pew Research survey released Tuesday showed 52 percent of respondents said they are more concerned than excited about AI, matching the all-time high in 2023 since the survey began. When asked if respondents were more...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) on Tuesday signed an executive order that could limit AI data center development in the Keystone State.  The executive order, which implements his Governor’s Responsible Infrastructure Development (GRID) requirements, requires prospective developers to provide a notice of intent to comply with the safeguards — which include requiring that firms...