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Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., speaks onstage at the 2024 CARE International Women’s Day Dinner at National Museum of the American Indian on March 13, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for CARE)

New bill aims to narrow AI hiring gap between government and industry

Bipartisan, bicameral legislation would overhaul agency and OPM hiring practices for artificial intelligence and tech talent.
A sign on a rural road in Saline, Mich., opposes a planned $7 billion data center on southeast Michigan farm land. (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Environmental groups to Congress: Take a timeout on AI data centers

More than 230 orgs urged lawmakers in a letter to enact a nationwide moratorium on the approval and construction of data centers amid soaring energy demand and…
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Close-up of phone screen displaying icon for Anthropic Claude app, a Large Language Model (LLM) powered generative artificial intelligence chatbot. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

HHS rolls out Claude departmentwide

The launch of the tool comes a couple months after the department rolled out ChatGPT as part of the OneGov deals via the General Services Administration.
Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., attends a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen building on June 18, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Amid AI boom, Senate Democrats eye agency-led push to protect workers

A bill from Sens. Blunt Rochester, Hirono and Schiff charges the departments of Labor, Commerce and Education with studying AI’s effect on the workforce and awarding grants…
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