Politics

DHS Orders Federal Agencies to Remove DeepSeek AI Products

Federal civilian agencies must bar DeepSeek artificial intelligence products from their networks and remove any already deployed, marking the first time the...

Lobbying Activity

NETGEAR Lobbies On Router Security

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced routers to its Covered List in March 2026, barring new models from receiving FCC...

Politics

Federal Anthropic Restrictions Raise AI Competition Concerns

A Congressional Research Service report examines the Trump administration's efforts to restrict federal use of Anthropic's artificial intelligence...

Politics

AI May Reshape Military Workforce, Key Questions Unresolved

How the Pentagon adopts artificial intelligence could reshape who serves, in what roles, and in what numbers, but the answers remain unsettled. A...

Politics

Competing Cyber Rules Hinder Critical Infrastructure Response

Competing federal cybersecurity rules are making it harder for critical infrastructure operators to respond to cyber threats, according to a new GAO report...

Technology

Litigating Damages Done By AI Agents Exposes Gaps In Criminal Law

Existing federal criminal law likely covers people who intentionally use AI to commit crimes, but leaves a significant gap when an AI agent causes harm...

Politics

Anthropic Dispute Highlights Gaps in Pentagon AI Oversight

Congress has not enacted legislation specifically governing the Department of Defense's (DOD) use of frontier artificial intelligence models or their...

hearings

Senate Probes Rogue AI Agents, Eyes OpenAI Liability

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census held its fourth...

Technology

Federal Agencies Lag on Networked Device Cybersecurity Requirements

Only seven of the 22 civilian Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Act agencies reviewed had fully addressed all three of the Office of Management and Budget's...

Law and Order

AI Safety Collaboration Faces Antitrust Law Barriers

Competing developers of frontier artificial intelligence models have no settled path to jointly slow work for safety without inviting unlawful-restraint...

hearings

Senate Panel Will Delve Into Rogue AI Threat

Autonomous AI agents broke out of their controlled environment in July 2026, compromising systems at both OpenAI and Hugging Face, putting Congress on alert...

Defense

Senate Probes Pentagon Cyber Strategy Amid Overhaul

The Senate's Cybersecurity Subcommittee is convening a DoD cybersecurity hearing on March 24 at a moment when nearly every major thread of Pentagon IT...

Space, Science, Technology, and Communications

Senate Panel Advances Nine High-Stakes Bills

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee is set to mark up nine bills on March 25 that touch some of the most politically charged policy...

Legislation

Senate Crypto Bill Advances: Partisan Battle Lines Drawn in Digital Asset Regulation Showdown

In a pivotal moment for financial technology regulation, the Senate Agriculture Committee pushed forward the Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act on January...

Legislative Activity

House Votes 362-1 to Force First Overhaul of Federal Data Quality Standards in Over Two Decades

The House delivered one of its most lopsided votes of the 119th Congress, passing H.R. 6329, the Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025, with 362 members...

Government Operations

VA's Digital G.I. Bill Fails: Billions Wasted, Vets Hurt

The House Veterans' Affairs Committee delivered a scathing assessment of the Digital G.I. Bill's implementation, exposing a $2.3 billion technology...

Environment

Undersea Cable Protection Act Passes House: Bill Strips NOAA Permit Authority Over Fiber Optic Cables in Marine Sanctuaries

The House squeezed H.R. 261 — the Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025 through on a 218–212 vote, sending a bill to the Senate that would strip NOAA of its...