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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a D.C. crowd this week that the Biden-era AI Safety Institute would be rebranded as the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, as a “place where people voluntarily go to drive analysis and standards.”

“As we move from large language models to large quantitative models, and we add all these different things, you want a place to go,” Lutnick said. “We say, has someone checked out this model? Is this a safe model? Is this a model that we understand? How do I do this? And we’re not going to regulate it. We are going to enhance the voluntary models of what great American innovation is all about.”

Lutnick’s remarks came at the inaugural AI Honors this week, held by the Washington AI Network at the Waldorf Astoria.

The rebrand reflects a more hands-off approach that the Trump administration has taken to AI,...

Washington, June 4 (Ians) Two US senators have proposed a new bill to Congress that seeks the Food and Drug Administration (Fda) to issue cybersecurity guidelines for medical device security more regularly, according to media reports. The legislation, first reported by CyberScoop, comes from Senators Jacky Rosen and Todd Young. It also requires the Fda […]...

The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court battle has turned into one of the most contentious nominations in our nation’s history. President Trump’s nominee has been accused of past sexual assaults and of being dishonest before the Senate.

Despite testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote on September 28th. Following an unaccountably incomplete investigation by the FBI, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared a key procedural hurdle, setting up a final vote this weekend.

On Friday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-me) delivered...