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Virginia does not have statewide data center regulations, so local governments are stepping in to regulate. It’s weird, right? Virginia has 1/3 of the world’s data centers and its’s a free for all. Virginia Legislature passed HB 1601 (2025 | VA) to regulate dalta centers and the bill was vetoed by the Governor. The veto message said local governments […]

R Street Institute is warning of the cyber risk from agentic AI. This is the AI agent who helps you navigate a government service, a company, etc… layers of agentic service are vulnerable to cyber attack including the agent’s perception layer, data poisoning, the AI agent’s reasoning module, its action module, & memory module. Route […]

Bonjour to American Innovators Network the new kid on the block lobbying on state AI regulations. The American Innovators Network is a coalition of early-stage artificial intelligence startups and venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz.   City & State NY | ‘Little tech’ lobby starts campaign against AI regulation bills

On June 6th, a new Executive Order rolled back executive orders from Presidents Obama and Biden which strengthened digital identities. Experts warn that this new order opens the door for more digital identity theft. It also offers no replacements. Politico Weekly Cybersecurity.

 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill that would limit state power in regulating AI. Texans signing this letter include: Representative Angie Chen Button, Texas House of Representatives Representative Josey Garcia, Texas House of Representatives Representative Donna Howard, Texas House of Representatives […]

5 competitively bid, congressionally authorized semiconductor manufacturing projects have been cancelled. These include already announced projects such as n aerospace HUB in WA & ID and a biotechnology center in AL. Some say these issue is that these projects included collaborations between health science centers and historically Black colleges and universities and had inclusion and […]

A datacenter project in Kansas City received planning commission approval for the 550-acre business park for construction of a $12.6 billion data center. The project is sensitive to nearby landowners and seeks to provide a great of a buffer as possible such as  eight-foot earth berms, 3,000 trees and other landscaping to obstruct the view […]

This month, Oregon became the 2nd state to ban the sale of precise geolocation data. Maryland passed a similar bill in 2024, which will be effective this fall. Other states such as Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont are considering similar legislation. Similar legislation failed to pass this spring in California. The Record | Oregon becomes second […]

Montana amended its genetic privacy law this May. SB 163 added protections for neural data.

Arizona’s Supreme Court is utilizing AI reporters to deliver its opinions. The public information officer insists that the human touch is required to confirm the information and push the information to news outlets. NBC | Arizona Supreme Court turns to AI-generated ‘reporters’ to deliver news