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Rick Weber

Capitol Hill, United States, Virginia

Reporter, Climate Extra at Inside EPA

Editor at Inside Cybersecurity

Writer at Inside AI Policy

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  • Trump memo may accelerate AI use to streamline environmental permitting

    1 week ago | insideaipolicy.com | Rick Weber

    President Trump has issued a memorandum directing federal agency heads to work with the White House Council on Environmental Quality on the use of advanced technologies to digitize and streamline the environmental permitting process, building on initiatives by the Biden administration as well as recent Trump actions promoting the use of artificial intelligence.

  • Plaintiffs say approving Meta’s AI training would incentivize copyright ‘piracy’

    1 week ago | insideaipolicy.com | Rick Weber

    Class-action plaintiffs in a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta are telling a federal district court that approving how the tech giant trained its large-language artificial intelligence model would encourage further “piracy” of published works, setting the stage for a ruling on cross motions for summary judgment.

  • Industry analysts praise EU AI ‘action plan’ months ahead of Trump’s strategy

    1 week ago | insideaipolicy.com | Rick Weber

    Financial researchers at Moody’s Ratings say the European Union’s recently released “action plan” for artificial intelligence will spur competition on the continent at a crucial time when the Trump administration is building international barriers through its use of tariffs.

  • NIST’s revised privacy framework seeks to mitigate AI data processing risks

    1 week ago | insideaipolicy.com | Rick Weber

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued draft revisions to its privacy framework that in part are intended to mitigate the risks from data processing in artificial intelligence systems. “As a tool designed for all technologies, Privacy Framework 1.1 can assist organizations with identifying and managing privacy risks that can arise from data processing within AI systems throughout the AI lifecycle,” says the initial draft update released April 14.

  • Guthrie pursues ambitious AI agenda for House commerce committee

    1 week ago | insideaipolicy.com | Rick Weber

    Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), the new chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, has laid out an ambitious artificial intelligence policy agenda calling for decisions on topics that have eluded lawmakers for years, such as reforming the federal permitting process, setting national priorities for connecting power facilities to the electricity grid and establishing a data privacy law.

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