Ruth Reader

6 days ago | politico.com | Ruth Reader

The FDA is gathering up AI talent. The Food and Drug Administration is bringing on new artificial intelligence talent and wooing back tech talent it cut during its in April. On Thursday, the agency said it would roll out . Sridhar Mantha, former director of the FDA’s Office of Strategic Policy within the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, has returned, according to two people with knowledge of the move who were granted anonymity to speak about sensitive personnel matters.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Ruth Reader

The FDA wants to replace animal testing with artificial intelligence. | Jeff Roberson/AP With help from Anthony AdragnaThe rise of AI promises a lot of big changes, and one of them is going to be warmly welcomed by mice, rats and zebrafish. The Food and Drug Administration wants to replace animal testing with artificial intelligence, POLITICO’s Lauren Gardner reports. Politically speaking, the change has wide support. In 2022, Congress passed a bipartisan law, co-sponsored by Sens.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Ruth Reader |Shawn Zeller

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Facebook and Instagram, is flooding Washington with ads lawmakers to require his rivals’ app stores to verify shoppers’ ages and require parental consent for kids to download social media apps. If he succeeds in making Google and Apple the focus of kids’ safety legislation, it will show how much headway he has made with his Republican skeptics in Congress, Ruth reports. How’s that?

3 weeks ago | benton.org | Ruth Reader

To protect kids online, Mark Zuckerberg says Congress should focus on Apple and Google — not Facebook and Instagram. The Meta CEO, owner of the two social media sites, is flooding Washington with ads aimed at convincing lawmakers to require his rivals’ app stores to verify shoppers’ ages and require parental consent for kids to download social media apps.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ruth Reader

To protect kids online, Mark Zuckerberg says Congress should focus on Apple and Google — not Facebook and Instagram. The Meta CEO, owner of the two social media sites, is flooding Washington with ads aimed at convincing lawmakers to require his rivals’ app stores to verify shoppers’ ages and require parental consent for kids to download social media apps.