May 2025 Archives| Center for Data Innovation
WASHINGTON—Following the announcement that the U.S. government will allow Nvidia to resume sales of its H20 chip to the Chinese market, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Director Daniel Castro: “The decision to allow Nvidia to resume sales of its H20 chip to Chi| Center for Data Innovation
In its push for digital sovereignty, the European Commission is reportedly planning to replace Microsoft Azure with the French cloud provider OVHcloud or another European alternative. But this move, while politically symbolic, would be costly. Far from enhancing security, this migration would sacrif| Center for Data Innovation
WASHINGTON—In response to the U.S. Senate vote to remove the 10-year moratorium on state AI laws from the reconciliation bill, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Director Daniel Castro: Today’s Senate vote to strip the 10-year moratorium on state AI laws from the R| Center for Data Innovation
LONDON—In response to the UK government’s release of its new Industrial Strategy and the accompanying Digital and Technologies Sector Plan, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Ayesha Bhatti, head of digital policy for the UK and EU: The UK’s new Industrial Strategy| Center for Data Innovation
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state, has announced plans to abandon Microsoft's productivity suite for open-source alternatives by mid-2025, framing the decision as a reduction in both digital dependencies and costs. But the reality is that the government is prioritising political symbo| Center for Data Innovation
State lawmakers across the United States are taking aim at the practice of using personal data to algorithmically tailor prices to different consumers. Unfortunately, their proposed state bills conflate data-driven pricing with harmful practices such as discriminatory or deceptive pricing. That misu| Center for Data Innovation
LONDON—Following the passage of the Data Use and Access Bill, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Ayesha Bhatti, head of digital policy for the UK and EU: The passage of the Data Use and Access Bill is a major step forward for the UK’s digital economy. The Bill prov| Center for Data Innovation
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers May 17, 2025 to May 23, 2025 and includes articles on using AI to simulate urban planning designs and robots that can navigate spaces humans cannot reach. 1. Accelerating Short-Form Animation Invisible Universe, a U.S.-based animation company| Center for Data Innovation
States are racing to regulate artificial intelligence, creating a patchwork of laws that threatens to slow innovation, drive up compliance costs, and undermine U.S. global competitiveness. In 2023, the National Conference of State Legislatures tracked over 450 AI-related bills introduced across all| Center for Data Innovation
The Center for Data Innovation submitted comments to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee on its Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill consultation. The Center offered three recommendations for the Committee, including: The proposed bill should clearly define what type of data falls withi| Center for Data Innovation
After years of negotiations, EU policymakers have finally arrived at an agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), a new European law to regulate this emerging technology. One point of debate until the final hours was how the EU should address open-source AI—AI models that developers mak| Center for Data Innovation
The Washington Post has published a visualization showing the winter temperature changes from 1980 until 2024. It shows winters are getting warmer in most of the contiguous United States, with 86 percent of the country experiencing winter warming since 1980. The warming is fastest in New England.| Center for Data Innovation
The Center for Data Innovation submitted comments to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s independent body set up to uphold information rights, on its generative AI consultation. The Center provided evidence on the first chapter of the consultation relating to the lawful basis for w| Center for Data Innovation
A newly introduced bill in the Florida Senate would require online marketplaces, such as Amazon and eBay, to verify and disclose the location of third-party sellers. However, online marketplaces already provide this information to consumers because a recent federal law requires them to do so. Moreov| Center for Data Innovation
The Center for Data Innovation submitted comments to Ofcom, the regulator of communications services in the UK, on its first major consultation on the Online Safety Act. The Center offered several recommendations for how Ofcom could improve and refine its proposals, including: Ofcom should not| Center for Data Innovation
California State Senator Scott Wiener introduced a sweeping new AI bill this month designed to ensure providers of highly capable AI models mitigate existential threats, either from their systems going rogue or from enabling humans to use them in extremely dangerous ways, such as creating biological| Center for Data Innovation
This week’s list of top data news highlights covers February 3, 2024 to February 9, 2024 and includes articles on identifying dogs using neural networks to assess the personalities of dogs and improving recycling accuracy with AI. 1. Predicting Antidepressant Responses Researchers at Amsterdam| Center for Data Innovation
Food research website Pantry & Larder has published a graphic showing the price of a Big Mac at every McDonald’s location in the United States, as of 2023. The cheapest Big Mac was $3.49 in Stigler, Oklahoma and the most expensive Big Mac was in Lee, Massachusetts for $8.09. Take a look.| Center for Data Innovation
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Andris Merkulovs, the CEO and founder of Monetizr. Monetizr is an Atlanta-based start-up that creates personalized in-game advertising for mobile games. Merkulovs spoke about the role of gamification in enhancing user experience and the scalability of Moneti| Center for Data Innovation
The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations tracking changes in the sizes of bird populations in the United States. It shows changes in the average number of sightings of different birds during birding expeditions from 2012 to 2022. According to the visualizations, while changes in ab| Center for Data Innovation
The Center has submitted comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to assist the agency in carrying out its responsibilities under sections 4.1, 4.5, and 11 of AI executive order. In this submission, we make three main points: NIST should work with other federal a| Center for Data Innovation
The Center has submitted comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on the proposed rule for supervising large non-bank participants in the general-use digital consumer payment application industry. The proposed regulation would cover several different types of consumer products, includin| Center for Data Innovation
The UK government released its response to the UK AI Regulation White Paper consultation on 6th February 2024, outlining a new pathway for “agile” artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. It confirmed plans to place greater responsibility on existing sector-specific regulators to oversee the develop| Center for Data Innovation
Marcus Bokkerink, Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), delivered a keynote speech to the AI Fringe Hub on November 1, 2023. In his speech, Bokkerink discussed the balance between competition and consumer protection through the lens of AI, before evaluating the broader digital contex| Center for Data Innovation
Concerns about the energy used by digital technologies are not new. Near the peak of the dot-com boom in the 1990s, a Forbes article lamented, “Somewhere in America, a lump of coal is burned every time a book is ordered online.” The authors of the article, which became widely cited in subsequent yea| Center for Data Innovation
An independent team of researchers has created a dataset of wordplay puzzles that require users to add or subtract letters from words to identify a phrase. It contains 333 puzzles from 13 categories, such as major cities and food. Researchers can use the dataset to improve multimodal AI systems that| Center for Data Innovation
Labelled the “Snooper’s Charter” for permitting mass digital surveillance in the UK in the name of public safety, the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016 is under scrutiny once again following the announcement late last year in the King’s Speech of a bill to amend the original law. The proposed amen| Center for Data Innovation
The New York Times recently sued Microsoft and OpenAI, claiming that their AI services, such as ChatGPT and Copilot, have unlawfully utilized the New York Times’ content and demanding they dismantle all large language models (LLMs) trained on its articles. However, the newspaper’s complaint misrepre| Center for Data Innovation
Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology, Seoul National University, and Yonsei University in South Korea have created a dataset of video clips of laughter. It contains nearly 900 clips of audiences laughing during TED talks and sitcom shows, as well as annotations explaining why t| Center for Data Innovation
After a deadly crash in the Washington, D.C. metro system in 2009, government officials suspended the use of automatic train operations (ATO), a system that automatically accelerates and brakes trains between stations. Despite later investigations finding ATO was not to blame for the accident and de| Center for Data Innovation
