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Weekly AI News Roundup

This week, members of Congress continued examining AI's effects across key sectors, including education, energy infrastructure and cybersecurity. Here is an overview of recent moves made by members of Congress to address AI:

→ Owens announces a hearing on higher education in the AI era: The House Education and the Workforce Committee's Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah), will hold the seventh hearing of its ongoing series examining artificial intelligence. The hearing is scheduled for June 3 at 10:15 a.m. in 2175 Rayburn House Office Building and will be livestreamed on the committee's YouTube page.
https://hubs.la/Q04jB14f0

→ Evans, Dean press FERC on data centers: Reps. Dwight Evans (D-Pa.) and Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) are seeking answers on how federal regulators are addressing data centers' AI-driven power demand, grid reliability and potential costs to consumers.
https://hubs.la/Q04jBxjq0

→ Ogles announces AI cybersecurity hearing: The House Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, chaired by Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), will hold a hearing on how frontier AI models, agentic AI systems and AI coding tools are reshaping cyber threats, critical infrastructure resilience and U.S. cyber defenses. The hearing is scheduled for June 4 at 10:30 a.m. in 310 Cannon House Office Building.
https://hubs.la/Q04jBk3b0

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