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NIST Awards Over $1.8M to Small Businesses Advancing AI, Semiconductors and More

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 20, 2025 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded over $1.8 million to 18 small businesses under the Small ...Full Article

HAL 2.0: Are Agentic AI Models Starting to Show Consciousness and a Will to Survive?

Maybe you recall the famous sequence from the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The spacecraft’s HAL 9000 computer lip-reads that the two resident astronauts believe it is behaving erratically and plan ...Full Article

Fortanix Expands Encryption Platform with NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2025 -- Fortanix, Inc., a leader in data-first cybersecurity and a Confidential Computing pioneer, has announced new capabilities to its data encryption and key ...Full Article

Privacera Aligns AI Governance with NIST Standards to Mitigate AI Risks

FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 20, 2025 -- Privacera, the AI and data security governance company founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, has announced significant updates to its AI Governance ...Full Article

Trump Rescinds Biden’s AI Order, Announces $500B Investment in AI Infrastructure

President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders during his first day in office, including one that rescinded his predecessor’s order addressing AI risk. The new president indicated ...Full Article

NIST Announces Funding Opportunity for AI-Focused Manufacturing USA Institute

GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 22, 2024 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced an open competition for a new Manufacturing USA institute focused on the ...Full Article

NIST Q&A: Getting Ready for the Post Quantum Cryptography Threat? You Should be.

With the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set to publish the first Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standards in a few weeks, attention is shifting to how to ...Full Article

Domino Furthers Commitment to Responsible AI with NIST AISIC Membership

April 11, 2024 -- In this recent blogpost, Domino's Yuval Zukerman discusses the burgeoning field of AI and its inherent risks, emphasizing the significance of Domino's recent NIST AISIC ...Full Article

NIST Launches AI Safety Institute and 200-Member Consortium

The U.S. Government made two big announcements this week to help drive development of safe AI, including the creation of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, or AISI, on ...Full Article

NIST Puts AI Risk Management on the Map with New Framework

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the AI Risk Management Framework, document intended to help organizations voluntarily develop and deploy AI systems without bias and ...Full Article
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