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LOS ANGELES - Vice President Kamala Harris posted a short video this weekend showing her visit to Venice Bakery and Restaurant located at 10943 Venice Blvd. in Los Angeles to mark Small Business Saturday.
"It was wonderful to visit Venice Bakery & Restaurant on Small Business Saturday as we honor the work that small business owners and employees are doing across the nation to grow our economy and support our communities," Harris wrote on X in a message with the video. "When we invest in small businesses, we invest in America."
Blue skies and ideal weather welcomed Southern Californians who turned out by the thousands to honor their myriad neighbors who served the nation in the armed forces.
Among the most homespun of tributes, the San Fernando Valley Veterans Day parade returned on Saturday at 11:11 a.m. as it does on the holiday each year.
A new bipartisan bill seeks to limit the risks of artificial intelligence by requiring federal agencies to adopt safety standards around the emerging technology’s use.
Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Thursday proposed the legislation, which would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology to provide guidance to agencies to deploy AI safely and securely.
A group of House Democrats reintroduced legislation on Friday to curtail law enforcement’s use of facial recognition software, citing concerns about how unrestricted use of the technology could erode Americans’ constitutional rights.
Recent conversations at the White House and in Congress are grappling with the governance of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly whether to prescribe legislative or regulatory guardrails, or allow for self-regulation. With AI technology transforming various sectors, including healthcare, finance, and transportation, the governmental scrutiny will persist. Recently, the U.S.
Embroiled in controversy and a crisis of ethics, the United States Supreme Court continues to hand down decisions in direct opposition to precedent, the Constitution, and public opinion. The court has taken a MAGA right turn because of extremists’ concerted effort to transform it into their political weapon. What was once intended to be an apolitical body of reason has now become an arm of partisan extremism.
Representative Ted Lieu made history this year when, in January, he introduced the first-ever piece of federal legislation written by AI. Using ChatGPT, he prompted the technology to write a comprehensive congressional resolution in his own style and voice, expressing support for Congress to regulate AI. Out came a resolution that he didn’t even need to edit. “AI already has reshaped the world in the same way that the steam engine reshaped society,” the California Democrat says over Congress’s August recess.
Lawmakers in Washington don’t need to be tech experts to regulate artificial intelligence, but they also don’t have the expertise to regulate it on their own, according to Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.).
U.S. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles) and Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-New Mexico) re-introduced the 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project Act on Aug. 24 to create a new grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor to hire America’s unemployed and underemployed journalists and writers to document the American experience. Between late 2019 and May 2022, more than 360 newspapers closed and the country is on track to lose more than one-third of its total newspapers by 2025.
California Representative Ted Lieu thoroughly debunked the Republican talking point that the FBI has been weaponized against them by pointing out the obvious: The Trump administration was already packed with “criminals.”