Category: Business

Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources Geoffrey R. Pyatt will travel to Athens, Greece and Istanbul, Türkiye October 8-10, 2024, for ministerial and private sector meetings on regional energy transitions and energy security priorities. In Athens, Assistant Secretary Pyatt will discuss advancing U.S.-Greece energy cooperation with senior Greek officials including from the Office of the Prime […]

EIT Digital is back with its prestigious EIT Digital Champions 2025. In this 12th edition, it will select 50 of Europe’s best deep tech scaleups to participate as finalists. These finalists will have the chance to pitch their businesses in front of a panel of international venture capital investors and fundraising experts. From this pool […]

Antitrust law has long recognized that monopolies stifle innovation and gouge consumers on price. When it comes to Big Tech, harm to innovation—in the form of  “kill zones,” where major corporations buy up new entrants to a market before they can compete with them—has been easy to find. Consumer harms have been harder to quantify, […]

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which handles all prosecutions in the Seattle area, has instructed police in no uncertain terms: do not use AI to write police reports…for now. This is a good development. We hope prosecutors across the country will exercise such caution as companies continue to pedal technology – generative artificial intelligence […]

Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose W. Fernandez will travel to Serbia from October 9-11 to advance our cooperation through the Minerals Security Partnership Forum on developing diverse and sustainable critical minerals supply chains. He will also promote trade and economic opportunities with the United States. In Belgrade, Under Secretary Fernandez […]

Iberdrola Efficient Wind Measurement Campaigns for Turbine Assessment Challenge is focused on identifying startups that offer innovative wind measurement technology to enhance the efficiency of turbine assessments across large wind farms. Iberdrola is inviting startups offering flexible, easily deployable devices designed to optimize turbine performance through precise data collection, including wind speed, wind direction, and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Employees and management at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have achieved a first-ever labor contract, they jointly announced today.  EFF employees have joined the Engineers and Scientists of California Local 20, IFPTE.   The EFF bargaining unit includes more than 60 non-management employees in teams across the organization’s program and administrative staff. The contract covers the […]

“It’s a double win when demining – which is always a good thing – is linked to sustainable agriculture and energy security, even when a conflict is ongoing,” according to Chris Loughran and Camille Wallen. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the nation has become one of the world’s most heavily mined […]

                         Governments increasingly rely on algorithmic systems to support consequential assessments and determinations about people’s lives, from judging eligibility for social assistance to trying to predict crime and criminals. Latin America is no exception. With the use of artificial intelligence (AI) posing human rights challenges in the region, EFF released  today the report Inter-American Standards […]

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Prime Minister, thank you very much.  Thank you for welcoming us back to Laos.  And thank you for your leadership as ASEAN chair this year. I also want to thank Dr. Kao for his stewardship of ASEAN, and also Cambodia – and Prime Minister Hun Manet, for serving as our U.S. country coordinator, […]