Lynne Parker

This photo provided by The White House shows Lynne Parker. The computer scientist made breakthroughs in getting robots to work together so they could perform difficult missions, like cleaning up after a nuclear disaster, waxing floors or pulling barnacles off a ship. Her job now is getting the U.S. government working together — alongside American businesses, research universities and international allies — as director of a new national initiative on artificial intelligence. (Keegan Barber/The White House via AP)

Deputy US CTO Lynne Parker, top federal AI expert, leaving government

A top artificial intelligence expert in the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations is leaving government.

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File - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The U.S. will close the last avenue for Russia to pay back its billions in debt to international investors on Wednesday, making a Russian default on its debts for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution all but inevitable. The Treasury Department said in a notification Tuesday that it does not plan to renew the license to allow Russia to keep paying its debtholders through American banks. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP, File)

Yellen memo calls for IRS modernization to help ID tax evasion schemes perpetrated by top earners

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OMB looks to address AI transparency, consistency in upcoming guidance

A top White House official on artificial intelligence, following an executive order prioritizing artificial intelligence research in government, said the…

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IRS is having trouble outing tax cheats under its own roof

In today’s Federal Newscast, TIGTA found the IRS doesn’t always follow its own procedures for reviewing and adjudicating cases of missed filings or under-reported…

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Trump signs executive order fostering artificial intelligence R&D in government

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday expanding his administration’s efforts to foster research and development of artificial intelligence tools.

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