On this week’s Priorities podcast, Texas CIO Amanda Crawford says the state’s advisory council will guide the state’s embrace of generative artificial intelligence.

https://statescoop.com/state-government-generative-ai-uses/

Also on the podcast, U.S. Virgin Islands’ Bureau of Information Technology Deputy Director Jonathan Tucker outlines his approach to digital transformation.

In the news this week:

Colorado’s Department of Higher Education waited more than a month to report a massive data breach to the state attorney general’s office, evading state law, according to an investigation by the Denver Gazette.

https://statescoop.com/colorado-data-breach-disclosure/

Contracts for technology services awarded to a private firm in Orange County, New York, are drawing scrutiny from state legislators after an alleged conflict of interest was discovered between the contracted company’s owner and the county’s human resource coordinator.

https://statescoop.com/orange-county-ny-tech-contract-scrutiny-scandal/

Civic technology nonprofit Code for America announced it’s reached a collective bargaining agreement with its union, CfA Workers United, after nearly two years of negotiations.

https://statescoop.com/code-for-america-ratifies-first-union-contract/

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