Small Businesses Gain AI Training Under Bipartisan Senate Bill

A new bipartisan bill would equip small businesses with artificial intelligence training tools to help them use and promote the emerging technology in their daily operations.

Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and committee member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) on Tuesday introduced the legislation, which would require the Commerce Department to create AI training resources and toolkits for small businesses.

“It is essential that all American entrepreneurs – especially our small businesses – have access to AI training and reskilling in the 21st-century marketplace,” Cantwell said in a statement. “This bill gives small businesses a boost with new tools to thrive ...