Artificial Intelligence
GOP Financial Services report cites AI as both fraud accelerator and preventer
With AI playing a more prominent role in the scammer’s playbook, the report says “the counter to this is ensuring that those empowered to prevent and respond to fraud and scams — namely public and private sector entities — deploy the same tools.”
White House accuses Chinese AI developer of IP theft
Tech policy leadership in the White House say Moonshot AI illegally trained its model off of Anthropic’s Fable.
Genesis Mission kicks off with over 270 projects
Each project chosen by the Department of Energy focuses on advancing a critical scientific area with the help of artificial intelligence.
US AI labs are emerging target for foreign spies, experts warn Congress
Former officials told the House Intelligence Committee that U.S. agencies have not kept pace with China’s push to obtain advanced American AI technology.
Transportation looks to AI to accelerate its modernization initiatives
Steven Bradbury, the agency’s deputy secretary, said AI has helped Transportation slash its software production timeline from 18 months down to 18 weeks.
Energy expects $74M in annual savings from new AI and data tools
The agency is expanding an enterprise data platform to all department elements and increasingly using artificial intelligence in daily operations.
AI won’t replace human claims processors, VA officials say, as Democrats worry over staffing levels
Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill., said some VA employees report claims processing technologies are producing incorrect information.
OpenAI’s advanced GPT-5.6 models to be publicly released
After working alongside government partners for safety evaluations, OpenAI said it is “expanding preview access globally” for its latest powerful model series.
GenAI.mil records almost 1.7M users, plans new model additions
“It's just a really exciting time for generative AI in the department,” the Pentagon’s chief artificial intelligence officer said.
US to lift export controls on key Anthropic models
Anthropic’s cybersecurity-focused Mythos 5 and Fable 5 are expected to be reactivated for respective users following permission from the Commerce Department.
CIA will take ‘smart risks’ and ‘course correct’ as it adopts AI, director says
“We simply can’t afford to wait for a risk-free approach to emerging tech. It doesn’t exist. We have to move fast. We have to be aggressive,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said.
OpenAI releases new GPT-5.6 model to select partners
The approach is similar to Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and follows a Trump administration request that the company limit access.
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AI has helped to slash nuclear licensing review times, NRC official says
Some reviews that once took four years to complete are done in nine months, NRC Chief Data Officer and Deputy Chief AI Officer Basia Sall said on Thursday.
Agencies look to AI to improve hiring and build workforce skills
The chief human capital officers also emphasized the importance of improving the skillset of the mid-career workforce.
Parts of NSA lose Mythos 5 access amid Anthropic supply chain dispute
The access issue comes as the Five Eyes alliance is warning that frontier AI could soon accelerate both cyberattacks and cyber defense.
Meet Mona, the AI Who Runs a Stockholm Coffee Shop
From the outside, Andon Cafe looks like any other coffee shop.
HHS issues call for AI to support its ‘power users’
The Department of Health and Human Services is ready to test what advanced artificial intelligence capabilities can best serve its staff that rely on more specialized AI features.
3 priorities for federal CISOs in the agentic era
COMMENTARY | As agentic AI use spreads across government, agencies need to develop security programs, craft playbooks for mitigating incidents and simulate adversarial attacks.
Industry and academia call on administration to free Anthropic’s AI model
Over 30 industry and academic professionals signed a letter to the Trump administration asking it to lift export controls, citing international competition and patches to network vulnerabilities.
Anthropic suspends top AI models after U.S. export control order
The company said it would disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the government imposed export controls on those products, citing national security concerns.
