Artificial Intelligence

Nuclear Regulatory Commission to examine more nuanced requirements for AI

A regulatory gap analysis said the NRC’s current federal regulations “are fairly flexible enough to adapt to artificial intelligence,” according to a data scientist with the agency.

OpenAI brings its large language models to Energy’s national labs

As OpenAI expands access to its large language models to all national labs, scientists at nationals labs anticipate workloads that usually take decades to be reduced to “two or three” years.

How DeepSeek changed the future of AI—and what that means for national security

China’s breakthrough is an opportunity for American companies to build more efficient tools. That will also help the U.S. military.

OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Gov for federal agency use

The new chatbot brings the same capabilities from the public model to government-approved and secure cloud environments for federal workloads.

Report: agencies’ adoption of GenAI depends on safe and ethical principles

Governments need to adhere to ethical AI principles and comply with regulatory guidance to effectively use GenAI capabilities, according to a recent IBM report.

Trump signs AI executive order

The order calls for the development of an AI action plan and sets up a process for revoking actions taken under President Biden’s previous AI executive order signed in October 2023.

Industry launches $100B AI-infrastructure effort to keep ahead of China

Oracle, OpenAI focus on data centers as AI race begins to turn on computing power instead of math.

Trump axes Biden’s AI executive order

President Donald Trump vowed to repeal the order during campaigning and in his presidential platform.

Accenture Federal’s new CEO eyes AI-driven transformation during Trump 2.0

Ron Ash sees agencies as having opportunities ahead to modernize legacy systems and improve efficiency by harnessing the power of new tools like agentic artificial intelligence.

US ‘has to win’ the AI innovation race, OpenAI exec says

Senior Vice President of Global Affairs Chris Lehane commended a recent executive order opening federal land to AI data center development and posited ways to encourage states to back AI development.

Biden orders federal land to be leased for AI data center development

The executive action will leverage federally protected lands to develop data centers capable of supporting AI software, with a priority on incorporating clean energy sources.

USPTO debuts 2025 AI strategy

The agency aims to introduce automation to support patent and trademark application processing.

HHS AI plan looks to the private sector for collaboration

Public engagement and collaborative partnerships with the private sector “throughout the innovation pipeline” can help ensure that AI tools are being equitably used and deployed, HHS said in its AI strategic plan.

AI tools can help reduce climate risks, State strategy says

The release of the National Adaptation and Resilience Planning Strategy comes as a series of wildfires continue to burn across the Los Angeles area.

VA accounts for majority of all agencies’ safety- and rights-impacting AI

Of the 1,757 total AI use cases reported by federal agencies last year, 227 of them were listed as safety- or rights-impacting. VA accounted for 145 of those identified use cases.

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AI startup Anthropic to build out public sector team

Thiyagu Ramasamy, formerly of Amazon Web Services, will lead the effort.

DHS launches new AI playbook for public sector

The new guidance is intended for other government organizations to use and draws on lessons learned from three internal pilot programs.