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AI's growing role in rulemaking raises new transparency questions
As the Trump administration pursues an aggressive deregulatory agenda, concerns are mounting that artificial intelligence could make agency decisions harder to explain and defend.
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NIST unveils new AI evaluation platform
The AI Technology Evaluation will provide exclusive data to grade models’ performance in select areas.
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Over 30 companies form open-source AI alliance
Helmed by NVIDIA, the Open Secure AI Alliance looks to shore up industry support for continued access to and work with open-source artificial intelligence models.
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State department releases playbook for generative AI
The playbook cites the development and deployment of StateChat, an enterprise chatbot, as a case study for other federal agencies eyeing the technology.
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Lawmakers introduce bill mandating kill switches for AI models
Bipartisan lawmakers are seeking to ensure advanced AI models can be quickly shut down following ChatGPT’s automated attack on Hugging Face data networks during internal testing.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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