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Government processes for evaluating, approving, or restricting AI tools and vendors for official use, covering security reviews and procurement rules.
The Pentagon labeled a vendor a supply chain risk by social media post, then conceded in court it had no evidence for the kill-switch capability it cited. Procurement should read designations as claims, not findings.
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A judge in the Northern District of California ruled on the merits and struck the designation down on constitutional, statutory and APA grounds. For vendor-risk teams, the lesson is that a federal exclusion can be scoped around and can then evaporate.
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OpenAI and xAI now sit inside the Pentagon's own portal, where 1.7 million of 3 million staff already hold accounts. Anthropic won a contract in the same round and got no placement, which is where the gate actually sits.
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MIT Technology Review's 15-month investigation into US border surveillance puts the failure downstream of the cameras, at the step where a detection was supposed to turn into an agent arriving.
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Trump's AI Force is still one Truth Social post with no budget, legal home or launch date. The platform that already decides which models reach Defense Department desks accredits them at Controlled Unclassified Information.
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The airlines spent weeks asking the FAA to narrow SMART, and the version debuting this month hands controllers route advice at the three Washington-area airports under a 90-day test. The agency's own officials describe it as both record speed and a slow roll.
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From October 1, federal, state, local and tribal agencies pay for what they consume, with no platform fee and no minimum, under a 27-month agreement that arrives while the Claude and Gemini OneGov terms expire.
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ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government cleared Impact Level 5 and went live on a portal that has signed up more than 1.7 million of over 3 million defense staff in nine months. Claude, which beat Hegseth's blacklist in court, is still not listed.
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The rule keyed on an attribute Anthropic could not check at request time, so denying everyone became the only compliant state. That is how export policy ends up in your dependency graph next to the database.
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The Defense Department wanted Anthropic's terms rewritten to permit all lawful uses. Anthropic said no, lost federal agencies and contractors for months, and now has a district court calling that ban illegal.
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Politico reports AI-drafted legislation is landing on an office of 78 attorneys who cannot decline it. The drafting cost did not disappear. It moved downstream.
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