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D.C. Circuit upholds Pentagon procurement exclusion of Claude News
A divided federal appeals court upheld a Department procurement exclusion of Anthropic for Department work, treating enforceable model restrictions as a possible supply-chain reliability risk rather than finding Claude generally unreliable.
The Pentagon put Grok on the platform 1.7 million of its people already use News
The Department of War added Starshield AI's Grok for Government to GenAI.mil on August 31, 2026, a platform accredited for controlled unclassified information that has signed up over 1.7 million of the department's roughly three million personnel in nine months.
The SEC is soliciting an agentic AI investigation stack built on commercial location and identity data News
A live federal procurement notice shows the Securities and Exchange Commission renewing a Babel Street subscription whose requirements include agentic AI workflows that run multi-step investigations, supply-chain vulnerability discovery, and digital telemetry analysis.
The White House science blueprint reroutes research toward AI - without moving a dollar yet News
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released Science: A New Golden Age on July 21, proposing to reorient federal research around individual investigators, fast grants, AI-ready data and automated labs - an agenda-setting document that specifies no reallocation of funds.
Austria Starts Rolling Out GovGPT, a Sovereign AI Run on Its Own Data Centers News
Austria began deploying GovGPT to over 180,000 federal staff, processing all queries on national computing infrastructure with no third-party sharing, making sovereignty a matter of operating model rather than a single AI.
Altman is briefing Washington on OpenAI's next models, not launching GPT-6 News
Bloomberg reports that OpenAI's Sam Altman plans to brief Trump-administration officials and lawmakers next week on the company's upcoming model generation and its effect on work, but no primary source confirms a GPT-6 release date, and the meeting appears tied to a June executive order building a frontier-model safety-review process.
OpenAI Is Reportedly in Early Talks to Give the US Government a 5% Stake News
OpenAI is reportedly in early discussions about the US government taking roughly a 5% stake in the company, worth about $42.6 billion at its current $852 billion valuation, ahead of its planned September 2026 IPO.
California will use Claude at half price across its state agencies News
On June 29, Governor Newsom announced a first-of-its-kind deal giving all California state agencies -- and interested cities and counties -- access to Anthropic's Claude at a 50% discount plus free training, one of the largest U.S. public-sector AI agreements.
The US fully lifts its export ban on Anthropic's most powerful models News
Two and a half weeks after restricting Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Washington reversed course completely, ending the licensing requirement to send the models abroad.