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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.
New York City banned generative AI for students through eighth grade News
New York City Public Schools announced a one-year moratorium on generative AI for students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade on September 2, 2026, allowing only limited teacher-supervised pilots in high schools.
A House bill would tax AI tokens and raise the rate when unemployment rises News
H.R. 10044, the AI Tax and Work Protection Act, would place an excise tax on foundation-model usage starting at 2% of token value and escalating automatically as the national unemployment rate climbs above 5%.
The White House's Open-Weight Carve-Out Is a Private Briefing, Not a Published Rule News
Reporting says the White House finished an AI framework that covers only closed frontier models and will not publish it, but the only public legal instrument is June's Executive Order 14409, which contains no definition of open-weight, no US-origin condition and no mandatory testing regime to be exempt from.
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.