The agency is collecting information from interested organizations that could provide foundational open-weight systems, scientific datasets for pretraining or fine-tuning expertise.

And, the Senate advances a bill to eliminate education requirements in federal contracting jobs.

The Postal Service is drawing on international AI pilots to streamline operations and potentially save money amid its budget crisis, the Office of the Inspector General said.

And, a senate bill looks to extend TMF’s new project deadline.

Unlike the House bill, the upper chamber’s continuing resolution would allow the Technology Modernization Fund to finance new projects through Dec. 11.

Energy CIO Dawn Zimmer joins the show to discuss that and more.

The group of public interest and left-leaning organizations urged Congress to open an investigation into an OpenAI model that went rogue.

And, the Pentagon CIO issues department-wide directive on IT buying

The latest district court hearing comes after parties released documentation leading up to the Anthropic ban and designation as a supply-chain risk.

Tech leaders from across agencies and industry said the government must work together to use AI to fix broken systems, not just use it as a band-aid.