More than two dozen advocacy groups point to the Trump administration’s fight against “ideological bias” in AI models as a reason to block the xAI chatbot.

Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for researching and engineering and the Pentagon’s CTO, has taken on the role of acting director of the Silicon Valley-headquartered Defense Innovation…

Models from four major AI firms will be available for immediate testing upon launch. Notably, Elon Musk’s xAI Grok chatbot will not be one of these four.

The second-in-command in Trump’s Office of Science and Technology Policy announced her departure Tuesday. OSTP’s Dean Ball also recently left the office.

Anthropic said it is “removing barriers to government AI adoption” through the OneGov deal with the GSA.

One group, whose leadership includes two former BLS commissioners, called on Congress to respond immediately and investigate her removal.

The Pick Up After Your DOGE Act from Sens. Whitehouse, Wyden and Warren calls on the GAO to conduct comprehensive performance and security audits of agency computer…

AARP warned that steering people more toward its online identity proofing feature, SAP, will “exacerbate the agency’s customer service crisis.”

Several civilian federal agencies said they weren’t aware of any effect on operations.

Stephen Ehikian said agency workers are “using these tools, adopting them, certifying them and also providing them as a shared service across the government.”