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The Moon appears dark in the picture as white sunlight leaks out around its edges. A portion of the Orion spaceship, also in shadow, is visible on the left of the image.
The Moon was backlit by the Sun during the Artemis II mission on April 6, creating a solar eclipse. The photo was taken by a camera on the Orion spacecraft. Troy LeBlanc used it in his presentation as one of many examples of NASA images. (Photo via NASA)

From space photography to mission readiness, NASA turns to AI to alleviate data influx

Microsoft and Google are among the vendors NASA is working with for mission control and image cataloguing use cases, per Johnson Space Center’s top IT official.
People walk past the headquarters of the Small Business Administration in the Southwest Federal Center area on March 24, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

SBA behind the eightball on AI use case reporting, GAO finds

The agency posted its 2025 inventory two months after the deadline. It was the first time the SBA ever released a public listing of its AI usage,…
The Health and Human Services seal on a door of the office building in downtown Washington DC on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Robb Hill for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Fewer than 1% of HHS’s AI uses are ‘high impact.’ It stands out.

The department again reported few uses slated for increased risk management practices, and demoted several systems it previously determined could have significant impact on the public.
The front doors of the Internal Revenue Service building are seen in Washington, D.C., on May 18, 2025. (Photo by Wesley Lapointe/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

IRS ramps up AI use amid staff cuts, Treasury inventory shows

The tax agency accounts for nearly half of Treasury’s AI use cases, with a heavy focus on IT and some fraud-fighting tech, but no results for “collections”…
President Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room flanked by Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank, Larry Ellison, executive charmain of Oracle, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the White House on Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Agency AI use case inventories must stay, groups tell Trump officials

A letter signed by 18 civil society organizations implores the OMB and OSTP heads to make sure agencies continue to maintain and update their AI inventories.
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