The secretary told Sen. Mark Warner that the executive order “strikes a very good balance between innovation and safety,” and disputed that the EO was scaled back…

CIA’s chief procurement officer, Effie Frangogiannis

The agency will potentially expand its artificial intelligence toolkit to help its workforce in assistive, collaborative and agentic tasks.

And, NIST’s cyber vulnerability database is plagued by poor planning and duplication

The change comes after the Department of Commerce-based agency rebranded its AI Safety Institute as the Center for AI Standards and Innovation last year.

The major challenge facing federal agencies is data readiness, rather than model access.

And, ICE sets a $25M boost for iris recognition technology

And, Anthropic’s Mythos finds more than 10,000 software flaws in first month.

The agency wants to beef up its capabilities as bad actors deploy the technology and ahead of major gatherings this year, according to documents published last week.

While the previous memo improved capabilities across the government, OMB said the new directive aims to slash the volume of data agencies collect.