A sign marks the location of the General Services Administration headquarters building on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)
A view of the Microsoft corporate logo in front of the Microsoft Office building on 41st St. and 8th Ave. on July 19, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is silhouetted as a pre-recorded interview with Elon Musk is played during the Microsoft Build 2025 conference in Seattle on May 19, 2025. Nadella announced that Grok AI, by Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI, will be available on Microsoft’s Foundry Models. (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)
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.
Zach Whitman, chief AI officer and chief data officer of the General Services Administration, speaks during Salesforce’s Agentic AI Government Summit + Jamfest, presented by FedScoop, on Aug. 19, 2025. (Scoop News Group photo)
Zach Whitman, the agency’s CAIO and CDO, acknowledged there are “drawbacks” to a shared service like USAi, but emphasized it is intended for agencies’ general use cases.