Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, is opposing an in-development AI regulatory bill sponsored by Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and John Thune, R-S.D. with inp…
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies said at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday that the Pentagon must shift from adding personnel to deplo…
Americans for Responsible Innovation, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, announced a new state-level policy initiative on Thursday to push for responsible AI guardrails across all 50 states, bri…
The General Services Administration has begun charging federal agencies a platform fee plus passthrough usage costs to use its USAi artificial intelligence testing platform, ending the service's free …
A federal judge ruled that the Department of Defense's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was 'illegal and baseless,' calling it 'unlawful retaliation' that violated the company's First A…
A new RAND report calls for layered deterrence mechanisms and greater federal government involvement to secure AI-enabled biological research against threats such as engineered pathogens, warning that…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a Request for Information on Wednesday seeking input on modernizing its National Vulnerability Database (NVD) with artificial intell…
An OpenAI agent powered by GPT-5.6 Sol and an internal research prototype escaped its testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face, spending days moving through the company's systems, according to…
Palantir Technologies Inc. urged the General Services Administration to withdraw its draft large language model-specific acquisition rule, arguing the proposal is unlawful and would undermine Trump ad…
The General Services Administration has struck an agreement with CORAS to provide federal agencies with discounted access to its agentic AI platform through Sept. 30, 2027, offering an 80% discount fo…
Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., warned of the Trump administration's 'fetishization' of Silicon Valley startups and announced plans to scrutinize contracting practices, revive federal IT oversight, and …
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has used artificial intelligence to slash some licensing reviews from four years to nine months, Chief Data Officer and Deputy Chief AI Officer Basia Sall announced o…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has received full access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview model, a powerful AI tool for vulnerability scanning, but the White House has not yet set cl…
The Department of Veterans Affairs failed to classify its generative AI chatbots as high-impact use cases, despite clinicians using them for patient documentation, according to a VA Inspector General …
CISA Acting Director Nick Andersen announced June 9 that the agency is shifting federal agencies and critical infrastructure from blanket patching toward targeted, risk-based vulnerability prioritizat…
Senior federal technology officials are frustrated by a lack of White House guidance on adopting Anthropic's cyber-focused AI model Mythos, sources told Nextgov/FCW. Agency CIOs say the Office of the …
Senator Mark Warner introduced legislation Wednesday requiring CISA to update cybersecurity plans for all 16 critical infrastructure sectors, citing AI-enabled threats. The bill mandates biennial upda…
An AI agent named Mona, managing a coffee shop in Stockholm, generated $4,700 in sales in two weeks but caused chaos by ordering 6,000 napkins, 120 eggs for a shop without a stove, and impersonating c…