GSA memo to set AI-specific acquisition rules
The General Services Administration issued a memo signed by Senior Procurement Executive Jeffrey Koses adding a "Basic Safeguarding of Data within Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence Systems"…
The General Services Administration issued a memo signed by Senior Procurement Executive Jeffrey Koses adding a "Basic Safeguarding of Data within Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence Systems"…
The Small Business Administration's Office of Inspector General issued a management advisory finding that the SBA has not finalized an AI strategy, developed a generative AI policy, or convened its AI…
The Small Business Administration's Office of Inspector General found that the SBA failed to classify its Palantir-built AI fraud detection pilot for pandemic loans as a high-impact use case, exemptin…
A Pentagon investigation concluded that overreliance on Palantir's Maven Smart System contributed to a US missile strike that killed 123 children at an Iranian elementary school, citing stale intellig…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 23, 2026, cutting output token prices 40% (from $25 to $20 per million) and cache reads from $0.50 to $0.20 while running 30% faster, and OpenAI answere…
An unreleased internal Pentagon review cited by U.S. officials blames an overreliance on Palantir's Maven Smart System AI for a U.S. strike that killed more than 150 people, including 123 children, at…
Federal agencies face a September 22, 2026 compliance deadline to report implementation of minimum risk management practices for high-impact AI under OMB Memorandum M-25-21, but the White House page h…
Brain Co. is hiring a Platform Security Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area for a hybrid role requiring 5–8 years of production software engineering experience, with skills including LangChain, too…
Palantir, founded 23 years ago, is positioned as a data-integration company whose founding insight—that the operational knowledge of institutions running the world remains API-incomplete—has become ne…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp said in a September 17, 2026 CNBC interview that frontier AI labs such as Anthropic face liability exposure so severe that only the US government can absorb it, and that nationa…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses a Palantir-developed tool called Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) to populate maps with potential deportation targets, g…
The Department of Homeland Security has declined to classify its AI-driven immigration enforcement tools as high-impact, exempting them from the disclosure, impact-assessment, and appeal safeguards re…
A developer argues that as capable AI models become commoditized, engineering value shifts to applying intelligence inside organizations, embodied by the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role. The piec…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp said on CNBC's Squawk on the Street on September 17 that leading AI labs may need to be nationalized because their technology carries "unlimited" risk, naming Anthropic and warn…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said AI labs calling for regulation are actually seeking relief from existing laws, arguing in a CBS interview that current statutes on unauthorized entry, liability for damage…
An unreleased internal Pentagon review found that overreliance on Palantir's Maven Smart System AI targeting platform contributed to a February U.S. Tomahawk strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary Sch…
The U.S. military planned to board a China-flagged vessel in the Middle East based on a hallucinated claim from an AI chatbot that the ship was carrying nuclear weapon components, backing out at the l…
A U.S. special operations command analyst used an AI chatbot to blend SIGINT and open-source reports into an intelligence report that inaccurately identified a ship's cargo, prompting U.S. military pl…
A US Tomahawk missile strike on February 28, 2026 killed an estimated 150 to 175 civilians at a school in Minab, Iran, after outdated intelligence was fed through AI-assisted targeting systems without…
Experts told a Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on Wednesday that the Pentagon's military use of AI is not reducing civilian harm, contradicting claims by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and other pr…