The FBI has appointed Karl Robert Schumann as its new permanent chief information officer, according to the Justice Department's IT leadership directory. Schumann, a 30-year FBI veteran who rose from …
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and allied governments have issued guidance urging federal agencies to treat autonomous AI systems as a core cybersecurity concern. Fed…
OpenAI will debut ChatGPT on the Pentagon's GenAI.mil platform in early July, making the chatbot available to over 3 million defense personnel. The company is working with the DoD's Chief Digital Arti…
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency plans to use artificial intelligence to accelerate security clearance reviews, reducing parts of the vetting process from months to hours, according…
The Small Business Administration partnered with AI firm Perplexity to launch a $25 million Main Street AI Accelerator, offering $250 Perplexity Computer credits to up to 100,000 small businesses with…
Over 30 industry and academic professionals signed a letter to the Trump administration asking it to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model, citing international competition and network …
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to restrict foreign national access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, citing national security concerns over a potential jailbreak. Anthropic disabled b…
White House officials are considering giving the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency access to Anthropic's advanced AI model Mythos to scan federal networks for vulnerabilities. The discu…
New legislation introduced in Congress aims to standardize DHS communications, leverage nuclear power for space exploration, and require data centers to report environmental impacts. Rep. Shri Thaneda…
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 …
GSA Deputy Administrator Michael Lynch said 70% of the agency's workforce now regularly uses AI, unlocking about 400,000 hours of automation and another 500,000 hours from employee-led optimizations. …
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a binding directive requiring federal agencies to prioritize vulnerability fixes based on risk, with deadlines ranging from three days for c…
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…