Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that scraped the internet for images of people’s faces for its database, is building a tool to deal with an emerging problem: AI-generated faces. 🤖 Learn more on @fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/clearview-ai...

📢 Meta will offer Llama AI models to government for free in a new GSA deal. Meta joins OpenAI and Anthropic in providing government access to AI models for steep discounts. 🤖 But they won't be free forever. 👀 Full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/meta-gsa-dea...

Despite being killed in a 99-1 vote, a nationwide moratorium on passing any regulation related to AI was included in Trump's AI Action Plan. 🏛️ 🤖 Three experts testified before Congress on the implications of state regulations on AI. @statescoop.bsky.social ➡️ statescoop.com/state-ai-law...

What's guiding the next phase of federal cybersecurity? Artificial intelligence says acting Federal Chief Information Security Officer Michael Duffy at #FedTalks. 🔐 🤖 Full scoop on @cyberscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/federal-agen...

At #FedTalks, the CDC's Travis Hoppe said the agency’s roughly 10,000 workers have logged: 💬 1.2 million chats ⌛ saved workers an estimated 41,000 hours 💰 contributed to a more than 500% return on the agency’s initial investment More @fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/cdc-official...

Working with the UK and US governments, Anthropic found a vulnerability so severe it restructured its entire safeguard architecture rather than attempt to patch it. 🇺🇸 🤝 🤖 🤝 🇬🇧 Learn more @cyberscoop.bsky.social 📰➡️ cyberscoop.com/openai-anthr...

VA is telling Congress that it's rapidly implementing AI. 🤖 But GAO warned the same lawmakers that the VA could face challenges before the agency can effectively do so. 🔍 Learn more in the full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Miranda Nazzaro 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/veterans-aff...

An AI research institute funded by NSF under the first Trump administration didn’t receive a renewal for federal support, a move that deals a blow to its work as well as the talent pipeline. 🌪️ 🌩️ More from @fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/an-ai-weathe...

Top former and current federal officials and industry leaders believe that trust and transparency are key as artificial intelligence develops and becomes increasingly involved in military and intelligence processes. 🤖 Full scoop from @defensescoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ defensescoop.com/2025/09/15/t...

Two bills that sought to regulate AI use in “consequential decisions,” such as employment, housing, health care, and financial services have recently failed in: ☀️ California 🏔️ Colorado Learn more from @statescoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/california-b...

In the Trump administration's AI Action plan, the concept of regulatory sandboxes were among the more than 90 policy recommendations outlined. 🤖 Sen. Ted Cruz is working to make them a reality. 🏛️ @fedscoop.bsky.social's Madison Alder 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/cruz-introdu...

F5, a Seattle-based application delivery and security company, announced Thursday it will acquire Dublin-based CalypsoAI for $180 million in cash highlighting cybersecurity challenges with AI 🤖 @cyberscoop.bsky.social @gregotto.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/f5-to-acquir...

As of July, there are: 🏛️ nearly 100 different federal objectives related to artificial intelligence 🔍 10 different bodies reviewing the U.S. government’s AI efforts 🤖 94 different expectations related to the technology Learn more @fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/ai-requireme...

Yet another California local government is introducing artificial intelligence into its permitting process. 🤖 ➕ 🪪 Learn more about San Jose's latest AI efforts from @statescoop.bsky.social reporter Sophia Fox-Sowell 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/san-jose-ai-... #stategovernment #govtech #california

Lancaster, CA, will begin using agentic AI to fast-track approvals & eliminate bottlenecks that slow the permitting process. Agentic AI is software with some degree of autonomy in decision-making. 🤖🪪 @keelyquinlan.bsky.social on @statescoop.bsky.social 📰➡️ statescoop.com/lancaster-ca...

The Colorado legislature voted to delay its state AI act by five months. 🏛️ 🤖 This bill would regulate high-risk AI systems in areas like hiring, lending, housing, insurance and government services. Full scoop @statescoop.bsky.social 📰➡️ statescoop.com/colorado-leg...

Earlier this week, a threat group stole large volumes of data from Salesforce customers using its third-party AI agent. 🔓 🤖 The motivations aren't clear, but the scale, focus and tradecraft are raising alarm bells. 🚨 More from CyberScoop 📰➡️ cyberscoop.com/salesforce-s...

The Department of Energy allowed two of its labs to study DeepSeek, and the "positives" may be approved. 👀 Get the full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Madison Alder 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/department-o...

🤖 ➕ ✈️ ➕ 🪖 The Air Force has a new experimentation campaign to test how industry-developed AI can be integrated into battle management. @DefenseScoop's @MikaylaEasley breaks it down in the second installment of her exclusive three-part series. 📰 defensescoop.com/2025/08/15/a...

🤖 ➕ ✈️ ➕ 🪖 The Air Force has broken the entire command and control process into 52 subfunctions as it experiments with AI. @defensescoop.bsky.social's @mikaylaeasley.bsky.social breaks it down in the first installment of her exclusive three-part series. 📰 defensescoop.com/2025/08/14/a...

GSA has a new AI tool for governmentwide use, meet USAi.gov 🖥️ The tool highlights the Trump administration's push for all agencies to integrate AI into their workflows. 📽️⬇️ @fedscoop.bsky.social exclusive from Miranda Nazzaro 📰➡️ fedscoop.com/usai-general...

2 top Trump administration Office of Science and Technology Policy officials have stepped down following the release of the AI Action Plan: 🖥️ Principal Deputy Director Lynne Parker 🤖 Senior Policy Advisor Dean Ball More from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Madison Alder 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/lynne-parker...

The Pentagon’s competition to develop cyber-reasoning systems that use large language models to autonomously find and patch vulnerabilities in open-source software concluded with $8.5M awarded at DEF CON. 🤖💰 More from @cyberscoop.bsky.social's @gregotto.bsky.social 📰➡️ cyberscoop.com/darpa-ai-cyb...

In 2024, the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center helped state & local network operators: 🖥️ detect more than 43,000 cyberattacks 🔓 and 59,000 ransomware/malware attacks This year? Their $8.5 million in federal funding was cut. via @colinwood.me statescoop.com/ms-isac-nasi...

In 2024, the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center helped state & local network operators: 🖥️ detect more than 43,000 cyberattacks 🔓 and 59,000 ransomware/malware attacks This year? Their $8.5 million in federal funding was cut. via @colinwood.me statescoop.com/ms-isac-nasi...

OpenAI is offering ChatGPT to all federal agencies for just $1. 💰🤖 And they're not the last, Anthropic is working on a similar deal with all government agencies. 👀 Learn more from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Miranda Nazzarro 📰➡️ fedscoop.com/openai-chatg...

GSA inks a governmentwide deal with AWS, saving taxpayers $1 billion for cloud services. ☁️💰 Learn more about the latest of many OneGov deals GSA has entered into with the biggest names in tech 📽️ ⬇️ More from Billy Mitchell on @fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/aws-gsa-oneg...

AI is evolving at a pace that's concerning state legislatures. Here's a look at what the State of Illinois is doing to protect citizens. 💊 🤖 A recently passed law bans the use of AI in providing mental health services. More @statescoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/illinois-ban...

The flaw, disclosed a month after it was patched, provided an attacker with remote code execution privileges by poisoning the data ingested by the model. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/cursor-ai-pr...

Government coders are studying whether major AI models, including Grok, output hate speech via @rebheilweil.bsky.social and @mirandanazzaro.bsky.social fedscoop.com/government-c...

@gregotto.bsky.social sits down with @velvethamm3r.bsky.social ky.social from @dreadnode.bsky.social for an in-depth exploration of the new AI Action Plan and its sweeping implications for critical infrastructure security. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inkl... | www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHoG...

The Army is turning to AI to help coordinate an increasingly complex airspace with the proliferation of drones. ✈️ 🤖 Learn more 📹⬇️ Full scoop from @defensescoop.bsky.social's Jon Harper 📰 ➡️ defensescoop.com/2025/07/31/a...

A bipartisan group of Senators just renewed a push for enforcement-free AI testing at financial agencies. 🤖 🏛️ Learn more. 📹⬇️ Get the full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's @mattbracken.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/ai-testing-f... #GovTech #AI

DYK: A Government Accountability Office report released this week shows that generative artificial intelligence use is up ninefold across federal agencies. 🤖 📈 Learn more 📽️ ⬇️ Full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's @mirandanazzaro.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/generative-a... #AI #GovTech

AI agents deployed in space? 🤖 🛰️ 🪐 Learn more about the latest AI-enabled tool the U.S. Space Force is using to train guardians from Slingshot Aerospace. 📹⬇️ Full scoop from @defensescoop.bsky.social 's @mikaylaeasley.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ defensescoop.com/2025/07/29/s...

Yesterday, President Trump unveiled his AI Action Plan, & we covered it from every #GovTech angle. Here's a snapshot of @scoopnewsgroup.bsky.social headlines from @defensescoop.bsky.social, @fedscoop.bsky.social, @statescoop.bsky.social, & @cyberscoop.bsky.social. 📰➡️https://aiscoop.com/

The Trump administration just dropped its AI action plan — and it's a big swing at how the U.S. handles AI and cybersecurity. Here's what you need to know 📹⬇️ Full story from @cyberscoop.bsky.social via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/trump-ai-act...

The emphasis on “ideological bias” in the White House’s AI Action Plan is stoking alarm among some tech experts, with one calling it the “biggest error” of the document. via @mirandanazzaro.bsky.social fedscoop.com/vetting-of-i...

In two weeks, CTRL + ALT + DEFENSE goes live. This is the defense innovation conversation that’s been missing—raw, unfiltered, and urgently relevant. We’re pulling back the curtain on how strategy, tech, and national security collide behind the scenes. 🔗 defensescoop.com/show/ctrl-al...

The White House’s AI Action Plan seeks to accelerate permitting and upgrade the grid to power data centers, chipping away at environmental protections along the way. via @mattbracken.bsky.social fedscoop.com/trump-ai-act...

As AI companion chatbots become more sophisticated & accessible, so do the risks—especially for kids. This week's @prioritiespodcast.bsky.social covers what you need to know to protect users. 🎙️ Full ep @humanetech.bsky.social _ & @aitransparency.bsky.social ➡️ statescoop.com/radio/how-sh...

Pentagon leadership recently paused the Chief Digital and AI Office’s program to re-compete a high-dollar contract for its widely used enterprise data and analytics platform, Advana, according to a special notice that terminates an associated market research effort. via @brandivincent.bsky.social

The revised characteristics of need statement — the third of its kind — for NGC2 targets decision dominance, seeking AI solutions for data. via @markapomerleau.bsky.social defensescoop.com/2025/07/23/a...

Trump releases AI Action Plan aimed at winning race with China via @madialder.bsky.social fedscoop.com/trump-ai-act...

The Trump administration’s new AI Action Plan calls for companies and governments to lean into the technology when protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/trump-ai-act...

President Donald Trump’s new AI-enabling policy framework calls for multiple actions to advance the military’s adoption of the technology, including the standup of an “AI and Autonomous Systems Virtual Proving Ground” at the DOD. via @brandivincent.bsky.social defensescoop.com/2025/07/23/t...

It would take every person in the world watching 1,500 DVDs every day for a year to analyze the data in the world? 📀📀 This is a challenge for the intelligence community who has to mine this data for insights to protect our nation. Learn more at #AITalks 📹➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0-N...

Coming Aug. 4: CTRL + ALT + DEFENSE — a raw, unfiltered new podcast from DefenseScoop + Dcode. Hosts @billy-mitchell.bsky.social + Meagan Metzger dive into the tech, barriers, and strategies shaping defense innovation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlQ5...

Why skipping security prompting on Grok’s newest model is a huge mistake. An AI red-teaming company found that xAI’s Grok 4 is “not suitable for enterprises” without substantial security prompting. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=koW1... | cyberscoop.com/grok4-securi...

How is the U.S. Air Force Force using #AI to enhance their Cybersecurity? Lt. Col. Jamerson says it's a bit like the 🐔 and the 🥚. Do you want new technology or do you want to ensure it has the capability & security? AI may be able to help. Full session 📽️ ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mMs...