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The Department of Health and Human Services has removed a public listing for an AI system intended to verify the identities of sponsors for unaccompanied immigrant children, days after The Christian Science Monitor asked the agency about it. The vanished entry described “Unaccompanied Child...

Federal agencies do not usually lose control of artificial intelligence because a first pilot fails. They lose control because the first success invites a second project, a third vendor, a separate data path and another approval process—until an initiative designed to improve mission delivery...

The Technology Modernization Fund is asking federal agencies to submit permitting-technology and artificial-intelligence proposals by July 24, 2026, as it races to commit a remaining $200 million before its authority to make new investments expires on September 30 unless Congress intervenes. The...

The Office of Personnel Management has quietly opened the federal doors to mainstream generative AI by making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and OpenAI’s ChatGPT available to its workforce — a move that follows a string of rapid OneGov procurement deals and the launch of GSA’s USAi sandbox, and that...

Walk into any federal agency in 2024, and you’ll find something humming in the background, smoothing operations, answering obscure questions, maybe even drafting memos on how best to watch itself: Microsoft’s Copilot. Once, the phrase “AI policing AI” conjured visions of dystopian sci-fi—now...

Microsoft’s recent announcement that its OpenAI-enabled Azure services have received a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) authorization for Impact Level 6 marks a significant milestone in the government’s adoption of advanced AI technologies. This clearance expands the availability of...