The U.S. Senate has quietly given the green light for frontline aides to use three commercial AI chatbots for official work: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini chat, and Microsoft’s Copilot, according to a one‑page memo circulated by the Senate sergeant‑at‑arms’ information technology office. The...
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