The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) wants help as it tests a new automated search program that will give inventors a look at similar ideas to speed patent reviews and boost their quality.   […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is sounding the alarm in a report out Monday, saying that without regulation, artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to the loss of up to 100 million jobs in the United States over the next decade.  […]

In a new partnership with the Department of the Air Force, the Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for information is launching a project-based artificial intelligence (AI) fellowship program designed to fast-track innovation from the field to the front lines. […]

Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is alleging in a new report that the Biden administration weaponized the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) by using it to police the speech of voters who supported President Donald Trump.   […]

Around one-fifth of federal agencies use artificial intelligence to help process public records information requests, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) revealed in a new report.  […]

The Trump administration ordered the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to compare DeepSeek to leading U.S. artificial intelligence models, revealing that the United States is outperforming China.  […]

A nonprofit organization is suing four federal agencies after they failed to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on their use of artificial intelligence to support decisions in removing federal policies and adopting AI use cases.  […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released an updated artificial intelligence (AI) strategy this week that includes plans to incorporate AI in the Federal Electronic Health Record (EHR) as AI tools are validated. […]

The State Department says it will equip its diplomats with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and improve its data infrastructure under its newly released 2026 AI plan.   […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) presents a growing set of cybersecurity vulnerabilities that extend beyond traditional software threats, according to Matthew Turek, deputy director of the Information Innovation Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). […]

The White House’s America’s AI Action Plan gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the intelligence community (IC) a timely nudge. For program leaders trying to turn pilots into production, that policy tailwind sets the stage for a shift from reactive cyber operations to AI-enabled cyber intelligence that finds weak signals early and prioritizes what to fix first. That shift – and what it looks like on the ground – was the focus of a recent conversation with two General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) leaders supporting DHS and the IC. […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing $50 million toward artificial intelligence-powered research for pediatric cancer.  […]

Department of Defense (DOD) IT leaders overwhelmingly view artificial intelligence (AI) as mission-critical and are taking a range of steps to scale deployments. […]

A pair of bipartisan senators introduced new legislation on Monday that would require a new evaluation program for advanced AI systems before they can be deployed, with steep penalties for developers who do not comply.  […]

Don’t remember the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) meta-human announcement from a few months back? No problem – new details have just been released, and a top CBP official has hinted that the meta-human may be deployed soon.  […]

Federal Systems Integrators (FSIs) say artificial intelligence (AI) is essential to mission success, but many remain in pilot mode, according to new research released in September by MeriTalk, Dell Technologies, and NVIDIA. […]

The White House is putting artificial intelligence at the center of America’s research agenda in a Tuesday memo detailing the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) fiscal year 2027 research and development priorities.   […]

The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) has finalized a deal to adopt an artificial intelligence-driven command and control (C2) system across its entire force. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) rolled out OpenAI’s ChatGPT to its employees this week, an OPM spokesperson told MeriTalk. […]

Legislation that would fund artificial intelligence scholarships, centers, and teaching resources to expand education and cyber workforce training was introduced Tuesday by Rep. Vince Fong, D-Calif.  […]

James Mazol, President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy undersecretary of defense for research and engineering (OUSD(R&E)), told lawmakers Thursday that maintaining U.S. technological superiority over China requires a bold, future-focused strategy that places emerging technologies at the center of defense planning. […]

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape global industries, U.S. leaders face mounting pressure to respond. During a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, thought leaders urged lawmakers to act swiftly but differed on whether the nation should prioritize innovation, national competitiveness, or public safeguards. […]

As federal agencies prepare to increase their use of artificial intelligence, senior government technology leaders shared on Tuesday that they are taking a measured approach to AI adoption, prioritizing security and data before rolling out new capabilities. […]

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is calling for a national AI regulatory framework to avoid what he describes as a fragmented and failing system of state-led oversight. […]

Federal civilian CIOs and IT leaders overwhelmingly view artificial intelligence (AI) as essential to mission success, but most remain stuck in pilot mode, according to new research from MeriTalk, Dell Technologies, and NVIDIA. […]

As federal agencies move into the digital age, artificial intelligence is changing the way that the  government collaborates, streamlines workflows, and secures sensitive data, said Jeff Brown, lead of Google’s Global Public Sector Workspace, during a recent MeriTalking podcast. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has dramatically ramped up its use of artificial intelligence in the past few years, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is flagging challenges the agency faces in using and managing generative AI. […]

Legislation introduced by a pair of bipartisan lawmakers would require the departments of Energy, Interior, and Agriculture to assess the impact of proposed artificial intelligence data centers on rural communities.   […]

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Michael Kratsios told lawmakers on Wednesday that building and exporting the artificial intelligence technology stack is the most important part of the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan released this summer.  […]

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced today the first bill of several yet to come that he says will provide a “light-touch” regulatory approach to safe AI development and deployment by reducing the regulatory burden placed on AI developers.   […]