The White House’s newly issued AI Action Plan looks to cement U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence, but White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Michael Kratsios said on Wednesday that the “ultimate solution” to win the AI race requires Congress. […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed an artificial intelligence tool to analyze gene data sets that the agency says is highly accurate and does not carry the risk of hallucinations.   […]

Federal Chief Information Officer Greg Barbaccia has been appointed to the additional position of Federal chief AI officer as the Trump administration begins work executing on the ambitious agenda laid out in the AI Action Plan released by the White House on July 23. […]

President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan released on July 23  issues a warning to states that create their own regulations for artificial intelligence technologies by saying those states should not be recipients of Federal government AI-related funding going forward. […]

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) will be using artificial intelligence tools to accelerate its development of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) that will help power AI data centers autonomously.  […]

The director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) said last week that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) must go “back to basics” and re-center its work around creating artificial intelligence standards. […]

The Department of Energy (DoE) has selected four sites – including two at national laboratories – to build artificial intelligence data centers and energy infrastructure called for earlier this year by the Trump administration.    […]

The White House issued its AI Action Plan this week, which includes a recommendation to establish an “AI global alliance” with key allies to ensure adversaries do not get their hands on technologies that the United States is looking to impose export controls on. […]

While the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan published this week features numerous novel approaches to keep the United States in a leading position in the global AI development and deployment race, one of the most striking of those is its call to develop a commodity-like market for compute resources. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has paused efforts by its Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) to re-compete a $15 billion artificial intelligence multiple award contract, casting uncertainty over the future of the DoD’s Advana flagship enterprise data and analytics platform. […]

The Trump administration’s AI Action Plan seeks to ramp up artificial intelligence innovation and development while cutting “red tape and onerous regulation” in an effort to give industry a helping hand – but it’s receiving mixed reviews.   […]

The White House released its long-awaited AI Action Plan today with a renewed focus on easing permitting requirements to promote faster buildouts of data centers and semiconductor manufacturing plants in the United States. […]

Members of the House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee (FSGG) are funding several artificial intelligence and cyber efforts in their draft appropriations bill released Sunday night for the upcoming fiscal year.  […]

Top artificial intelligence practitioners, developers, and visionaries across government and the private sector gathered on Thursday evening at MeriTalk’s Tech Tonic event in Washington, D.C., to honor the 2025 class of AI Honors Award Winners. […]

Paul Roberti, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), told lawmakers on July 16 that a “whole-of-government” approach is necessary to protect the nation’s pipeline systems from cyber threats. […]

As Congress takes stabs at regulating artificial intelligence, increases in AI-powered crimes has prompted a big question – what happens when AI commits crimes without a human directing it to, and what might classify as “human” in the future?  […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on Wednesday a new partnership with Voltage Park in support of the agency’s National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot. […]

The House Armed Services Committee advanced its version of the fiscal year (FY) 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a 55–2 vote late Tuesday, moving forward a sweeping defense policy bill that includes key provisions related to space technology, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. […]

The Department of Justice (DoJ) has issued new guidance that aims to lead Federal government agencies to eventually strip away many non-essential, non-English documents and services, and to use artificial intelligence technology as a translation tool in order to implement a Trump administration directive that declares English to be the official national language.   […]

Senate and House lawmakers have outlined competing visions for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year (FY) 2026, setting the stage for negotiations over national security policy and military spending priorities and in particular laying out different next steps for the Pentagon on artificial intelligence (AI) approaches. […]

The Defense Department’s (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) said today it has awarded contracts for four prominent artificial intelligence (AI) technology developers to help the Pentagon speed adoption of “advanced AI capabilities” including agentic applications. […]

While Federal agencies are busy experimenting with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, government AI experts on Thursday said that it’s important to make sure employees know how to use the shiny new tools and capabilities – and feel confident doing so. […]

The use of artificial intelligence tools is becoming increasingly common across Federal agencies, but what about deployment of an AI-driven “meta-human?” U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the agency has created one and is ready to launch it this year.   […]

Half of all new American electric power will be consumed by artificial intelligence data centers by 2030, according to the Department of Energy (DoE), which warned in a report out Monday that the nation is facing an energy disaster unless it adopts innovative methods of power generation.  […]

U.S. Cyber Command’s fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget request includes a new initiative to rapidly test and validate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for operational cyber missions. […]

A new artificial intelligence model born out of a collaboration between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Google DeepMind, and Google Research is aiming to improve tropical weather forecasting.   […]

President Donald Trump signed a massive reconciliation package into law on Friday that features several cyber and AI-related provisions, including those aimed at bolstering the Pentagon’s tech capabilities, building up rural healthcare systems, and adding more tools for monitoring the country’s borders. […]

MeriTalk is delighted to honor the 2025 class of AI Honors Award Winners – the 30 women and men working across government and industry right now to bring AI to bear in shaping the ongoing revolution in government IT service. […]

The Justice Department (DoJ) has announced the results of its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants for their alleged involvement in schemes exceeding $14.6 billion in intended loss. […]

The U.S. Senate voted early Tuesday morning to drop from its reconciliation legislation a controversial 10-year moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence tech after the proposed ban met significant bipartisan pushback.   […]