Tag: government
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Sam Altman Just Offered the Government a Piece of OpenAI. Here Is Why.
Sam Altman walked into a room with the Trump administration and proposed something unusual: give the U.S. government a 5 percent stake in OpenAI. That stake would be worth roughly $42.6 billion at the company’s $852 billion valuation. Why would he do that? Because the government is not a customer anymore. It is a regulator,…
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California Just Rolled Out AI to All State Workers
California completed the statewide rollout of Poppy, its vendor-agnostic AI assistant, this week. 2,800-plus state employees piloted it across 67 departments. Now it’s live for every state worker. What’s interesting about Poppy is the vendor thing. Most states pick one lab and lock in. California said: No. Any model works. Claude, Gemini, GPT, Nova. Pick…
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The White House Just Enlisted AI for Science Discovery
There is a new national mission, and AI is at the center of it. The White House launched the Genesis Initiative, and Google DeepMind is backing it. The goal is to turn AI loose on the hardest scientific problems: biology, chemistry, materials science, energy, climate. They built two tools to start with. AlphaEvolve is a…
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The White House Just Said Yes to Anthropic’s Best Model
The Trump administration just lifted restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 model. After negotiations, the government approved wider distribution of a model that had been blocked from going global. This is how AI regulation actually works now. It is not a blanket ban. It is a negotiation. Company and government talk through the concerns, the government…
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The White House Just Put AI in the Government Playbook
On June 2nd, the White House issued an executive order on AI, and it says something straightforward: AI is infrastructure now. Treat it like one. The order is called “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security.” It does what executive orders do: it sets priorities for federal agencies. Modernize government IT systems. Protect American AI…