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07/29/2026

AI's growing role in rulemaking raises new transparency questions

As the Trump administration pursues an aggressive deregulatory agenda, concerns are mounting that artificial intelligence could make agency decisions harder to explain and defend.

07/29/2026

NVIDIA CEO to meet with Sen. Cruz on AI

The meeting follows his and other companies’ public push for continued open-source AI model access.

07/28/2026

Senate confirms Clayton as Trump’s next intelligence director

The former SEC chairman will replace acting intelligence chief Bill Pulte, whose brief tenure oversaw repeated personnel cuts to the nation’s top spy office.

07/28/2026

FCC blocks approval of new foreign-made robots, power inverters
https://www.nextgov.com/policy/2026/07/fcc-blocks-approval-new-foreign-made-robots-power-inverters/415070/

07/28/2026

Pulte announces 30% ODNI staff reduction hours before Clayton vote

The acting intelligence chief said a fifth and “near final” round of terminations was underway Tuesday but did not disclose how many employees were affected.

07/28/2026

Anthropic calls for threading the needle on open-source AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cited China as the primary threat to such a paradigm and cast doubt over the narrative of open-source as a cybersecurity asset.

07/28/2026

In a request to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, several senators have asked for a review of the IRS Free File program, citing concerns about underperformance and a lack of oversight.

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07/27/2026

Government service delivery needs standard definitions, former government tech leaders say

A patchwork of technical definitions mean Americans are missing out on benefits and agencies face an additional administrative burden, a new paper from Democratic think tank Searchlight Institute…

07/27/2026

NIST unveils new AI evaluation platform

The AI Technology Evaluation will provide exclusive data to grade models’ performance in select areas.

07/27/2026

Over 30 companies form open-source AI alliance

Helmed by NVIDIA, the Open Secure AI Alliance looks to shore up industry support for continued access to and work with open-source artificial intelligence models.