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Australia's Medicare Hack Was a Polite Warning. The Next One Probably Won't Be.
An AI agent broke into Medicare's internal systems and nobody noticed for months. Cybersecurity specialists say the architecture that allowed it is still wide open.
Pentagon's top AI official: US allies are falling behind and Washington is trying to help them catch up
The US military's chief AI officer says partners in NATO and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance lack the scale and experience to match America's pace, and the US is actively steering them away from its own early missteps.
The Pentagon gives 3 million staff their own versions of ChatGPT and Grok
Two custom AI chatbots built for military use are now live on the Defense Department's secure portal, and one notable name is missing from the list.
A Judge Ruled the Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unconstitutional
Anthropic refused to let the military use its AI for mass surveillance or killer robots. The Pentagon punished it for that. A federal judge just said that punishment was illegal.
OpenAI pledges $5 million to help government watchdogs keep up with AI
The company says human reviewers can't manually check systems that run at machine speed, and is offering tools, training and credits to the bodies meant to hold national security AI to account.
ChatGPT Is Pulling In 90% of Congress's AI Spending
House disbursement records show lawmakers spent around $100,580 on ChatGPT in a single year, dwarfing all other AI tools combined. Anthropic's Claude came second, at a distant $13,160.
A federal judge says the Trump administration has no real evidence to ban Anthropic from government work
The Pentagon wanted to label the AI company a national security risk over a contract dispute. A judge is not buying it.
Canadian politician accidentally reads out his AI chatbot's instructions during a floor speech
A New Brunswick legislator spoke a line meant only for the AI out loud, on the record. A small embarrassing moment with a bigger lesson about who is actually doing the work.
The US Army Ran Out of AI Credits. Here Is What That Tells Us.
The Army promised its workers unlimited AI access. Six weeks later, the credits were gone. Now soldiers and civilian staff face new limits, and one worker told Wired the tools were unreliable anyway.
Australia Plans Strict Rules on How Government AI Can Make Decisions About You
The Albanese government is writing new national rules to limit how artificial intelligence can be used when agencies make decisions that affect ordinary Australians.
New York Is Using AI to Hunt Down Its Own Dumbest Laws
Governor Kathy Hochul says AI scanned every state rule and policy in months, surfacing gems like a permit requirement for pregnant people working after midnight.
Inside Shippy: How an Ocean-Monitoring AI Agent Was Built to Be Trusted, Not Just Smart
The team behind Skylight's maritime AI explains why reliability, not raw intelligence, was the hardest engineering problem they faced.
DOGE Used AI to Shape Housing Policy. Now HUD Is Blocking Requests to Learn How.
Federal housing officials are withholding more than 100 documents about AI tools used in policymaking, citing legal exemptions that legal observers say have no basis in federal law.