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Facebook Tweet Email Link For the first time since revealing last week that the Trump administration began freezing its federal research funding, the University of California, Los Angeles has put a number on how much is at stake. And it’s far bigger than previously thought. “Currently, a total of approximately $584 million in extramural award funding is suspended and at …

OpenAI is partnering with the US government to make its leading frontier models available to federal employees. Under the agreement, federal agencies can access OpenAI’s models for $1 for the next year, per a Wednesday announcement from the company and the General Services Administration (GSA). The partnership is the culmination of months of effort on the part of OpenAI CEO …

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese government asked the national army on Tuesday to prepare a plan in which only state institutions will have weapons in the small nation by the end of the year, a move that aims to disarm the militant Hezbollah group. The announcement by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam after a nearly six-hour Cabinet meeting, came shortly after …

Scoop: Anthropic wants to sell the government Claude for $1  Axios U.S. federal departments and agencies can now more quickly and easily get access to Claude  Anthropic OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Win US Approval for Civilian AI Contracts  Bloomberg.com GSA Propels Government into AI Revolution with Addition of Leading Solutions to Multiple Award Schedules  GSA (.gov) US agency approves OpenAI, Google, Anthropic for federal …

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled one of his simmering resentments: the statistician overseeing the tabulation of the monthly figures was appointed by former President Joe Biden. Unlike Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump has been criticizing for months, the president …

India to maintain Russian oil imports despite Trump threats, government sources say  Reuters India Will Buy Russian Oil Despite Trump’s Threats, Officials Say  The New York Times India indicates it will keep buying Russian oil despite Trump’s threats  ABC News India to still buy oil from Russia despite Trump threats, say officials  The Guardian Indian Refiner Snaps Up US Oil After Trump’s Russia Threats  Bloomberg …

“We are teaming up with Accenture Federal Services to accelerate AI across the U.S. Government, working to address federal agencies’ highest-priority operational challenges,” Palantir posted to X last month. “What makes this partnership so uniquely powerful is Accenture’s expertise working with the federal government and our ability to bring commercial capabilities to government solutions, combined with Palantir’s deep experience in …

The Department of Government Efficiency wasn’t so efficient after all. In fact, it was extraordinarily wasteful, according to a Thursday report by the U.S. Senate’s investigations subcommittee. When Elon Musk spent the early part of this year ransacking the federal government, the billionaire promised that his mass layoffs of federal employees, his choking off of critical foreign aid, and his …

The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work  The Washington Post Why a federal program paying employees not to work may violate spending laws  Government Executive About 154,000 federal workers took Trump administration’s buyout offers, source says  Reuters More Than 150,000 Federal Workers Accepted Trump’s Resignation Incentives  The New York Times Federal government paying 154K not to work: Report  The Hill …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Josh Hawley on Wednesday after the Republican’s proposal to ban stock trading by members of Congress — and the president and vice president — won bipartisan approval to advance in a committee vote. It’s the second time in as many days that Trump laid into senators in his own party …