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Artificial Intelligence Acquisitions: Agencies Should Collect and Apply Lessons Learned to Improve Future Procurements. GAO-26-107859. Federal agencies use AI for facial recognition at airports, analyzing veterans’ benefit claims, and more. They often work with private sector companies to acquire and support AI. We talked with many agency officials about challenges acquiring AI. For example, some …
For reference Executive Order, PROTECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST INVASION, January 25, 2025, established the Homeland Security Task Force: “…Sec. 6. Federal Homeland Security Task Forces. (a) The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all appropriate action to jointly establish Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTFs) in all States nationwide. (b) The …
CSO: “Several major insurance carriers have begun to back away from providing cybersecurity and other insurance to companies using AI to run internal processes, insiders say. While there’s no standard response to customer use of AI in the insurance market, many carriers are now quietly declining to write policies for claims related to AI-generated outputs …
The Developer: “The United States government has, for years, maintained a legal mechanism that allows it to scoop up your emails, your texts, and your phone calls without asking a judge for permission. In a vote on Friday, after a week of theatrical congressional hand-wringing, lawmakers chose to keep it. If you missed the debate, …
Follow up to previous post – ICE Seeking Office Space in Over 40 States – See Also ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative – “Under the Detention Reengineering Initiative (DRI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) will fully implement a new detention model by the end of Fiscal Year 2026. This effort …
Abigail Haddad [This is experimental — please do not rely on this.] – Which government contracts have gotten terminated in the last year+? I pulled bulk data from USASpending to look at this. The red banner means this data set is brand-new to me and there are probably twelve different nuances I’m missing–which I would …
Foreign Affairs – From fertilisers to helium, the Third Gulf War is redrawing the map of who pays and who profits….We are accustomed to overlooking the degree to which the petroleum century, so frequently declared over, persists because hydrocarbons permeate, directly or otherwise, virtually every activity of our hyperindustrial societies. The ramifications surface in the …
Card Catalog: 5 more collections that put their archives online for everyone From 2,000 years of medical illustration to vintage software preserved in a browser, these five free digital archives cover an enormous range of human record-keeping. Wellcome Collection (wellcomecollection.org) Over 100,000 images spanning 2,000 years of medical history, all free to download under Creative …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, April 15, 2026 – This twice a month column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The …
WSJ (Gift Article): San Diego Now Has So Much Water That It’s Selling It. “Once a drought poster child, the California city now generates enough water to rescue parched states like Arizona—and brew beer from recycled sewage. With the Colorado River in crisis, Arizona and Nevada are turning to an unconventional lifeline: the ocean water …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “Congress ends ban on mining near Minnesota’s pristine Boundary Waters. The Senate repealed the Biden-era moratorium that safeguarded America’s most-visited wilderness, with the measure now going to Trump for his signature. The Senate voted 50-49 on Thursday to repeal a ban on mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in …
Last month, President Trump issued a second executive order aiming to single-handedly rewrite federal election rules. The Brennan Center and other groups are challenging the action in court, as the Constitution gives only the states and Congress the power to regulate elections. Among other things, the order attempts to require the U.S. Postal Service — …