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The federal government is trying to grab hold of AI policy from three directions at once. Broadband Breakfast reports Trump plans to create an AI Force under a new AI Czar, centralizing what had been scattered efforts, while Carr and Trump separately wave off comparisons to net neutrality fights. Meanwhile Vought is reportedly getting veto power over NIH grants per Ars Technica, and a new lawsuit accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google of colluding on an "AI slowdown." Layer onto that the FAA's limited-mode AI tool for Washington airspace and Code for America's Google-funded AI tax screening tool, and the pattern is federal agencies adopting AI operationally even as the White House tries to centralize its oversight.
Money and contracts move on parallel tracks. DefenseScoop covers the Army's III Armored Corps getting baseline NGC2 capabilities and Northrop Grumman and True Anomaly picking up recon satellite work under GHOST-R, while FedScoop details the bipartisan backlash to the VA's $27 billion Oracle EHRM contract and a Baylor Genetics breach exposing over 30,000 veterans' data. Broadband Breakfast adds Ligado's new $50 billion takings claim against the Pentagon and AT&T's push for more 3.45 GHz spectrum ahead of Chairman Carr's planned auctions. Elsewhere, the FCC issues routine FM allotment corrections, Washington state names a new CISO, and California settles its Paramount/Warner suit over Lina Khan's objections.
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A draft OMB memo would require federal agencies to use Login.gov, the General Services Administration's sign-in service, as the standard identity check across government websites. This piece argues that turning one login system into the default door for every citizen interaction with the federal government trades away competition and redundancy for convenience, and that the trade is being made without much visible scrutiny of who audits the resulting chokepoint. It points to recent churn inside the agencies that would run and rely on that chokepoint, including the reinstatement of GSA's FedRAMP director after weeks of leave, a lawsuit accusing HUD and DHS of stonewalling FOIA requests about their data-sharing, and the departure of DHS's chief information officer, as reasons the mandate deserves more oversight than a routine IT decision usually gets.
6 min readIn 2025/26 an estimated 24.1 billion pounds of income-related benefits and social tariffs will go unclaimed across Great Britain. The standard reading is a failure of outreach. The second reading has become urgent this year: the system's finances assume that number stays roughly where it is, not as policy but as arithmetic. A paper published on 17 August characterises what its authors call agentic flooding, with a dataset of 84 potential cases across 11 jurisdictions and a finding that exposure lands first on services that are financially attractive and procedurally complex. Britain's employment tribunals are the clearest instance on the record, and the planning system shows the same tool pointed the other way. Why the flood is mostly legitimate, why detection is the weakest available answer, and why a decision deferred for thirty years by the friction of the forms is about to be taken explicitly.
6 min readThe FTC voted 2-0 on 19 August to put out a proposed enforcement policy statement on personalized pricing, and the headline reading is that retailers will have to disclose when a price is set from personal data. That is not the expensive part. The expensive part is one line about consent: a business has to be able to show the consumer agreed to their data being used to set a price, and consent collected for advertising targeting is a different purpose. That sentence reaches through the identity graph, the clean room and every measurement vendor whose inference could land in a price. Why the definition of personalized is the whole fight, what Delta's earnings call said that its letter to the Senate did not, why Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey have already moved past disclosure to prohibition, and the inventory almost no marketing department has run.
10 min readTwo weeks ago we wrote that procurement was the only lever with a working handle on the license plate reader business. A lot of people have since pulled it. Agencies in twenty-three states have cancelled, and more than twenty jurisdictions moved to drop their cameras in July alone, the highest month since tracking began in 2021. On Thursday Flock answered: default retention cut from thirty days to seven, mandatory misuse audits, a required case number before a search, and filters on cross-agency queries. Its chief executive, asked by the BBC whether it had taken too long, said "Yeah... yes." So the lever worked. What it bought was four settings, and a setting reverts on a schedule nobody publishes. Also inside: three accuracy numbers with three different denominators, why the only one produced by the buyer found a 71% failure rate, what it tells you that the company permits third-party security audits but not accuracy audits, why nobody including the vendor can say how big this network is, and why the operator most willing to defend it on the record works under the tightest law in the story.
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