AI Mandate Scan
Last week, Axios published "We've Been Warned", laying out six facts about the AI moment:
AI is the fastest-growing product category in world history.
One of the latest models is so powerful its maker won't release it publicly.
AI companies are growing less transparent as their models grow more capable.
The federal government requires zero AI transparency.
AI resentment is building. Someone firebombed the OpenAI CEO's home.
$2 trillion in software company value evaporated in ten weeks.
Whirlwind weeks are becoming the norm given how fast the technology is moving. But the developments on the federal side this week feel transformational: the Pentagon locked in eight vendors for classified AI work, the White House rewrote the rules for how every agency buys technology, and a government watchdog found that agencies are spending billions on AI without documenting what they're learning.
That is, until next week.
Let’s get into it.
