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How San José trained 1,000 city employees to build their own AI tools

San José’s chief innovation officer said that the government adopted a “bottom-up” approach that encourages employees to identify challenges and develop solutions themselves.

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(L-R) Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., accept the Bipartisan Leadership in AI Award onstage during the Second Annual AI Honors hosted by the Washington AI Network at Waldorf Astoria Washington D.C. on June 3, 2026. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Washington AI Network)

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AWS wins $2.6B DHS-wide Cumulus cloud project

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Cybersecurity experts don’t think Anthropic’s Fable 5 presents a unique threat

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Under Tech Force, OPM wants to send some feds for tours of duty in industry

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New York’s IT office partners with AWS for cloud and AI services, strategy saving taxpayers $58M

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Senator questions Pentagon’s plan to revise autonomous weapons policy

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Anthropic disables new models after government calls them a national security concern

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VA clinical staff rushed to use generative AI without oversight, watchdog finds

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Why governing agentic AI is the next mission for federal agencies

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