The company will merge Bubty and Ascen with its existing enterprise business to form a separate entity later this year.

GSA Federal Acquisition Service commissioner Josh Gruenbaum in a statement encouraged “other American AI technology companies to follow OpenAI’s lead and work with us.”

Canadian AI firm Cohere aims to alleviate data privacy concerns with its new AI agent platform, North, which can be deployed privately so that enterprises and governments can keep their, and their customers', data safe behind their own firewalls. 

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday that two Chinese nationals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in illegally shipping "tens of millions of dollars" worth of high-performance AI chips to China.

OpenAI announced an agreement to supply more than 2 million workers for the US federal executive branch access to ChatGPT and related tools at practically no cost: just $1 per agency for one year.

The deal was announced just one day after the US General Services Administration (GSA) signed a blanket deal to allow OpenAI and rivals like Google and Anthropic to supply tools to federal workers.

The workers will have access to ChatGPT Enterprise, a type of account that includes access to frontier models and cutting-edge features with relatively high token limits, alongside a more robust commitment to data privacy than general consumers of ChatGPT get. ChatGPT Enterprise has been trialed over the past several months at several corporations and other types of large organizations.

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