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The $1 government ChatGPT deal ends on 30 September — and the replacement has no spend cap, no minimum, and no budget line anyone has written yet
GSA and OpenAI announced a 27-month OneGov agreement on 10 September: the $1-per-agency pilot expires, and from 1 October agencies pay metered token rates at 50% off, with the $15 per-user licence waived entirely. Eligibility widens from federal to state, local and tribal — roughly 23 million people. The structure removes every friction that would generate a budget signal, and neither GSA nor OpenAI has described a spend control. Also included: Daybreak Blue at half price for every verified government entity.
Read story →The Pentagon built the multi-model deployment everyone talks about — by removing the vendor that said no
On 31 August 2026 the Department of War put OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government live on GenAI.mil alongside Gemini, at IL5, for 1.7 million of its 3 million personnel. The stated goal is to prevent 'AI vendor lock.' Claude is still absent, four days after a federal judge called the Pentagon's action against Anthropic illegal and baseless. Model portability is sold to buyers as insurance. This is what it looks like as leverage.
Read story →Anthropic won. That is not the same as getting the customer back.
On 27 August 2026 a federal judge vacated the Pentagon's 'supply chain risk' designation of Anthropic and permanently enjoined its enforcement, calling the measures 'illegal and baseless.' A preliminary injunction covering the same designation has been in force since March, and it did not stop the Pentagon from excluding Anthropic from its classified-network awards on 1 May. The buyer lesson is not who won the lawsuit. It is that a frontier vendor can be removed from the federal supply chain faster than any court can put it back.
Read story →Trump signs AI executive order — voluntary 30-day federal review of frontier models, no mandatory licensing
President Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026 establishing a voluntary framework for AI developers to submit frontier models to federal cybersecurity agencies for review up to 30 days before public release. The order explicitly prohibits mandatory licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirements. Builds on existing voluntary testing arrangements with Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, xAI, and Google. AI/crypto czar David Sacks pushed for the shorter 30-day window (cut from a draft's 90-day window) and the voluntary-not-mandatory framing.
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