Israeli-backed social media accounts pushed anti-government propaganda — including deepfakes and AI-generated content — to Iranians as real-world attacks were happening, with the goal of fomenting revolt, according to Citizen lab.
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06.10.2025 17:16 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tennessee is the latest to partner with Amazon for training and jobs in AI and cloud computing. 🤖
It's the sixth state to join, following Illinois, New York, Texas, Washington and West Virginia. 🤝
Full scoop from @statescoop.bsky.social 📰➡️ statescoop.com/nashville-in...
06.10.2025 13:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Researchers say Israeli government likely behind AI-generated disinfo campaign in Iran
The group leveraged dozens of social media accounts and “routinely used” AI-generated imagery and video to stoke unrest among Iran’s population, according to Citizen Lab. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rk1... | cyberscoop.com/citizen-lab-...
04.10.2025 23:48 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
San Jose is using AI to to identify road hazards. ⚠️ 🚗
And it's going well - the AI identified potholes with 97% accuracy and debris with 88% accuracy. 🛣️
Full scoop from @statescoop.bsky.social's Sophia Fox-Sowell 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/san-jose-ai-...
02.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The latest version of Claude has many cybersecurity improvements. 🔒
Oh, and it's also increasingly self-aware. 👀
Learn more from @cyberscoop.bsky.social @derekbjohnson.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/anthrophic-s...
01.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI bill. SB 53 introduces new transparency requirements and consumer safeguards for leading AI developers.
Full scoop from @statescoop.bsky.social's Sophia Fox-Sowell 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/newsom-calif...
30.09.2025 18:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI's next stop? Music. Who's leading? Will.i.am. 🎶
Will.i.am acquired an Israeli AI company in 2016, and now, he will teach an AI course at Arizona State University called ‘The Agentic Self.’ 🏫
EdScoop 📰 ➡️ edscoop.com/will-i-am-as...
26.09.2025 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
California just confirmed:
✅ If AI is being used in decision-making for housing, health care, or lending for you, you have a right to know.
✅ You have the right to opt out of automated decision making.
@statescoop.bsky.social's @keelyquinlan.bsky.social 📽️ ⬇️
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25.09.2025 21:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NYC highlights another AI use case: subway inspections. 🚇
Using AI, a a startup:
❗ identified 5 maintenance issues
🌳 located more than 300 vegetation encroachments
🦺 saved 30 hours of labor
💰 saved $800 of work cost per mile
@statescoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/nycs-transit...
24.09.2025 16:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that scraped the internet for images of people’s faces for its database, is building a tool to deal with an emerging problem: AI-generated faces. 🤖
Learn more on @fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/clearview-ai...
23.09.2025 21:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢 Meta will offer Llama AI models to government for free in a new GSA deal.
Meta joins OpenAI and Anthropic in providing government access to AI models for steep discounts. 🤖
But they won't be free forever. 👀
Full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/meta-gsa-dea...
23.09.2025 14:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Despite being killed in a 99-1 vote, a nationwide moratorium on passing any regulation related to AI was included in Trump's AI Action Plan. 🏛️ 🤖
Three experts testified before Congress on the implications of state regulations on AI.
@statescoop.bsky.social ➡️ statescoop.com/state-ai-law...
22.09.2025 17:47 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What's guiding the next phase of federal cybersecurity? Artificial intelligence says acting Federal Chief Information Security Officer Michael Duffy at #FedTalks. 🔐 🤖
Full scoop on @cyberscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/federal-agen...
22.09.2025 15:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At #FedTalks, the CDC's Travis Hoppe said the agency’s roughly 10,000 workers have logged:
💬 1.2 million chats
⌛ saved workers an estimated 41,000 hours
💰 contributed to a more than 500% return on the agency’s initial investment
More @fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/cdc-official...
19.09.2025 18:54 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Working with the UK and US governments, Anthropic found a vulnerability so severe it restructured its entire safeguard architecture rather than attempt to patch it. 🇺🇸 🤝 🤖 🤝 🇬🇧
Learn more @cyberscoop.bsky.social 📰➡️ cyberscoop.com/openai-anthr...
18.09.2025 13:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
VA is telling Congress that it's rapidly implementing AI. 🤖
But GAO warned the same lawmakers that the VA could face challenges before the agency can effectively do so. 🔍
Learn more in the full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Miranda Nazzaro 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/veterans-aff...
17.09.2025 20:31 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An AI research institute funded by NSF under the first Trump administration didn’t receive a renewal for federal support, a move that deals a blow to its work as well as the talent pipeline. 🌪️ 🌩️
More from @fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/an-ai-weathe...
17.09.2025 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Top former and current federal officials and industry leaders believe that trust and transparency are key as artificial intelligence develops and becomes increasingly involved in military and intelligence processes. 🤖
Full scoop from @defensescoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ defensescoop.com/2025/09/15/t...
16.09.2025 19:39 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Two bills that sought to regulate AI use in “consequential decisions,” such as employment, housing, health care, and financial services have recently failed in:
☀️ California
🏔️ Colorado
Learn more from @statescoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/california-b...
16.09.2025 15:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the Trump administration's AI Action plan, the concept of regulatory sandboxes were among the more than 90 policy recommendations outlined. 🤖
Sen. Ted Cruz is working to make them a reality. 🏛️
@fedscoop.bsky.social's Madison Alder 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/cruz-introdu...
15.09.2025 18:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
F5, a Seattle-based application delivery and security company, announced Thursday it will acquire Dublin-based CalypsoAI for $180 million in cash highlighting cybersecurity challenges with AI 🤖
@cyberscoop.bsky.social @gregotto.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ cyberscoop.com/f5-to-acquir...
12.09.2025 15:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
As of July, there are:
🏛️ nearly 100 different federal objectives related to artificial intelligence
🔍 10 different bodies reviewing the U.S. government’s AI efforts
🤖 94 different expectations related to the technology
Learn more @fedscoop.bsky.social 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/ai-requireme...
11.09.2025 14:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yet another California local government is introducing artificial intelligence into its permitting process. 🤖 ➕ 🪪
Learn more about San Jose's latest AI efforts from @statescoop.bsky.social reporter Sophia Fox-Sowell 📰 ➡️ statescoop.com/san-jose-ai-...
#stategovernment #govtech #california
08.09.2025 17:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lancaster, CA, will begin using agentic AI to fast-track approvals & eliminate bottlenecks that slow the permitting process. Agentic AI is software with some degree of autonomy in decision-making. 🤖🪪
@keelyquinlan.bsky.social on @statescoop.bsky.social 📰➡️ statescoop.com/lancaster-ca...
04.09.2025 19:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Colorado legislature voted to delay its state AI act by five months. 🏛️ 🤖
This bill would regulate high-risk AI systems in areas like hiring, lending, housing, insurance and government services.
Full scoop @statescoop.bsky.social 📰➡️ statescoop.com/colorado-leg...
28.08.2025 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Earlier this week, a threat group stole large volumes of data from Salesforce customers using its third-party AI agent. 🔓 🤖
The motivations aren't clear, but the scale, focus and tradecraft are raising alarm bells. 🚨
More from CyberScoop 📰➡️ cyberscoop.com/salesforce-s...
27.08.2025 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Department of Energy allowed two of its labs to study DeepSeek, and the "positives" may be approved. 👀
Get the full scoop from @fedscoop.bsky.social's Madison Alder 📰 ➡️ fedscoop.com/department-o...
20.08.2025 21:32 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Air Force has a new experimentation campaign to test how industry-developed AI can be integrated into battle management.
@DefenseScoop's @MikaylaEasley breaks it down in the second installment of her exclusive three-part series.
📰 defensescoop.com/2025/08/15/a...
18.08.2025 17:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Air Force has broken the entire command and control process into 52 subfunctions as it experiments with AI.
@defensescoop.bsky.social's @mikaylaeasley.bsky.social breaks it down in the first installment of her exclusive three-part series.
📰 defensescoop.com/2025/08/14/a...
15.08.2025 19:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
GSA has a new AI tool for governmentwide use, meet USAi.gov 🖥️
The tool highlights the Trump administration's push for all agencies to integrate AI into their workflows. 📽️⬇️
@fedscoop.bsky.social exclusive from Miranda Nazzaro 📰➡️ fedscoop.com/usai-general...
15.08.2025 10:34 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
