{"id":185176,"date":"2025-08-05T13:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/us-adds-openai-google-and-anthropic-to-list-of-approved-ai-vendors-for-federal-agencies-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:43:12","slug":"us-adds-openai-google-and-anthropic-to-list-of-approved-ai-vendors-for-federal-agencies-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/us-adds-openai-google-and-anthropic-to-list-of-approved-ai-vendors-for-federal-agencies-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"US adds OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to list of approved AI vendors for federal agencies | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. government has added Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic to a list of approved vendors that can offer artificial intelligence services to civilian federal agencies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-05\/openai-google-and-anthropic-win-us-approval-for-civilian-ai-contracts?srnd=phx-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The companies will see their AI tools offered via a new federal contracting platform, the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), which would let government agencies access AI tool vendors with pre-negotiated contracts, rather than negotiating with vendors individually.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bloomberg reports that the General Services Administration (GSA), which is in charge of the MAS, said the tech companies were assessed on the grounds of security and performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news comes in <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/05\/anthropic-quietly-removes-biden-era-ai-policy-commitments-from-its-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the wake of executive orders<\/a> by President Donald Trump focused on AI development, including the adjustment of environmental standards to boost the supply of energy for data centers, as well as a directive for federal agencies to only use AI that\u2019s \u201cfree from ideological bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/05\/us-adds-openai-google-and-anthropic-to-list-of-approved-ai-vendors-for-federal-agencies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government has added Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic to a list of approved vendors that can offer artificial intelligence services to civilian federal agencies, Bloomberg reports. The companies will see their AI tools offered via a new federal contracting platform, the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), which would let government agencies access AI tool vendors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}