James Walkinshaw, the Fairfax County Supervisor and former chief of staff to the late Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., speaks during the Congressional District 11 Candidates Forum at the Reston Community Center on June 24, 2025 in Reston, Va. (Photo by Craig Hudson For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks remotely during the Mobile World Congress on June 29, 2021, in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Joan Cros/Corbis via Getty Images)
The actions were among several announced by the Department of Commerce at the roughly six-month mark after Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., speaks to a reporter following a House Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The bipartisan ePermit Act would create an authorization portal, new data standards, shared software systems and more, with new responsibilities for the CIO Council.
Comptroller General of the Government Accountability Office Gene L. Dodaro testifies during a congressional budget hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C on April 29, 2025. (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is silhouetted as a pre-recorded interview with Elon Musk is played during the Microsoft Build 2025 conference in Seattle on May 19, 2025. Nadella announced that Grok AI, by Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI, will be available on Microsoft’s Foundry Models. (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)
Mark A. Calabria, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, answers questions during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on housing regulations during the pandemic, on Capitol Hill on June 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Astrid Riecken via Getty Images)
Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on July 8, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) speaks before a House hearing at the US Capitol on June 22, 2023 in Washington, DC. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountbility Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation met to discuss the use of technology at the US Border, airports and military bases. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
A worker removes the U.S. Agency for International Development sign on its headquarters on Feb. 7, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Nand Mulchandani, as then-acting director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, briefs reporters. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)
Former federal workers protest against Trump administration policies in front of the Hubert Humphrey Health and Human Services building in Washington D.C. on Feb. 19, 2025. (Photo by DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
A bronze sign marks the location of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters building on April 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)