Driving the Day

Today is March 5, 2025, and here are the key policymaker and stakeholder actions on AI you need to know: Scale AI announced a “multimillion-dollar deal” with the Department of Defense to provide AI agents that will help defense officials with planning and operations. Across the pond, antitrust regulators in the U.K. ended their review of OpenAI and Microsoft’s partnership, determining the relationship does not qualify for further investigation. Chinese officials suggested their country would develop a system of open-source models as AI remains central to their economic growth efforts.

In this issue:

• Washington in Focus: The New Yorker discussed what it calls “Donald Trump's AI propaganda.”

• Around the Nation: Kentucky’s state senate passed a bill that would regulate the state government's use of AI.

• Across the Pond: A policy analyst for Open Future argued “collaboration, openness, and non-extractive governance models” are a way for Europe to build an independent digital infrastructure.  

• Global Highlights: Google reported to Australian regulators more than 250 complaints about its AI tools being used to generate deepfake terrorism content.

• Outside Views: Google leans further into AI-generated overviews for its search engine.

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