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The State Department has removed Anthropic’s Claude model from its internal chatbot after a directive from President Trump. The Treasury and Health & Human Services departments are also ending Claude use, urging staff to adopt ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini. Meanwhile, the Senate has approved the use of Gemini, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot for official work, outlining specific tasks for the tools. The changes reflect a broader realignment of AI policy across federal agencies. Lire la suite

U.S. Senators Edward Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter to Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using the Mobile Fortify smartphone app, which employs facial recognition technology. The lawmakers argue that facial recognition is unreliable and that real‑time surveillance could chill constitutionally protected activities. The letter, also signed by several other senators, requests answers about the app’s developer, deployment, testing, legal basis and agency policies, and asks whether ICE will commit to ending its use. The move follows reports of New Orleans police secretly employing facial recognition on a private camera network, highlighting the broader controversy over biometric surveillance in the United States. Lire la suite