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U.S. Agency Approves OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for Federal AI Vendor List

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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has approved OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude as official AI vendors for federal agencies, the agency announced Tuesday. This move supports the Trump administration’s push to expand AI adoption across government sectors.

The approvals come as part of a broader AI blueprint released on July 23, which seeks to ease environmental regulations and increase AI exports to allied countries to help the U.S. maintain its technological edge over China.

With the GSA’s approval, these AI tools will be accessible to federal agencies through a platform that streamlines contracts and usage terms. The agency emphasized that it prioritizes AI models that ensure truthfulness, accuracy, transparency, and freedom from ideological bias.

President Donald Trump has described the AI race as a defining challenge of the 21st century. His administration’s AI plan includes around 90 recommendations focused on promoting U.S. AI software and hardware exports, while rolling back state laws seen as restrictive to AI innovation.

This approach contrasts sharply with the Biden administration’s “high fence” policies, which placed more stringent safeguards on AI use within federal agencies, including monitoring and assessing AI’s impact on the public. Biden also signed an executive order aimed at fostering competition, protecting consumers, and combating misinformation—measures that were later rescinded by Trump.

Orange to Harness OpenAI’s Latest AI Models for African Languages

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French telecom giant Orange announced plans to leverage OpenAI’s cutting-edge AI models to advance African language technology. Despite the continent’s rich linguistic diversity—over 2,000 languages—the benefits of AI have largely bypassed African languages due to scarce data and limited computing resources, according to researchers from Cornell University and the journal Nature.

Operating in 18 African countries, Orange signed a deal last year with OpenAI to access pre-release AI models and fine-tune large language models for regional African language translation tasks. The company began deploying OpenAI’s Whisper speech model this year for speech recognition but aims to expand into more sophisticated applications with the latest models.

OpenAI’s open-weight models provide publicly accessible parameters, enabling developers like Orange to customize models for specific needs without needing the original training datasets. Orange plans to fine-tune these models using its own collected samples of African languages and roll them out locally.

Steve Jarrett, Orange’s Chief AI Officer, told Reuters the company intends to provide these fine-tuned models free of charge to local governments and public authorities. He emphasized that the initiative serves as a blueprint for bridging the digital divide through AI, fostering collaboration with local startups and communities to elevate African languages as “first-class citizens” in the AI landscape.

Abu Dhabi’s MGX Eyes Up to $25 Billion for AI Investments

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Abu Dhabi-based investment group MGX is exploring plans to raise as much as $25 billion from third-party investors to expand its artificial intelligence portfolio, Bloomberg News reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The group, already backed by Mubadala Investment Co and AI firm G42, would retain these as its main supporters while seeking additional funding from both domestic and international financial and strategic investors.

MGX, chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan — the UAE’s national security adviser and brother of President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed — has existing stakes in OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI. The potential fundraising aims to accelerate its role in the global AI race. No final decision on the plan has yet been made.

The news follows reports from the Financial Times that French AI startup Mistral is in talks with MGX and other investors to secure $1 billion in funding at a $10 billion valuation, further highlighting the UAE’s growing influence in AI investments.