US adds OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to list of approved AI vendors for federal agencies

The US government has added Google, OpenAI and ethnographic to a list of authorized vendors who can provide artificial intelligence services to civilian federal agencies, Bloomberg reportThe

Companies will be given through a new federal contracting platform, multiple award schedules (MSAs), which allows government agencies to access AI equipment with pre-discussion agreements instead of discussions separately with vendors.

Bloomberg says the General Services Administration (GSA), who is in charge of the MSA, said technology companies were evaluated on the basis of protection and work.

In terms of President Donald Trump’s executive order, the news focused on AI development, a combination of environmental values to increase energy supply for information centers, as well as a guide to using federal agencies simply a guide that “free from ideological bias”.