Subj : OpenAI just gave ChatGPT for enterprise to all US federal workers
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Aug 07 2025 15:30:08

OpenAI just gave ChatGPT for enterprise to all US federal workers for 
basically nothing

Date:
Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:26:57 +0000

Description:
A new partnership will see participating US federal agencies given ChatGPT 
for essentially nothing.

FULL STORY
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partnering with OpenAI to provide federal agencies with ChatGPT These will 
cost each agency just $1 for the year AI models present serious 
environmental, security, and 'hallucination' concerns 

OpenAI has announced it has partnered with the US General Services 
Administration (GSA) to offer ChatGPT Enterprise for the entire federal 
executive branch workforce at essentially no cost meaning just $1 per agency 
for the next 12 months. 

Helping government work better  making services faster, easier, and more 
reliableis a key way to bring the benefits of AI to everyone," the company 
said. 

"At OpenAI, we believe public servants should help shape how AI is used. The 
best way to do that is to put best-in-class AI tools in their handswith 
strong guardrails, high transparency, and deep respect for their public 
mission." Tools and training 

OpenAI was also awarded a $200 million US defence contract to provide AI data 
collection, admin, and proactive cyber defense tools. This contract aims to 
bring AI to the forefront of defense, looking to improve both the day-to-day 
experience of public service and to help government employees feel more 
empowered, more efficient, and more supported in their critical missions. 

Given the vital and sensitive work of federal agencies, it should be noted 
that recent studies by OpenAI itself have identified that new ChatGPT models 
are hallucinating more than previous models, with GPT 03 hallucinated 33% of 
the time during the firms PersonaQA benchmark, a test involving questions 
about public figures. 

Worryingly, this figure rose to 51% in the SimpleQA benchmark - a general 
knowledge based test, and the 04-mini (a smaller new model) performed even 
worse, with a 79% hallucination rate. 

OpenAI have assured that research is ongoing regarding AI hallucinations, and 
that there's a consistent effort to address the reliability  of models. 
Hallucinations are tracked by the company, and there are guides available for 
developers to help improve the model's accuracy. 

Artificial intelligence is permeating through all different industries, with 
wide scale adoption across both professional and personal environments. 

AI companies, like ChatGPTs OpenAI, have significant influence in the US 
administration, and are leveraging this influence to presumably create a 
dependency, or at least a level of reliance, within government agencies. You 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/openai-just-gave-chatgpt-for-enterprise-to-all-u
s-federal-workers-for-basically-nothing


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