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Hosts: Amina Clark & Owen Price In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Public for Sunday, May 10th, 2026. I'm Amina Clark. • And I'm Owen Price. Today: a Justice Department indictment that blurs the line between Russian cybercrime and the Russian state, a Pentagon blacklist ... • Let's start with DOJ. Prosecutors this week unsealed charges against members of a ransomware crew alleging they didn't...

Hosts: Amina Clark & Owen Price In this episode: • Good morning, this is Pivot Public for Friday, May 8th, 2026. I'm Amina Clark. • And I'm Owen Price. If you run procurement, IT, or policy in a public agency, here's what's actually changing on your desk today. • Top of the brief: GSA finalized the second tranche of its AI Acquisition Schedule overnight. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Public Sector...

Hosts: Amina Clark & Owen Price In this episode: • Today we're covering critical water infrastructure breaches in Poland, Jonathan Porat's move to Code For America, and a breakthrough in wildfire AI th... • Let's start with Poland. Five water treatment plants just had their industrial control systems breached, and here's what's terrifying — the attackers ... • This is exactly the nightmare sce...

Hosts: Amina Clark & Owen Price In this episode: • Today we're diving deep into the shifting landscape of AI governance across federal, state, and local agencies. • That's right. We've got some fascinating developments to unpack, including new procurement frameworks, accountability measures, and real-world impleme... • So let's start with what I think is the most significant development we've...

Hosts: Amina Clark & Owen Price In this episode: • Today we're looking at major developments in AI governance and public sector technology that are reshaping how government operates. • Yeah, and some of these changes are happening faster than most agencies can adapt to. We've got breaking news on federal AI procurement standards, a m... • Let's start with what just dropped from the Office of M...

Hosts: Amina Clark & Owen Price In this episode: • Today we're covering MRI Software's massive AI-driven layoffs, GPT-5.5 catching errors in frontier AI benchmarks, and a startup rethinking how AI conv... • Starting with those MRI Software cuts — 200 jobs gone in Ohio, and here's what should worry every public sector IT director: this is a private equity-... • The timing is brutal. They're not...

Hosts: Amina Clark & Owen Price In this episode: • Today we're breaking down the Pentagon's messy Alibaba-Baidu blacklist reversal, Palantir's CEO embracing his company's villain status, and CISA's new... • Let's start with this Pentagon debacle. So the Defense Department adds Alibaba and Baidu to their Chinese military companies blacklist on Monday, then... • Right, and the timing couldn't be...