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The process organizations use to evaluate, select, and contract AI model vendors, weighing cost, performance, compliance, and risk before deployment.
Its contracts and third parties section asks AI buyers to decide and record controller, processor or joint controller roles across the whole supply chain, and it warns that the guidance is under review after the Data (Use and Access) Act.
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Open-weight models take about 60 percent of the tokens on US-originating OpenRouter requests, and most of those weights come from Chinese labs, so the marketplace is now selling residency of the inference itself.
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The White House's two revised memos fold AI approvals into the IT accountability agencies already run and tell them to buy American AI, without saying in the fact sheet what makes AI American or high-impact.
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A Box sourcing manager argues that AI overruns come from accumulation rather than pricing, which moves the control point away from the contract and toward whoever is measured on daily consumption. Her nominee is procurement.
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Anthropic's chief executive conceded on X that AI companies have not met their big promises, weeks before a listing backers expect to value the firm at $2trn. Procurement should price the gap.
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Optima lets buyers build benchmarks from their own datasets and agent traces, then scores candidate models on quality, cost per task and time per task.
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