Welcome to Eye on AI! AI reporter Sharon Goldman here, filling in for Jeremy Kahn, who is on holiday. In this edition…General Services Administration approves OpenAI, Google, Anthropic for federal AI vendor list…Consequences of AI spending boom on U.S. economy…Clay AI raises $100 million at $3.1 billion valuation.
Only in the Bay Area does spending a Saturday geeking out about AI agents—alongside 2,000 students, researchers, and tech insiders crammed into UC Berkeley—feel like a totally normal weekend plan. As I picked up my badge at the day-long Agentic AI Summit and watched the line snake through the student union lobby, it felt less like an academic conference and more like Silicon Valley’s version of a buzzy New York brunch spot.
