Pivot Public AI Briefing — May 7, 2026

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 worse. We're three months into Trump's second term, Xi Jinping just agreed to restart military communications last w... • The whiplash is incredible. Monday's blacklisting triggered an immediate eight percent drop in Alibaba's Hong Kong shares. By Wednesday's reversal, yo... • Here's what matters for public sector folks: This signals major instability in how we're classifying foreign tech threats. If you're a procurement off... Subscribe to the newsletter at pivotnews.ai for the full written briefing.