The General Services Administration should axe its draft large language model-specific acquisition rule, in part because it is purportedly unlawful and would undermine Trump administration goals if it were finalized, Palantir argued in recent comments on the proposal. “If implemented, the Proposed AI Clause will likely prevent Palantir from providing government customers with the AI-powered solutions they need through GSA contracts,” law firm Freshfields warned on behalf of the company. Palantir’s call for GSA to kill the LLM acquisition clause stands apart from much of the rest of the federal contracting industry. The coalition asked GSA to ensure only data directly submitted to an LLM’s inference engine — not upstream and downstream processing by ancillary system components — be subject to LLM rule requirements. The Professional Services Council urged GSA to publish its benchmark methodology and evaluation criteria for “unbiased AI principles” and update them through notice-and-comment periods.