Good morning. Oracle is unveiling a program that it says will help vendors more easily sell technology, including artificial intelligence, to the Department of Defense.

The program, called the Oracle Defense Ecosystem, is structured to help smaller companies break through the challenges they typically face in selling tech to the Defense Department, Rand Waldron, Oracle’s vice president of sovereign cloud, tells the WSJ's Belle Lin.

“It is far too hard to serve the American defense enterprise,” Waldron said. “We can provide an easy path for these companies to better get access to the defense market.”

Selling to the Defense Department has long been tricky for smaller businesses that lack the structural advantages major defense contractors have. That hurts not only smaller tech companies but also the Pentagon, which faces challenges in accessing and integrating cutting-edge technologies, Waldron said. Read the story.

Looking to loosen Microsoft’s grip on its AI products and secure the tech giant’s blessing for its conversion into a for-profit company, OpenAI’s executives discussed accusing it of anticompetitive behavior during their partnership, WSJ reports. That effort could involve seeking federal regulatory review of the terms of the contract for potential violations of antitrust law, as well as a public campaign.

For years, Microsoft fueled OpenAI’s rise in exchange for early access to its technology. But the two sides have since turned into competitors on products ranging from consumer chatbots to AI tools for businesses.

The latest point of contention involves the startup’s $3 billion acquisition of coding startup Windsurf. Microsoft currently has access to all of OpenAI’s IP, according to their agreement. It offers its own AI coding product, GitHub Copilot, that competes with OpenAI. OpenAI doesn’t want Microsoft to have access to Windsurf’s intellectual property. 

OpenAI has to complete the conversion by the end of the year, or it risks losing $20 billion in funding. Read the story.

The Trump Organization said it will launch a mobile-phone service called Trump Mobile and plans to offer a U.S.-built $499 smartphone, dubbed the T1 Phone, later this summer, WSJ reports. Supply chain and device experts have questions about how the "sleek, gold" device could be built in the U.S. in time for a summer launch.

In the lead-up to recent trade talks with China, the Commerce Department unit overseeing export controls weighed tougher limits on semiconductors, including cutting off sales to China of a wider swath of chip-manufacturing equipment. WSJ reports that following through on such moves could have roiled supply chains for chips.

The Defense Department awarded OpenAI a one-year $200 million contract to boost its administrative and cyber capabilities.

The percentage of U.S. employees who say they frequently use AI in their job has almost doubled from 11% in 2024 to 19% in 2025, Gallup reports.

WestJet, Canada’s second largest airline, warned travelers of “intermittent interruptions or errors” when booking flights after hackers accessed its internal systems over the weekend, WSJ reports. 

President Trump said he was working on an end to the conflict in the Middle East, as the U.S. expanded its military footprint in the region where the war between Israel and Iran entered a fifth day. (WSJ)

Senate Republicans detailed major revisions of the House’s giant tax-and-spending bill, offering more permanent business tax breaks, deeper cuts to Medicaid, slower phaseouts for clean-energy tax credits and a much lower cap on the state and local tax deduction. (WSJ)

The amount of office supply in the U.S. is on pace this year to contract for the first time in a quarter of a century, according to real-estate-services firm CBRE Group. (WSJ)

The WSJ CIO Journal Team is Steven Rosenbush, Isabelle Bousquette and Belle Lin.

The editor, Tom Loftus, can be reached at thomas.loftus@wsj.com.