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How the Loudest Voices in AI Went From ‘Regulate Us’ to ‘Unleash Us’

On May 16, 2023, Sam Altman appeared before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary. The title of the hearing was “Oversight of AI.”...

DOGE Used a Meta AI Model to Review Emails From Federal Workers

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used artificial intelligence from Meta’s Llama model to comb through and analyze emails from federal...

OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation

The Food and Drug Administration has been meeting with OpenAI to discuss the agency’s use of AI, according to sources with knowledge of...

DOGE Is in Its AI Era

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) operates on a core underlying assumption: The United States should be run like a startup....

A DOGE Recruiter Is Staffing a Project to Deploy AI Agents Across the US Government

According to sources with direct knowledge, Jancso disclosed that AccelerateX had signed a partnership agreement with Palantir in 2024. According to the LinkedIn...

DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations

Another source told WIRED that Sweet has also been using the tool at other parts of HUD. WIRED reviewed a copy of the...

Behold the Social Security Administration’s AI Training Video

Amidst the chaos and upheaval at the Social Security Administration (SSA) caused by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), employees have...

Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project

Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to...

Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival

Silicon Valley let out a sigh of relief on Wednesday when it learned that President Donald Trump’s tariff bonanza included an exemption for...

Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs

“DOGE's actions at the VA are putting veterans' lives at risk,” representative Gerald Connolly, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells WIRED....

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

SSA’s core “logic” is also written largely in COBOL. This is the code that issues social security numbers, manages payments, and even calculates...

‘We Don’t Want an AI Demo, We Want Answers’: Federal Workers Grill Trump Appointee During All-Hands

“When there are great tools out there, GSA’s job is to procure them, not make mediocre replacements,” a colleague added.“Did you use this...