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ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform

“No other vendor could meet these timeframes of having the infrastructure in place to meet this urgent requirement and deliver a prototype in...

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...

Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute...

Democrats Demand Answers on DOGE’s Use of AI

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee fired off two dozen requests Wednesday morning pressing federal agency leaders for information about plans to install...

DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deployed a proprietary chatbot called GSAi to 1,500 federal workers at the General Services Administration,...

The US Army Is Using ‘CamoGPT’ to Purge DEI From Training Materials

The United States Army is employing a prototype generative artificial intelligence tool to identify references to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) for...

DOGE’s $1 Federal Spending Limit Is Straight Out of the Twitter Playbook

Katie Drummond: Right. Move fast and break things as we've been saying a lot at WIRED in the last few months. We're going...