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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.”...

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 Code Base 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...

FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies

The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including important consumer protection...