Sources: three ex-DOGE staffers are raising $130M from a16z, Sequoia, and others for a startup that aims to use AI to secure government systems
The engineers who wreaked havoc on Washington are ready for their second act. — Some of Elon Musk's earliest Department of Government Efficiency recruits …
A US judge blocks DOGE's termination of ~$100M in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, saying ChatGPT prompts used to decide the cuts were ill-defined
A US judge blasted the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency project for relying on artificial intelligence tools …
Researcher: a DOGE employee inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July 13, exposing access to 52+ LLMs, like a Grok version from July 9
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access …
Sources: the US DOD's Defense Digital Service is effectively shutting down as nearly all staff are resigning, saying they were sidelined by DOGE's efforts
Pentagon's ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse — Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director. — www.politico.co...
Chat logs reveal DOGE member Edward Coristine's ties to cybercrime community The Com, and a Telegram handle linked to him sought a DDoS-for-hire service in 2022
Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …
DOGE staff member Marko Elez resigns after being linked to racist X posts; the 25-year-old was embedded in the US Treasury and previously worked at SpaceX and X
A staffer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved …
The US OPM plans to make each government agency's chief information officer a political appointee who can be fired at will, helping Trump exert more control
The change could smooth Elon Musk's efforts to access the technology systems of various federal agencies through his Department of Government Efficiency.