In the past few weeks, Musk’s team has worked on reducing the costs in the US government to quickly reduce what it has seen annual deficit In the past three years. The Office for Human Resources Management, which acts as a HR department for the government and is stacked with musalists. encouraged federal employees to resign If you do not return to the office five days a week and be able to commit yourself to a culture of loyalty and excellence.
The AI initiatives of Doge have the efforts of the group to reduce the federal budget and accelerate existing processes. For example, DEGE members of the Ministry of Education are reported reporting to AI tools to analyze expenses and programs, the Washington Post Registered on Thursday. A spokesman for the department says that the focus is on determining cost efficiency.
General Services Administration’s GSAI Chatbot project could bring similar advantages and enable employees to remove memos faster. The agency had hoped to use existing software such as Google Gemini, but ultimately found that according to one of the people familiar with the project, it would not provide the desired data level. The Google spokesman Jose Castañeda rejected a statement.
It is not the only mastiff -ai -axis that has not picked out. On Monday, Shedd described, in which “AI coding agents” were used as under the top priorities of the agency. These agents help engineers Generate, edit and answer questions about the software code automatically In the hope of increasing productivity and reducing errors. A tool with which the team looked after WIRED documents was cursor, a coding assistant developed by Anysphere, a rapidly growing startup in San Francisco.
The leading investors of Anysphere include Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz– – Both have connections to Trump. Joshua Kushner, Thrive’s Managing Partner, Made historical Political campaign donations at Democrats, but he is the brother of Trump’s son -in -law, Jared Kushner. The co -founder of Andreessen Marc Andreessen said he advises Trump on technology and energy policy.
Another person who is familiar with the technology purchases of General Services Administration said that the agency’s IT team originally approved the use of Cursor in order to withdraw it later for further review. Now Doge is pressing for the installation of Microsoft’s Github CopilotThe most famous coding assistant in the world, according to the other person familiar with the agency.
Cursor and the General Services Administration did not answer inquiries about comments. Andreessen Horowitz And Thrive rejected a statement.
Federal regulations Require the appearance of a conflict of interest for the choice of suppliers. And although there are no widespread concerns about the security of cursor, federal authorities, known known are generally required by law Examination of potential cyber security risks before the introduction of new technologies.
The interest and use of AI of the federal government are not new. In October 2023, President Biden ordered the General Services Administration Prioritization of security reviews for different categories of AI tools, including chatbots and coding assistants. At the end of his term, however, nobody had made it through the provisional agency’s review processes, said a former official who was familiar with them. As a result, no special AI-supported coding tools have received authorization Under FedrampA GSA program for the centralization of security ratings and to facilitate the burden of individual agencies.
