Over the past few weeks, Musk's team has worked to quickly cut costs across the US government, which has witnessed it. Increase annual deficit Over the past three years. The Human Resources Management Office, acts as the HR department of the Government and is stacked with those who are loyal to musk, Federal staff has resigned If they cannot return to the office five days a week and commit to a loyal and excellent culture.
Doge Dovetail's AI initiatives with group efforts to reduce the federal budget and accelerate existing processes. For example, DOGE members at the Ministry of Education are reported to use AI tools to analyze spending and programs, The Washington Post Report on Thursday. A department spokesman said that the focus is to search for cost effect.
The GSAI chatbot project of the general service management agency can bring similar benefits, allowing workers, for example, to draft faster memorandumes. The agency hoped to use existing software like Google Gemini, but eventually determined that it would not provide the data level that Doge desired, according to one of the familiar to the project. Google Jose Castañeda spokesman declined to comment.
That is not the only Doge ambition that is not given. On Monday, Shedd described the deployment of AI's AI encryption agents as one of the top priorities of the agency, according to the comment described for Wired. These agents help engineers Automatically create, edit and answer questions about software code In the hope of increasing productivity and reducing errors. A tool considered by the group, according to the documents that wired, is the cursor, an encryption assistant developed by anySphere, a startup in San Francisco rapidly.
Anysphere's leading investors include Thrive Capital and Andreessen HorowitzAmong them is related to Trump. Joshua Kushner, Thrive's management partner, has been done in history The political campaign donated to the Democratic Party, but he was the brother of Trump's son -in -law, Jared Kushner. Andressen co -founder Marc Andressen said he was consulting Trump on technology and energy policy.
Another person is familiar with the technology purchases of general service management agencies saying the IT group at the original agency approved the use of the cursor, only to withdraw later to review further. Now, Doge is promoting Microsoft's installation Github copilotThe most famous encryption assistant in the world, according to others familiar with this agency.
The cursor and the general service management agency have not responded to comments. Andreessen Horowitz and thrive to refuse comments.
Federal regulations Request to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest in selecting suppliers. And while there is no widespread concern about pointer security, federal agencies Often required by law To study potential cybersecurity before applying new technology.
The interest of the federal government and the use of AI are not new. In October 2023, then President Biden Common service management order To prioritize security for some AI tools, including chatbot and encryption assistant. But at the end of his term, no one has done even the process of reviewing the preliminary agency, according to a former official who is familiar to them. As a result, there is no encryption tool to support anyone who specializes in receiving permission Under FedrampA GSA program to focus on security assessments and reduce the burden on individual agencies.