Government Tech Workers Forced to Defend Projects to Random Elon Musk Bros

Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott

A recent high school graduate and former Neuralink intern has joined meetings to review lines of code and other work history of career public servants, sparking chaos at a major government agency.

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How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI

Zeyi Yang

When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.

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Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government

Zoë Schiffer

The US Office of Personnel Management is telling federal workers to get in line—or get out.

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Elon Musk Tells Friends He’s Sleeping at the DOGE Offices in DC

Zoë Schiffer

In a move straight out of the Twitter and Tesla playbook, Elon Musk is apparently camping out just steps away from the White House.

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Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Order Has Mapmakers Completely Lost

Paresh Dave

One of US president Donald Trump’s first actions upon returning to power was ordering the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed. But mapmakers are still largely waiting for the green light.

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Meta Is Dismantling DEI Programs but Tells Investors It Still Wants ‘Cognitive Diversity’

Paresh Dave and Vittoria Elliott

Cuts to diversity programs and other policy changes have frustrated some of Meta’s workers. One former employee calls it “a slow, painful death.”

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