Behind the Blog: What Is Real?

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss weird fake furniture and shared reality (or the lack thereof). SAM: It has been such a busy week I forgot it’s Friday until I woke up this…

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‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government

Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate and now head of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), told government tech workers in a meeting this week that the administration plans to widely deploy AI throughout the government. Shedd also said the administration would need help altering login.gov, a government login system, to further integrate with sensitive…

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