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Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

We talk all about Musk's takeover of the federal government, including audio of a meeting we got touching a Musk ally's AI plans. Then, AI slop in libraries.

404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves is an “illegal task.”

"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.

A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual that's going viral right now.

Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.

According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.

A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.

Anthropic, the developer of the conversational AI assistant Claude, doesn’t want prospective new hires using AI assistants in their applications, regardless of whether they’re in marketing or engineering.

The Air Force paid a company that is doing generative AI work for the government. The Air Force won't say what it did, though.

“CDC’s website is being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders.“

“It’s simply just a non-woke version, offering employers an alternative approach to diversity and inclusion.”

Just how radioactive was that Saharan dust cloud that engulfed Europe in 2022?

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 AI's boom or bust, trying Github's Copilot, and making time for good ideas.

The pleas mean that “Afgoo,” the person who provided the FBI with the backdoored encrypted phone company in the first place, likely won’t have to testify and have their identity revealed in court.

Here is the video archive for our FOIA Forum where we went deep on getting federal government records.

"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."

More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.

Github is also revealing a widespread, scattershot effort to nuke not only "DEI" but things that have nothing to do with it.