Employees of the General Services Administration, which manages government real estate and certain IT efforts, have been given a custom chatbot from Elon Musk’s DOGE to help automate tasks, according to a new report from Wired, with an internal memo telling workers it can be used to “draft emails, create talking points, summarize text, write code.” The chatbot, GSAi, gives users a choice of three models — Claude Haiku 3.5 (the default), Claude Sonnet 3.5 v2 and Meta Llama 3.2 — and is ultimately meant to be used to “analyze contract and procurement data,” Wired reports. The GSA is one…
Author: Olivia White
President Donald Trump praised Elon Musk for opening “a lot of eyes” through DOGE’s cost-cutting mission, calling the multi-billionaire entrepreneur a “real patriot” for “paying a price” to get the job done. “This is something that’s really not good for him, and yet he’s doing it,” Trump said in a “Sunday Morning Futures” exclusive interview that aired this week. “But he’s opened a lot of eyes.” Musk has stood at the helm of DOGE since its inception before Trump took office on Jan. 20. Since Trump’s second term began, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO has pinpointed allegedly wasteful contracts, grants,…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is considering taking a first step to using cryptocurrency, according to a meeting recording and other materials reviewed by ProPublica and three officials familiar with the matter. Two officials told ProPublica they believe the initiative may be a trial run for the use of crypto across the federal government. The discussions have sparked concern among some at the department, especially about the prospect of paying recipients of major federal grants…
Spring in Colorado doesn’t arrive all at once. It tiptoes in, bringing unpredictable winds and the promise of warmer days. From my desk, clouds race across the sky. The ground is softening. Buds are blooming. And the air is filled with fresh energy. Like clockwork, my body is shifting too. The sluggishness of winter is beginning to lift—and with it, a desire to reset. If you’re feeling called to support your body in a new way, it might be time for a spring hormone reset. As a Nutrition Consultant, here’s how I’m nourishing my hormones this season, with simple shifts…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Idaho lawmakers are moving forward with modest efforts to improve the state’s system for investigating deaths, following reports by ProPublica and others that identified major problems. At the same time, counties are moving to shield from public view records that ProPublica relied on in its coverage. “Before you today is a bill that is a long time coming, and I say that because over the course of decades, since…