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Presidential Transition

President Joe Biden shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump team signs transition MOU but refuses GSA’s tech services

GSA traditionally provides IT services that facilitate “secure connectivity and collaboration” between transition teams and the federal government,” but the Trump team has chosen to forgo using…
Former OSTP deputy CTO Jennifer Pahlka speaks onstage at WIRED25 Summit on Oct. 15, 2018, in San Francisco. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for WIRED25)

Trump wants a DOGE. An Obama-era tech official has some tips.

Pahlka, who wrote about transforming government services in her book “Recoding America,” said the DOGE leaders need to connect with people already doing the work.
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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on the fiscal year 2025 budget in Washington, D.C. on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Allison Bailey / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

DHS secretary hopes Trump admin will preserve agency’s AI board

Alejandro Mayorkas rolled out an AI framework for safe and secure use of the technology.
President Joe Biden shakes hand with former President Donald Trump as they join family and friends at Ground Zero on the 23rd anniversary of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Where Biden’s voluntary AI commitments go from here

Only some of the 16 companies explicitly said they’d stick to the AI pledges made to the current administration.
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