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šŸ•¶ļø DOGE’s AI tool says ā€œnopeā€ to half the government

From deregulation bots to dairy mania, here’s your Tuesday dose of tech weirdness

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DOGE’s AI is out deleting federal rules like spam emails, Trump just greenlit Nvidia chip sales to China — and national security experts are not having it. Harness is making AI test its own sketchy code, Gwyneth Paltrow is the new face of a scandal-plagued data startup, and TikTok made cottage cheese the hottest thing since oat milk.

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DOGE: Elon’s old team has a bot to break the rules (literally)

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has developed a new AI-powered Deregulation Decision Tool aimed at slashing up to 50% of the federal government’s 200,000 regulations by Trump’s first year back in office, according to a leaked PowerPoint obtained by The Washington Post. The AI has already been deployed at agencies like HUD and the CFPB, where it reportedly authored ā€œ100% of deregulations.ā€ While the White House says no official plan is finalized, they hailed the DOGE team—once led by Elon Musk—as top-tier talent. Still, skeptics note DOGE’s previous AI efforts have included tools with a tendency to hallucinate, raising concerns about reliability amid high-stakes policy rollbacks.

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Experts drag Trump’s AI chip deal with China

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A coalition of 20 national security experts and former officials is urging the Trump administration to reverse its decision to allow Nvidia to resume selling its H20 AI chips in China, warning the move is a ā€œstrategic misstepā€ that jeopardizes U.S. technological and military advantages. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the group argued the H20 chip—designed to skirt export restrictions and optimized for inference—outperforms even the previously restricted H100 and could bolster China’s frontier AI and military capabilities.

The critics contend this decision weakens U.S. chip export controls, intensifies domestic supply bottlenecks, and prioritizes trade over national security. The letter, signed by former officials from the Trump and Bush administrations, follows the DOC's recent clearance of H20 sales amid trade negotiations over rare earth elements, and arrives just after the administration's vague new AI Action Plan that underscored—but didn’t clarify—export control policy.

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