It’s planning to launch a new API called AI.gov on July 4th.
It’s planning to launch a new API called AI.gov on July 4th.
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Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform.
The Trump administration is working on an “AI.gov” website and API to “accelerate government innovation with AI,” 404 Media found based on code posted to Github and an early version of the site.
The project appears to be run by the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services, led by former Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd. Shedd, who The New York Times has identified as an ally to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has previously discussed using AI to detect fraud, analyze government contracts, and create “AI coding agents” to write software for federal agencies, according to multiple reports.
The early AI.gov website discovered by 404 Media (the live URL currently redirects to the White House website) describes three tools that are part of the platform, “powered by the best in American AI.” They are: an AI chat assistant, an API to connect with models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, and a console “to analyze agency-wide implementation.” The project is expected to launch on July 4th, 404 reports.
DOGE has sought to use AI to replace the work of the thousands of federal workers it’s helped expel, Wired has reported. Though Musk recently left the government and has been engaged in a posting war with the President, the AI.gov project suggests DOGE’s legacy is still kicking.
