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Maybe you missed this: Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub [View all]
Updated We're less than a month away from the Trump administration's launch of an initiative to push AI across the entire federal government, based on a code repository eagle-eyed onlookers spotted on GitHub before it disappeared.
The US General Services Administration (GSA, the federal government's purchasing arm) and its Technology Transformation Services (TTS) group are working on an "ai.gov" website, according to a GitHub repository that vanished from the web shortly after we sent an email asking questions about it. (An archived backup is here.) The repository was previously reported by 404 Media.
From what we were able to gather before the feds presumably locked it down, AI.gov will serve as a hub for government agencies to begin adding AI to their operations, as was envisioned by TTS chief and Elon Musk ally Thomas Shedd when he took control of the team in late January.
Shedd, whose professional career was largely spent as a software integration engineering manager at Tesla before being tapped to head the TTS, came to the government with AI top of mind. He reportedly wants GSA to operate like a software startup, and proposed a whole-of-government, AI-first strategy to automate much of the work done by federal employees today.
Based on a staging link of the AI.gov site hosted on GitHub that has also been taken down (we have an archive copy for you, thankfully), Shedd's mission will kick off in earnest on July 4 – the apparent launch date for the site, according to an issues thread from the now-hidden GitHub page.
The US General Services Administration (GSA, the federal government's purchasing arm) and its Technology Transformation Services (TTS) group are working on an "ai.gov" website, according to a GitHub repository that vanished from the web shortly after we sent an email asking questions about it. (An archived backup is here.) The repository was previously reported by 404 Media.
From what we were able to gather before the feds presumably locked it down, AI.gov will serve as a hub for government agencies to begin adding AI to their operations, as was envisioned by TTS chief and Elon Musk ally Thomas Shedd when he took control of the team in late January.
Shedd, whose professional career was largely spent as a software integration engineering manager at Tesla before being tapped to head the TTS, came to the government with AI top of mind. He reportedly wants GSA to operate like a software startup, and proposed a whole-of-government, AI-first strategy to automate much of the work done by federal employees today.
Based on a staging link of the AI.gov site hosted on GitHub that has also been taken down (we have an archive copy for you, thankfully), Shedd's mission will kick off in earnest on July 4 – the apparent launch date for the site, according to an issues thread from the now-hidden GitHub page.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_admin_leak_government_ai_plans/?td=rt-4a
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