Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Getting Technical with Mashable Mashable Selects Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus Trending Now In My Bag Mashable @Home Top creators, ranked Creator Playbook All Series Elon Musk admits he'got carried away' leading DOGE The billionaire agreed that he was basically drunk on the Trump administration's power. Amanda Yeo is an Assistant Editor at Mashable, covering entertainment, culture, tech, science, and social good. Based in Australia, she writes about everything from video games and K-pop to movies and gadgets. Elon Musk says he got carried away when working with the White House, and now thinks he shouldn't have continued running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for so long. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk says he'll give every kid in America a SpaceX share in 2027 President Donald Trump established DOGE within days of his inauguration last January, tasking vocal supporter Musk to lead it in reducing alleged government overspending.

'Like the Trump administration, the tech overlords have proceeded on the assumption they can ignore or override the will of the people.' 'Like the Trump administration, the tech overlords have proceeded on the assumption they can ignore or override the will of the people.' The midterms will be a referendum on the GOP's alignment with tech overlords over the public they're meant to serve "The world should accept some bad things happening," Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, said recently, "for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency." Like so many things tech oligarchs say, it's incoherent, since Altman would like to deny the world and the people in it the agency to decide whether or not we should accept his bad things. Surveys show that most Americans would like to pause AI; opposition to AI datacenters is a factor in many races in the midterm elections. People are outraged and anxious about what tech hath wrought, mad enough to fight back in what is coming to seem like a human v machine battle. I've been a fan of the film Terminator 2 forever, the one where a badass female protagonist leads the action-movie-style spectacular destruction of Skynet, the massive computer system that will otherwise go rogue and pit itself and a plethora of advanced weapons against the human race.

Democrats Are Gearing Up to Investigate the Trump Administration. As a recent government report on DOGE shows, even getting basic information out of the Trump administration will put a new Congress to the test. As polls indicate Democrats could take back the US House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, lawmakers are gearing up to investigate the Trump administration. But that may prove to be a difficult task, even with a majority in both chambers of Congress. In late September, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency titled "DOGE: Congress and the Public Lack Assurance That Systems and Data Were Protected at Multiple Agencies."

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United States President Donald Trump has awarded the country's most prestigious honours in science and engineering to executives from top technology firms including SpaceX, Alphabet, Microsoft and Nvidia. On Thursday, Trump presented the National Medal of Science to billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Lisa Su of the semiconductor firm AMD. At the award ceremony, Trump credited the honourees with "helping pioneer an incredible future for America". "Because of these people here, we will always be on top. No one else can compete with us," Trump said.

Humans First chairwoman Amy Kremer calls for AI safety guardrails to protect children from chatbot dangers and prevent artificial intelligence from displacing American workers.

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USC has named David Madigan, a statistician and former Northeastern University provost, to succeed Andrew Guzman as its chief academic officer, the most senior academic hire under President Beong-Soo Kim.

The Supreme Court cleared the Trump administration to continue third-country deportation of illegal aliens while justices consider a legal challenge to the policy.

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