Elon Musk's DOGE Staffers Went From Jobless to Hacking Anthropic

Remember DOGE? Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, which was appointed by Trump to cut costs and streamline federal operations. Its former employees are now hacking AI giant Anthropic. Four ex-employees of DOGE hacked Anthropic’s internal systems using AI agents within 12 hours. The news broke on the same day Anthropic filed to go public. How Did a Small Startup Get Inside Anthropic? DOGE was the cost-cutting office Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy ran for President Donald Trump. Its 2025 cuts helped push more than 250,000 people out of the federal workforce. The office itself closed on July 4, 2026 , with little fanfare. Less than three weeks later, four of its alumni surfaced with a $1.4 billion military cyber startup.

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