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The Person in Charge of Testing Tech for US Spies Has Resigned


IARPA director Rick Muller is departing after just over a year at the R&D unit that invests in emerging technologies of potential interest to agencies like the NSA and the CIA, WIRED has learned.

The head of the US government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is leaving the unit this month to take a job with a quantum computing company, WIRED has learned. The Trump administration reportedly has been moving to cut the workforces of intelligence agencies as part of the president’s broad efforts to dismantle diversity programs and streamline government operations. In April, Muller told Federal News Network that the cybersecurity risks of large language models would be a priority for upcoming research.

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