A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers

By Vittoria Elliott · Wired · Wednesday, 7 October 2026 at 10:30 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.

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