Technologist Powell Garcia is using AI to create photos of people's most precious memories.

How her mother was dressed, the haircut that she remembered.

We generated tens of images and then she saw two images that was like, that was it.

Ideas about the future of memory.

That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from

NPR. Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The Trump administration is slashing the

budget of the General Services Administration in half that could affect nearly all federal property and contracts.

NPR's Janet McLaughlin reports that's according to sources who spoke to NPR, a condition

of anonymity fearing further retribution from the Trump administration.

The General Services Administration manages federal real estate across the country, as well as nearly

all federal contracts. Without it, federal agencies would have a lot of

trouble buying things and providing essential public services. However, GSA employees have been told

their budget is being cut by 50%, spread across contracts, leases, and personnel salaries. Employees who

remain and who don't take a deferred resignation offer will be subject to heightened surveillance,

including installation of what's called a key logger, software that tracks everything the user types.

It could be the model for the rest of the federal government going forward.

Jen McLaughlin, NPR News.

Two division chiefs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resigned today.

As NPR's Laura Wamsley explains, it's the latest fallout as the Trump administration puts the consumer watchdog in its

crosshairs. The CFPB's directors of enforcement and supervision resigned, citing the stop work order

issued by the Consumer Finance Watchdog's new acting director, Russell Vote. Vote is the White House budget director

and one of the architects of the conservative policy blueprint, Project 2025.

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