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Tax chief pushes 'AI-first IRS' to get more out of agency's workforce

IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano told employees in an all-staff meeting Wednesday that an “AI-first IRS” will make its workforce more productive, after the agency cut more than a quarter of its headcount last year. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

ByJory Heckman,
Senior Reporter

October 2, 2026 10:54 AM ET

The IRS made more than 4,000 hires this year, but its headcount remains mostly unchanged after cutting more than a quarter of its workforce last year.

The IRS is looking to move more aggressively to adopt artificial intelligence tools, with the goal of being more responsive to taxpayers seeking help – while also ensuring individuals and businesses pay what they owe the tax agency.

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Implementing long-term AI agent memory in AlloyDB and Memorystore

Enterprise AI agents need persistent memory to execute complex, multi-day workflows and long-horizon tasks. In this blog, we examine how a 2-tier memory architecture using Memorystore for Valkey for short-term buffer memory and AlloyDB AI for long-term persistent memory can help reduce token spend by up to 70%, while maintaining

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KL University And Salesforce Set Up Tableau Lab For AI-Ready Analytics Skills

KL University has partnered with Salesforce to establish a Tableau Lab that will give students hands-on experience in enterprise analytics, AI-powered tools and applied business use cases. The initiative is designed to build data literacy and analytical skills across undergraduate, postgraduate and research programs. The lab will introduce students to

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These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open

Some big AI companies seem to think that the best way to keep models from becoming too chaotic or too mischievous is to keep them locked inside of labs. If only a chosen few can access them, the thinking goes, they can do less damage in the real world while

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Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre

Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puertollano, south of Madrid. Spain is drafting rules that would require data centre operators to be established in the EU and keep all data inside European borders. Alibaba has held talks with

The IRS made more than 4,000 hires this year, but its headcount remains mostly unchanged after cutting more than a quarter of its workforce last year.

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