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White House steers $5 billion toward AI research in biggest federal science overhaul in 80 years

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Federal agencies pledged over $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, funding 278 AI-for-science projects selected from more than 5,000 applications

Federal agencies have committed more than $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an Energy Department-led effort to use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific research, White House science adviser Michael Kratsios announced on Wednesday. The initiative selected 278 projects from more than 5,000 applications, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said at a summit in Washington. More than 15 federal agencies are contributing research awards, funding, datasets, and facilities to the programme.

The Genesis Mission was established by a November 2025 executive order and is part of what the administration describes as the largest marshalling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo programme. Under Secretary for Science Dario Gil, who is directing the effort for the Energy Department, said the mission brings together leading researchers, institutions, and technology partners to build what...

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US GAO study: Amazon workers on federal aid tripled from February 2020 to September 2025; ride-hailing and delivery apps topped employers with workers on aid

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Stuart Fails to Save the Universe will contradict Big Bang Theory lore — and according to the new HBO Max show's creators, it's a 'deliberate choice'

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OpenAI scored an own goal with HuggingFace attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning

AI and ML Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused OPINION OpenAI has acknowledged its models powered the autonomous agents that compromised HuggingFace infrastructure. It might be taken as a convoluted marketing stunt, were it not the perfect

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US GAO study: Amazon workers on federal aid tripled from February 2020 to September 2025; ride-hailing and delivery apps topped employers with workers on aid

Meta's infrastructure teams have become bloated, leading to poor decisions like troubled Rivos acquisition, loss of supplier trust due to hardware pivots, more

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe will contradict Big Bang Theory lore &mdash; and according to the new HBO Max show's creators, it's a 'deliberate choice'

OpenAI scored an own goal with HuggingFace attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe will contradict Big Bang Theory lore — and according to the new HBO Max show's creators, it's a 'deliberate choice'