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U.S. Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, directing federal policy on research, innovation and emerging technologies.
Senators Cantwell and Rounds asked the Trump administration to coordinate a response to AI agent break-ins they put at "tens of thousands". With a Democrat and a Republican signing, the pressure is real. The incident count is the senators' own figure.
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MIT enrolled nearly 500 fewer graduate students this fall, down 20% from 2024, after federal research awards fell $100 million, its president said. Sally Kornbluth said the school admits cautiously so no Ph.D. student runs out of funding midway.
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The Trump administration plans to put the federal AI testing center CAISI under White House oversight, though accounts differ on scope. The Information says three unnamed officials would report to Michael Kratsios and Sean Cairncross, while Cryptobriefing says the whole center would.
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Trump's Sept. 29 executive order directs federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "AI" in official documents. Executives deciding whether to echo that wording have three public models so far, set by Musk, Nadella and Altman.
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Donald Trump is giving the National Medal of Science to Musk, Brin, Huang and Su and the technology medal to Dell and Nadella on Thursday. CNBC reported that all six have funded Trump or Republican causes, and his latest disclosure shows trades in companies tied to five of them.
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Donald Trump signed an order on Sept. 29 telling executive agencies to write "Super Intelligence" and "SI" for AI in new documents. Contracts and rules already issued keep their wording, and any change to what the term legally covers would come from a definition the White House science adviser has 60 days to propose.
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Ginkgo Bioworks is offering remote time on its Boston robotic lab to teams in NSF's X-Labs, a decade-long program that could invest up to $1.5 billion. The offer tests whether federally funded teams will rent a robotic wet lab before building their own.
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National Compute plans to pledge $100 million in compute credits to the Genesis Mission at Thursday's White House event, Business Insider reported. Researchers cannot schedule work against the credits until the providers, eligibility rules and start date are disclosed.
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NASA will expand dual-anonymous peer review of science proposals and fund 10 Genesis Mission Fellows, it said at the White House Golden Age Summit. Proposers should expect more calls judged without names attached, in a change NASA's administrator describes as an experiment in how the agency evaluates ideas.
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Dario Amodei has his first one-on-one with Trump on Sunday as Anthropic readies an expected IPO under a Pentagon blacklist a court upheld 2-1. A dinner can ease the feud with the president, but the ban on military use of Claude stays with the courts and the Pentagon.
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Donald Trump said Saturday the US 'is not going to be putting on brakes' for AI after a three-day Xi summit produced no broad AI deal. For companies spending on AI, a federal slowdown now depends on lawmakers moving without the president.
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Masayoshi Son, whose SoftBank is projected to commit $65 billion to OpenAI, is now voicing concern about AI safety risks, according to Bloomberg. Holders now have to judge whether the warning changes the money, since the stock has so far traded on what the labs say.
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OpenAI says it disrupted a large-scale effort by users tied to Moonshot AI to extract protected reasoning from its models. That makes three US accusers of the lab behind Kimi K3, and the published evidence so far covers attempted extraction only.
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Bill Gates told NBC that AI misuse could cause a billion deaths and that safeguards and monitoring must be required by law. The White House science chief's reply to such calls, that worried developers can just stop, suggests a federal statute is further off than the pressure implies.
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A White House memo asks federal agencies to clear the way to 1,000 US launches and re-entries a year by 2030, from 178. The scarce input is range frequency and airspace, not hardware.
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The conduct described is authorised API traffic at scale rather than an intrusion, the detection asked for is billing telemetry providers already hold, and on Beijing's role the advisory goes no further than likely government awareness.
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Y Combinator's chief said he would do nothing about model distillation, two days after the NSA, FBI and CISA accused six Chinese firms of doing it at scale. Every defence the agencies recommend is the providers' own work.
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang told CBS News there is a 0% chance AI ends the world in 2030, and that the lab chiefs asking Washington for guardrails want relief from the liability law already on the books. The White House agrees with him.
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Semafor's three sources put the Treasury secretary at the front of a four-name field for a post whose structure and authority Trump has not described. The White House calls unannounced personnel reporting baseless speculation.
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Dario Amodei and Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that AI could threaten humanity and asked governments to set safeguards. The White House science adviser in the room said no new global governance structure is needed.
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