A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020
www.theguardian.com/news/ng- inte... Mastodon: Julian Oliver / @JulianOliver@mastodon.social : Interesting piece on Song-Chun Zhu, an influential ‘AI’ scientist who left the US after nearly 30yrs for ...
OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of OpenAI for Science, a new group with the goal of building an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery”
and accelerate research all over the world. Bluesky: @saltcreekbrews : I wasn't clear enough with my last post but this is clearly just a play to steal taxpayer dollars from NSF, NIH, DoE, DoD, etc. ...
The US NSF and Nvidia partner to fund the Open Multimodal Infrastructure to Accelerate Science project, led by Ai2; the NSF is contributing $75M and Nvidia $77M
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE :
Elon Musk calls the Senate tax bill “utterly insane” as it raises taxes on nuclear and geothermal energy and battery storage, which are crucial for AI training
Yet Rachel Frazin / The Hill : Updated Senate bill slashes wind and solar incentives — and adds a new tax Nellius Irene / Cryptopolitan : Elon Musk called Trump's new tax and spending bill “insane” Bl...
The Trump administration's plan to cut the budget of the NSF, considered key to US tech leadership, by about 57% to $3.9B is alarming the startup and VC sector
From NASA to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Trump's reform agenda has thrown numerous federal agencies under … LinkedIn: Jessica Mathews LinkedIn: Jessica Mathews : The most important and l...
The US National Science Foundation partners with OpenAI, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others to launch NAIRR, a pilot to expand researchers' access to AI tools
combining the best of safety, privacy, & use! We're hiring!!! https://openmined.org/... @whostp : Today, @NSF launched the National AI Research Resource pilot. Giving researchers, educators, and stude...
Hammerspace, which offers data orchestration systems for Blue Origin, NSF, Royal Caribbean Group, and others, raised $56M led by Aramco's Prosperity7 Ventures
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
The White House releases a “comprehensive framework” for US crypto regulation, outlining various federal agencies' recommendations after six months of study
here's what's in it The White House : Statement by NEC Director Brian Deese and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Digital Assets Framework Terence Zimwara / Bitcoin News : White House Release...
Biden's $2T infrastructure proposal allocates $50B for creating a technology directorate at the NSF and $50B for funding semiconductor manufacturing and R&D
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol :
Jeff Bezos says he is launching the Bezos Earth Fund to fight climate change and committing $10B “to start”, with first grants slated to be issued this summer
otherwise, they're not serious about actually making a difference. https://twitter.com/... Lydia DePillis / @lydiadepillis : Huh. I mean, that's real money. He's also saying “grants,” so it doesn't so...