The Trump administration announced $5 billion in federal funding for the Genesis Mission, an AI-for-science program led by the Energy Department and involving 15+ federal agencies. Separate reports cover OpenAI's free access program for researchers and tech earnings expectations.
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The Trump administration said the United States will commit more than $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an AI-for-science program involving more than 15 federal agencies and led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Energy [theguardian.com#1][nasa.gov#1][thenextweb.com#1][engadget.com#1]. The administration said agencies will use the funding, datasets an
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios unveiled more than $5 billion in Federal commitments expanding the Genesis Mission alongside new mission-driven National Science and Technology Challenges. Tune in to the Genesis Mission 2026 Summit live on July 22, 2026 […] The post Trump Administration Annou
The Trump administration said on July 22 that the United States will commit more than $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an Energy Department-led effort to use artificial intelligence in federally backed scientific research [thenextweb.com#1][engadget.com#1][theguardian.com#1][tribune.com.pk#1]. More than 15 federal agencies, including Health and Human Services, Energy, Transportation, Defense, In
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report, "Science: A New Golden Age," on July 21 calling for federal research policy to put more emphasis on artificial intelligence, individual researchers, private-sector partnerships and faster paths from discovery to manufacturing [huxiu.com#1][tuoitre.vn#1][scmp.com#1]. OSTP Director Michael Kratsios presented the recommendatio
Enterprise AI vendors and practitioners are focusing on governance for AI agents as companies move from adding AI features to designing applications around AI from the start. AppViewX promoted a July 24 panel with leaders from ZoomInfo, Docusign and AppViewX on AI Centers of Excellence, agent identities and trusted AI product decisions. TechGenyz described AI-native applications as systems where i
Who needs life sciences when you have AI? 🙄🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 “Science: A New Golden Age” and drafted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, it calls for shifting hundreds of billions of research dollars from universities to industry, primarily tech and artificial intelligence companies. The Trump administration released its blueprint for U.S. science, calling for shifting hundre
The Trump administration unveiled the first "Genesis Mission" grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project." At roughly the same time, Trump's science adviser Michael Kratsios was on Capitol Hill selling lawmakers on […]
At the EPA Headquarters on Thursday, President Trump convened utilities, data center developers, and state leaders to announce a major expansion of his administration’s historic Ratepayer Protection Pledge — a first-of-its-kind commitment that ensures American AI dominance does not come at the expense of households and businesses. Here’s what they’re saying: Edison Electric Institute CEO Drew Malo
attentiontotheunseen.com/2026/07/24/t... The Verge reports: The Trump administration unveiled the first “Genesis Mission” grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has...
Oh yeah, and if Kratsios gets his way the US government won't fund life science research or universities anyway. Nature story: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Chief US science adviser calls for a shakeup in funding while handing out grants to accelerate research with AI.
Big technology companies’ AI infrastructure spending is pushing more risk into the U.S. corporate bond market, Bloomberg reported, while Cnyes said credit investors have started demanding wider spreads from issuers previously seen as high quality, including Alphabet, Amazon and Meta [bloomberg.com#1][cnyes.com#1]. Alphabet’s latest increase to its full-year capital spending forecast helped lift yi
South Korean companies announced artificial intelligence and semiconductor cooperation projects with U.S. technology firms valued at $950 billion during President Lee Jae Myung’s San Francisco AI Summit, according to South Korea’s presidential office and company statements [tribune.com.pk#1][malaymail.com#1][yna.co.kr#7]. The package includes SK Group agreements worth $750 billion, among them an N
AI Sovereignty and National Security: Identifying the UK’s Dimensions of Control UK, Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS)* 20 July 2026 "More critical national security uses, on the other hand, need high levels of control across all of these dimensions, which will likely involve UK-controlled inference, locally retained open-weight fallbacks, accredited environments, and tested port
www.instagram.com/p/DbOjh41OXs... sovereignty.ai on July 25, 2026: "The White House just redefined the future of science. 🏛🔬 Introducing “Science: A New Golden Age.” But here’s the catch— Funding is shifting FROM universities TO in...
Cybersecurity leaders and researchers warned that artificial intelligence is shortening cyberattack timelines and forcing defenders to change how they detect, contain and recover from intrusions. David Koh, founding chief executive of Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency, who retired on July 1, said AI-driven cyberattacks mean organizations cannot defend themselves “the same way as before” [channelne
Wall Street faces one of the busiest stretches of the second-quarter earnings season this week, with Microsoft and Meta Platforms due to report on Wednesday and Apple and Amazon on Thursday [fortune.com#1][yna.co.kr#1][vz.lt#1]. Investors are reassessing large artificial intelligence capital spending after Alphabet raised its 2026 capital-spending forecast to $195 billion-$205 billion and reported
Some large U.S. companies are adding workers after limiting hiring during a period when executives expected AI to replace more office work. The Wall Street Journal identified CSX, Alphabet and Booz Allen Hamilton among employers hiring for growth goals or new technologies [wsj.com#1][heraldcorp.com#1][yna.co.kr#1][asiae.co.kr#1]. Booz Allen Hamilton, which cut thousands of jobs after the Trump adm
Google Developers described metrics for evaluating AI coding agents that continuously absorb development context, detect risks and surface diagnostic information before a developer asks [googleblog.com#1]. In work tied to Jules, Google researchers said proactive agents need evaluation of an “insight policy”: what matters, what evidence supports an intervention and whether the agent should notify,
AI adoption in business is drawing attention to how companies organize work, prepare data and redesign customer-facing operations, not just to task automation. Fortune cited a framework from Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan that compares traditional work to a “fat hamburger” with a large execution layer; in the framework, AI shrinks execution and expands the human “decide” and “delive
Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, home to the Lovell telescope and the UK’s national radio astronomy facility, faces closure after UK Research and Innovation said it would withdraw funding for the e-Merlin network when the current agreement ends in March 2028 [bbc.co.uk#1][theguardian.com#1]. Scientific observations at the observatory are expected to stop on 1 April 2028 unless alternative fun
>Revoking an immigrant's citizenship has proven to be a costly and controversial practice over the years, but the Trump administration says hundreds of people deserve to have their citizenship stripped anyway. >The plan calls for ramping up the previously rare denaturalization process as a part of a broader immigration enforcement agenda, expanding a practice President Donald Trump started in his
Independent developers and small projects released AI tools for local inference, agent debugging, model routing and workflow automation. LLMrPro provides a self-hosted OpenAI-compatible API that sends requests first to user-owned machines and falls back to configured cloud providers when local workers cannot serve them [github.com#1]. Parley turns Apple Silicon Macs, NVIDIA workstations and spare
Earthjustice, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and DarkSky International have asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to halt or more closely scrutinize new licensing for proposed space-based data centers, warning that very large satellite networks for AI computing could damage Earth’s atmosphere and night sky [futurism.com#1][vnexpress.net#1][playtech.ro#1]. The 29-page
Tencent Holdings is quietly reallocating its venture capital bets away from legacy internet assets to double down on China’s highest-profile artificial intelligence champions. While the tech giant’s sprawling portfolio spans mobile gaming, e-commerce and consumer goods globally, its AI strategy has rapidly accelerated. Earlier this month, Tencent trimmed its long-held stake in Kuaishou Technology
The U.S. Department of Energy selected the Idaho National Laboratory-led Prometheus project to receive $60 million over three years under the Genesis Mission, the largest single award among 278 selected projects announced on July 22 [world-nuclear-news.org#1][igrownews.com#1]. Prometheus brings together national laboratories, universities and commercial partners to use artificial intelligence to a
AI coverage published July 27-28 showed companies and public institutions moving artificial intelligence into routine operations rather than treating it mainly as a chatbot or experimental tool. OpenAI said new research shows ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries, while Simon Willison described a shift from chat-based tools to agentic systems that can perform the
The Federal Open Market Committee opened its July 28-29 policy meeting, with a rate decision due Wednesday, July 29, as investors debate whether the central bank will hold rates at 3.50%-3.75% for a fifth straight meeting or raise them by 25 basis points [haberler.com#1][mt.co.kr#1][thenationalnews.com#1]. Market pricing still points to no change, but several measures put the probability of a July
President Trump’s plan to end U.S. reliance on Chinese critical minerals by Jan. 1, 2027, is constrained by limited U.S. mining and processing capacity, according to Reuters reporting cited by EnergyNow and Cnyes [energynow.com#1][cnyes.com#1]. Federal rules will bar defense contractors and other manufacturers from buying rare earths, magnets, tungsten, molybdenum and tantalum from China, Russia,
Obvious to anyone who understands and actually works with the tech. You can use a microwave in a pro kitchen, but it'd be pretty stupid to fire your cooks because you've got one. www.wsj.com/business/big... After a year of holding back on new hires, companies from tech and transportation to defense now say they need more people to work alongside AI.
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arXiv:2607.22953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI systems bring societal risks such as mass surveillance, extreme concentrations of power, and loss of user autonomy---calling into question a model where third-parties collect and control massive amounts of user data. Users require a sovereign system to securely own, govern, and disclose their context while remaining compliant across regul
South Korea’s Kospi plunged more than 10% on Tuesday as investors sold chipmakers linked to the artificial intelligence trade, prompting a temporary trading halt and pushing the benchmark to its lowest level since April [euronews.com#1][abcnews.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][yahoo.com#1]. The index closed 10.8% lower, while Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each fell by more than 13%, according to the BBC; AP
South Korea’s Kospi fell 10.84% to 6,023.66 on Tuesday, its lowest close since April 14, after investors sold technology shares on doubts about large-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure spending [yna.co.kr#2][bbc.co.uk#1]. Korea Exchange halted KOSPI-listed share trading for 20 minutes at 10:14 a.m. after the index dropped more than 8%, while Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each fell by
Katalyst Space Technologies’ Link spacecraft, launched July 3 on a Pegasus to raise the orbit of NASA’s Swift Observatory, has run into attitude-control problems that could jeopardize the rescue attempt [spacenews.com#1][hvg.hu#1]. Katalyst said on July 28 that Link had entered a “multi-axis spin” over the previous 72 hours, causing a temporary loss of communications and a bus reset [spacenews.com
Florida property owners and consumers are facing multiple identity-related fraud schemes, including AI-assisted deed fraud, an alleged attempt to steal an elderly man’s identity in Brooksville and a “brushing” scam involving unwanted packages in Deerfield Beach [floridarealtors.org#1][floridadaily.com#1][wsvn.com#1]. Florida Realtors cited a July 2 HousingWire story by attorney Evan Rosenberg, who
SK Hynix reported record second-quarter results on Wednesday, but revenue of 79.31 trillion won and operating profit of 60.54 trillion won missed analyst expectations cited by several market reports, renewing selling in AI-linked chip shares [capital.gr#1][news18.com#1][koreatimes.co.kr#1]. The South Korean memory-chip maker said sales rose 256.8% from a year earlier, operating income rose 557.2%,
Companies are pulling back from “tokenmaxxing,” a workplace fad built around maximizing use of generative AI tools, after bills rose without matching productivity gains, AP technology writer Matt O’Brien reported [abcnews.com#1][fastcompany.com#1][techxplore.com#1]. Tokens are small pieces of text and other data that AI models read and generate, and businesses increasingly pay AI vendors based on
Warnings about the economics of the artificial intelligence boom intensified this week as the Bank for International Settlements said AI could make it harder for central banks to judge inflation and set interest rates because the technology boosts demand and supply at the same time [ft.com#1][yna.co.kr#1][ltn.com.tw#1][eleconomista.com.mx#1]. BIS economists said AI spending is already affecting in
Corporate # America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on # AI Companies big and small are mixing models and it’s changing the economics Being economical—or # tokenomical —is a dramatic reversal in mindset. Just a few months ago, it was a badge of honor to be using AI so much that you spent a lot on tokens. Companies rewarded employees for # tokenmaxxing , flashing leaderboards that showed
To my knowledge, this is the first formally verified implementation of a 3D constructive solid geometry (CSG) operation: mesh intersection, implemented in Lean 4 and verified against a concise specification that pins down the surface of the resulting mesh exactly and guarantees practical well-formedness conditions on the triangulation. This project is also an experiment in avoiding having to trust
A new blog from Proofpoint AI threat researchers highlights how cybercriminals are incorporating AI tooling and generated material into attack chains. 🔗 https://www. proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat- insight/notes-underground-adversarial-prompt-injection?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_organic We continue to observe activity on underground criminal forums, suggesting that Indirect Prompt Inject
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met Tuesday with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as the Trump administration investigates potential violations involving Nvidia chip exports to China, according to a source familiar. Why it matters: Huang is in Washington as the Trump administration finalizes a framework that would give the government early access to the most advanced AI models before their release. Offic
The Starling project announced an open-source Linux desktop preview on July 28, a v0.2 Ubuntu build developed over six months by one person with substantial use of Claude and other AI-assisted coding tools [phoronix.com#1][starling.build#1]. The project site says the public repositories contain about 335,000 lines of first-party Swift, C and C++ across roughly 2,000 commits, while Phoronix reports
President Trump expanded a voluntary pledge with governors and electricity companies aimed at protecting U.S. consumers from higher utility bills tied to AI data centers, after first announcing the commitment with AI and technology companies in March [renewableenergyworld.com#1]. Speaking at the Environmental Protection Agency on July 23, Trump urged executives and governors to persuade communitie
Keiko Fujimori took office as Peru’s president on July 28, becoming the first woman elected by popular vote to lead the country and bringing Fujimorism back to power nearly 26 years after her father, Alberto Fujimori, left office [elpais.com#1][apnews.com#1][euronews.com#1][caribbeannews.net#1]. The 51-year-old Popular Force leader won June’s runoff against left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez by f
Beijing-based Moonshot AI released the full weights for Kimi K3 on July 27 after introducing Kimi 3 in mid-July. Fast Company described the roughly 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model as likely the largest of its kind ever released [fastcompany.com#1][simonwillison.net#1]. The model can process text, images and audio and supports a 1-million-token context window [fastcompany.com#1]. Moonshot
According to the journalist Ken Klippenstein, FEMA has a new mission: Domestic Terrorism. "The Federal Emergency Management Agency, often criticized for its inadequate response to natural disasters like wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes, has been assigned a new mission: “domestic terrorism.” Now FEMA is shelling out grant money to state and local authorities to build up capacity to carr
🔹 The Hacker News Claude AI Just Cracked a Post-Quantum Test Scheme and Found a Faster 7-Round AES Attack Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128. The HAWK attack exploits a previously unused symmetry in the lattice behind the signature scheme. Anthropic's released imp
AI companies are buying large numbers of physical books, including used and antique volumes, and destroying them after copying their contents for AI training, PC Gamer and HVG reported [pcgamer.com#1][google.com#1][hvg.hu#1]. PC Gamer described the purchases as anonymous and routed through middleman services, while HVG said the practice gives developers access to large quantities of cheap printed
# AI Thought from Yesterday (I just used today's thought slot) The reason these thought came out is I was just looking at a 10hr a week volunteer spot, where they will "give a short AI-generated interview" as the first step I get that a small volunteer-run group is looking for ways to help get through the applicants; I could do with out that (and am going to skip it) but that's beside the point I
SK Hynix reported record second-quarter results on Wednesday, posting sales of about 79.31 trillion won, operating profit of 60.54 trillion won and net profit of 93.92 trillion won, helped by demand for high-bandwidth memory and other chips used in AI servers [businessinsider.com#1][cnbc.com#1][brecorder.com#1][yna.co.kr#1][koreatimes.co.kr#1]. Revenue rose about 257% from a year earlier and opera
Asian semiconductor and AI-linked shares extended a sell-off after investors cut exposure to companies that had led this year’s artificial-intelligence rally. South Korea’s Kospi closed 10.8% lower Tuesday after a temporary trading halt, with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both falling by more than 13%; Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped about 4%, and Taiwan’s market also fell, with TSMC under pressure
Just hit 100 🌟 on GitHub for LoopTroop v0.4! LoopTroop is a free & open-source local AI coding orchestrator that turns tickets into real PRs without endless chat drift. ⚙️ LLM councils plan the work 🔁 Ralph loops iterate & perfect it 🌲 OpenCode worktrees ship the PR Built with human approval gates, planned task beads, and local control. The first 100 stars are the hardest. Huge thanks to everyo
I have tried journaling many times but nothing stuck. So I decided to make my own app for myself with these features: * Voice first * Private first * AI chat * Automatic tagging, meaning extraction, and semantic retrieval using embeddings stored locally * Export to LLM the AI angle is especially interesting for me. It allows me to ask questions like: * "remind me highlights and crazy nights in the
Hong Kong’s main public research funding body for universities has approved a record 12 projects worth about HK$478 million in its latest financing round, with artificial intelligence featuring in more than a third of successful proposals, including one aimed at cutting AI data centre power use by up to 20 per cent. The higher education institutions receiving the most funding are City University,
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The most pleasant agentic AI system is the least secure one. That's the trap Rob van der Veer, Chief AI Officer at Software Improvement Group, lays out clearly: the agent that never says "permission denied" is the agent everyone loves to use. It always works. So we open up all the privileges just to keep it that way. He says we should do the contrary. Rob is the founder of the OWASP AI Exchange an
Oof... https://www. newsweek.com/pentagon-photo-sh ows-ai-agent-being-asked-to-help-create-a-war-12258627 "A Pentagon social media post promoting the military's growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) has drawn attention after a photograph appeared to show an AI agent being asked to help "create a war." The image was included in an X post by the Department of War Chief Technology Office highli
Central bankers, as a rule, try to maintain stable prices, a strong job market and a sound financial system. The AI boom is a complexifier on all three fronts. The big picture: AI is blurring the usual indicators that central bankers rely upon to set policy, a new paper from a leading international body finds, simultaneously affecting the supply and demand sides of the economy and driving both str
I was recently laid off after 18 years, and gave myself 100 days to build soething useful in public. CheapFoodMap is a crowdsourced map of meal under $10, excluding franchises, local good eats only. It's inspried by 거지맵 (Begger's Map) a Korean crowdsourced map students use to find cheap eats. Ocverage is heaviest in Texas, since I live in Dallas, but have 1200 meals across 15 US cities. Seed data
OpenAI is launching a new program Wednesday that will provide 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its advanced AI models through 2027, the company told Axios ahead of the announcement. Why it matters: The program could help scientists, mathematicians and engineers pursue the kind of breakthroughs that OpenAI and other AI companies say the technology could enable. Driving the news: Tho
Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Tech takes center stage as investors await blockbuster results from Microsoft and Meta. Oil surges after President Trump threatens new strikes on Iran, putting markets on edge. Plus, will the Federal Reserve stand pat or deliver a surprise. We'll break it all down with Goldman Sachs' David Mericle, Battery Ventur