Interesting Times — Inside the White House’s Push for More A.I.
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In the early 2000s, roughly 70% of U.S. computer science PhD graduates were U.S. citizens and 30% were foreign nationals.
The ratio of U.S. citizens to foreign nationals earning computer science PhDs has inverted since the early 2000s.
All U.S. government agencies have access to the Genesis Mission scientific instrument.
The US government has access to frontier labs’ models for at least 30 days before their release.
A presidential goal called for four new reactor designs to go critical by the Fourth of July.
A four-year PhD program was launched in partnership with universities and industry, with students spending their fourth year at an industry lab.
At many universities, foreign-national postdocs on J-1 visas are paid less than Americans doing the same postdoctoral work.
The U.S. federal government owns equity stakes in about 30 companies.
The federal government announced that 190 federal data sets were being made public to help train science models.
Polling shows public opinion has been shifting strongly against AI.
Billions, if not trillions, of dollars are being invested in superintelligence by the private sector.
Private-sector research and development spending is dramatically higher than it has ever been.
The number of NIH grants awarded to people over age 65 exceeds the number awarded to people under age 35.
President Trump's proposed FY27 budget contains the largest research and development budget in U.S. history.
President Trump funded the largest class of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships in history.
Sixty percent of people who receive PhDs do not become academics.
The National Science Foundation relaunched a young scholars program that funded gifted and talented K–12 science and technology students.
The federal government is not funding the creation of a next frontier model.
The team at Idaho National Lab is using superintelligence-powered models to build pieces of reactors more quickly.
Universities in ten southeastern U.S. states committed to a consortium for sharing computing resources.
The vast majority of National Science Foundation grants are awarded through peer review.
Nvidia is the most valuable company in history.
An executive order signed on June 2 called for a voluntary relationship in which frontier labs share models with the US government for analysis and testing before release.
Four new reactor designs went critical by the Fourth of July.
The Genesis Mission is being built in U.S. national laboratories.
National Science Foundation funding would decrease under President Trump's plan.
President Trump recently awarded the National Medal of Science to Jensen Huang.
President Trump recently awarded the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk.
President Trump recently awarded the National Medal of Science to Lisa Su.
President Trump recently awarded the National Medal of Science to Sergey Brin.
Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su and Sergey Brin are all immigrants.
The Trump administration decided to make an investment in Intel using money appropriated to support the semiconductor industry.
President Trump has suggested that worries about superintelligence are a kind of hoax.
The president set a goal of making a scientifically relevant fault-tolerant quantum computer by the end of the presidential term.
NASA has a goal of putting a nuclear reactor in space by 2028.
NASA has a goal of putting elements of a moon base in place by 2030.