On Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued against a proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation in a New York […]
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Trump is forcing states to funnel grant money to Starlink, Senate Democrats say
Lutnick’s announcement of the BEAD overhaul also criticized what he called the program’s “woke mandates” and “burdensome regulations.” Republicans like […]
Analysis: Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” is already wearing thin
Skip to content FDA head uses great-sounding science standards to dismiss COVID vaccine benefits. Iron pyrite, often called fool’s gold. […]
GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill
The reconciliation bill primarily focuses on cuts to Medicaid access and increased health care fees for millions of Americans. The […]
Trump just made it much harder to track the nation’s worst weather disasters
The Trump administration’s steep staff cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) triggered shutdowns of several climate-related programs […]
Report: DOGE supercharges mass-layoff software, renames it to sound less dystopian
“It is not clear how AutoRIF has been modified or whether AI is involved in the RIF mandate (through AutoRIF […]
Trump admin to roll back Biden’s AI chip restrictions
The changing face of chip export controls The Biden-era chip restriction framework, which we covered in January, established a three-tiered […]
Trump’s 2026 budget proposal: Crippling cuts for science across the board
Budget document derides research and science-based policy as “woke,” “scams.” On Friday, the US Office of Management and Budget sent […]
Trump’s National Climate Assessment: No funding and all authors cut loose
As part of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, Congress mandated that every four years, the government must produce […]
NSF director resigns amid 55% budget cut, mass layoffs from Trump admin
Director of the National Science Foundation Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly resigned Thursday, Science Magazine first reported. Panchanathan, who goes by Panch, […]