White House office that advises the President on science and technology policy and coordinates federal research, R&D priorities and tech initiatives.
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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NASA and the Energy Department signed one memorandum covering space nuclear work from fuel production to launch, ahead of a 2028 reactor flight. It takes effect Nov. 1, and a December 2025 executive order already calls for a launch-ready lunar reactor by 2030.
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President Trump ordered federal agencies to write 'Super Intelligence' in place of 'AI' in correspondence, websites, reports and policy documents. The order sets no new duty for model builders; what could change their scope is a proposed statutory definition due to the President within 60 days.
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Wired reports the FINRA-style oversight framework has sat in limbo since executives called Trump in August. Product teams are left with an embedded-auditor bill and no House voting days before the midterms.
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The asks were made to foreign trade ministers rather than to Congress. Waiting for them was a paper, the Carolina Principles, that would commit signatories to a hands-off approach no EU-facing compliance checklist recognises.
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The framework the US floated at the Chapel Hill ministerial promises industry-led standards and no approval agency, which leaves a compliance team citing a voluntary document that nobody signs until December in Miami.
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A 24-page national security science strategy calls brain-computer interfaces and digital assets critical technologies. Open weights and open-source development appear nowhere in it.
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