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White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

A White House office that advises the US President on science and technology issues, including AI, tech, and research policy.

Known aliases

  • Office of Science and Technology Policy
  • US Office of Science and Technology Policy

Current stories

productConfirmed6 publishers

Nvidia pledges $1 billion for Genesis Mission science in shares it has not disclosed

Nvidia committed $1 billion over five years to US science research tied to the Trump administration's Genesis Mission. It has not published how the money splits, so labs and cloud buyers cannot yet tell who gets compute or when.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
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Builder 32%
Operator
Operator 37%
Investor
Investor 31%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
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Hype gap+35
Incentives70
Confidence62
investOne report1 publisher

Anthropic and OpenAI hire at least five former Trump officials as AI firms seek favor with the White House

Anthropic and OpenAI have hired at least five former Trump administration officials between them, CNBC reported. The jobs are in compute strategy and national security policy, the parts of each lab that federal procurement rules and export controls can reach.

Publishers:cnbc.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives58
Confidence58
buildOne report1 publisher

Ginkgo offers NSF's X-Labs teams remote time on its Boston robotic lab

Ginkgo Bioworks is offering remote time on its Boston robotic lab to teams in NSF's X-Labs, a decade-long program that could invest up to $1.5 billion. The offer tests whether federally funded teams will rent a robotic wet lab before building their own.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption10
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence45
scienceOne report1 publisher

NASA widens dual-anonymous peer review of science proposals under a metascience push

NASA will expand dual-anonymous peer review of science proposals and fund 10 Genesis Mission Fellows, it said at the White House Golden Age Summit. Proposers should expect more calls judged without names attached, in a change NASA's administrator describes as an experiment in how the agency evaluates ideas.

Publishers:nasa.gov

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
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Hype gap+35
Incentives70
Confidence45
securityConfirmed7 publishers

TA419 courts AI policy experts before phishing their cloud accounts

Proofpoint says China-aligned TA419 has posed as a former White House official and an Anthropic employee to phish AI policy experts since at least April 2025. The first approach asks for nothing; the credential-stealing link follows only after a target replies.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
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Builder 28%
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Operator 59%
Investor
Investor 13%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
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Hype gap+20
Incentives30
Confidence65
buildOne report1 publisher

China-aligned TA419 phishes US AI policy experts through a proxy that captures Microsoft session cookies

Proofpoint says China-aligned TA419 has phished US AI policy experts since April 2025 with a proxy that captures Microsoft session cookies and bypasses MFA. Its fix is passkeys plus out-of-band checks on unsolicited expert outreach.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
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Hype gap+5
Incentives
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Confidence50
investConfirmed8 publishers

OpenAI says it disrupted Moonshot-linked users trying to extract its models' protected reasoning

OpenAI says it disrupted a large-scale effort by users tied to Moonshot AI to extract protected reasoning from its models. That makes three US accusers of the lab behind Kimi K3, and the published evidence so far covers attempted extraction only.

Perspective Coverage

8 publishers
Builder
Builder 33%
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Operator 35%
Investor
Investor 32%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+35
Incentives65
Confidence60
leadershipConfirmed3 publishers

Bill Gates wants AI safeguards and monitoring made a legal requirement

Bill Gates told NBC that AI misuse could cause a billion deaths and that safeguards and monitoring must be required by law. The White House science chief's reply to such calls, that worried developers can just stop, suggests a federal statute is further off than the pressure implies.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 46%
Investor
Investor 27%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
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Hype gap
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Incentives45
Confidence65
leadershipOne report1 publisher

The White House hands the pause decision back to the labs asking for rules

Michael Kratsios told Fox News Sunday that a lab afraid of its own model can simply stop shipping it, weeks after Anthropic's Dario Amodei asked for safety monitors and firmer federal rules. That leaves the cost of a pause with the company that takes it.

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives78
Confidence58
productOne report1 publisher

ESA holds €450mn of its €760mn Nyx contract as options it can still decline

About €20bn and 51 deals were announced at the Paris space summit, on top of an ESA budget member states had already approved. The dates suppliers will be judged against came from Macron's address, not from a contract.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption45
Hype gap+34
Incentives68
Confidence56
buildOne report1 publisher

Zuckerberg tells G20 ministers Meta cannot hire the tradespeople its own buildout needs

Two of the largest buyers of compute told G20 technology ministers that their binding limit is skilled labour and megawatts, and Musk dated the power shortfall to next year. Both are claims about their own builds.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+45
Incentives88
Confidence48
investOne report1 publisher

Washington pitches Carolina Principles to G20, urging no new AI rules or bodies

Washington wants the G20 to reserve new AI regulation for novel considerations and to create no new oversight body, which lands as Europe enforces rules already on the books and Canada promises to argue back.

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption15
Hype gap+20
Incentives72
Confidence42