Trump Unveils $6 Billion US Science and Technology Push

The Trump administration has unveiled more than $6 billion in science and technology initiatives at a White House summit on Thursday.
The ‘Science: A New Golden Age’ summit brought together federal agencies, tech companies, universities and philanthropies. The focus is artificial intelligence, quantum computing, nuclear-powered space exploration and biomedical science.
Eleven industry partners will contribute $2.4 billion in computing resources and technology support for the Genesis Mission. The mission aims to use advanced AI to speed up scientific discoveries.
Nvidia committed $1 billion, AMD $500 million and OpenAI $200 million. Anthropic and Google pledged $150 million each.
A separate $1 billion investment with universities, industry and the state of Georgia will expand computing infrastructure and workforce training. Fourteen universities across 10 states will join a regional computing consortium.
White House science adviser Michael Kratsios called it the most transformative day for American science since the research ecosystem was reshaped after World War II.
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