A new analysis of thousands of NSF and NIH grant applications, including confidential rejected submissions, reveals that generative AI is increasingly used in writing grant proposals, raising concerns…
Michael Kratsios's new report to the President proposes a sweeping reorganization of U.S. science funding that would redirect resources away from Research 1 universities and academic medical centers, …
The United States is changing how it allocates research funding, with a focus on investing in individual scientists over legacy institutions and increasing funding to AI research, according to the Dir…
The US National Science Foundation awarded $20 million to five new teams to build a national quantum research infrastructure, expanding its National Quantum Virtual Laboratory program. The projects fo…
Cambium AI launches an open-source research orchestration platform that turns one researcher into a team of AI agents while enforcing human checkpoints at eight critical gates. The system, built as a …
Dan Reed's blog post warns that AI is consuming agency budgets, citing an early ChatGPT experiment that wrote NSF summaries as sonnets and haiku, and now AI tools are driving up costs alongside quantu…
The Open-Source Ecosystem Canvas, adapted from the Business Model Canvas, helps open-source projects identify distinct value propositions for contributors, users, and funders. Stdlib's analysis reveal…
AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have historically relied on to welcome newcomers, according to interviews and observations by the stdlib team during NSF's POSE progra…
The DARPA-NSF-CAISI AI Forge Program has launched its next phase, releasing a report on critical AI challenges for national security and a Request for Information (RFI) targeting U.S. universities. Th…