USC computer science researcher Souti (Rini) Chattopadhyay has launched a five-year, $600,000 NSF CAREER Award project to study how humans and AI interact to enhance creativity and critical thinking, …
NASA joined the federal Genesis Mission on July 22, committing to apply artificial intelligence to more than 150 petabytes of scientific data from telescopes, satellites, orbiters, landers and aeronau…
Computer science enrollment in US colleges declined for the first time in roughly two decades during the 2025-26 academic year, coinciding with the rise of ChatGPT, according to new research by Jacob …
USC assistant professor Ibrahim Sabek has received a $627,250 NSF CAREER Award for a five-year project titled "Toward Quantum-Augmented Database Systems" that aims to integrate quantum computing into …
A joint analysis from SEMI, McKinsey & Co. and the National Science Foundation warns that the US semiconductor industry could fall 88,000 to 157,000 workers short of the 189,000 needed by 2030, as eng…
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…
A new report warns that a shortage of high-skilled workers could delay construction of billions of dollars in semiconductor plants across the US and constrain future chip production, with the deficit …
The National Science Foundation has canceled over 1,600 grants and terminated key staff under the Trump administration, undermining the US government's own AI dominance strategy. The cuts have slowed …
A rare bipartisan AI bill, the CREATE AI Act, is advancing through Congress to permanently establish the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) at the National Science Foundation. …
Agentic AI is transforming information from static documents into responsive entities that adapt to the reader's understanding process. This shift moves beyond search and generation to create a feedba…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, imposing a 50% stock tax on large AI companies to create a $7 trillion public fund. The fund would distribute annual paym…
The Trump administration is dismantling four of five arrays of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, removing over 900 deep-sea sensors that provide critical oceanographic data for national security. Th…
The U.S. National Science Foundation's NAIRR pilot program has driven over 700 research projects, with NVIDIA providing cloud-based DGX nodes and technical support. Researchers have used NVIDIA's AI i…
A survey of 4,000 Americans found that 39% store old electronics in drawers rather than recycling or reselling them, driven by data security anxiety and lack of knowledge about disposal options. The N…
A survey of 4,000 American consumers found that 39% store old electronics instead of recycling or reselling, driven by data security fears and lack of knowledge. Researchers from the National Science …
OpalAI has secured two NASA contracts to develop artificial intelligence systems for wildfire intelligence, leveraging its expertise in satellite and SAR imagery analysis. The company's technology, ba…
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…