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Policy2026-07-25 · source-backed
What started as a DOE program under a November 2025 executive order is now a whole-of-government initiative spanning 15+ federal agencies, 340+ institutions, a $293.76M grants program, and over $500M in private consortium contributions. DOE named the first 278 funded projects; the largest single award is $60M for Prometheus, a three-year effort using AI to design, license, manufacture and operate nuclear reactors. Challenge areas span health care, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing and affordability. If you do anything adjacent to scientific computing, 278 funded projects is a lot of new procurement surface.
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DeepMind's commitment is denominated in tokens and cloud credits rather than cash, an in-kind structure that keeps the spend on Google infrastructure (DeepMind). OpenAI published its own commitment with the Department of Energy and the national labs the same week (OpenAI). Fed...
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About a dozen companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta met White House staff in a roughly 30-minute session closing two months of negotiation from Trump's June AI cybersecurity executive order. Administered by CAISI inside NIST, it asks developers of covered fron...
In a closed-door August 4 meeting with staff from Meta, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia and OpenAI, administration officials said open-weight models fall outside government testing under the new framework (Bloomberg/Reuters). Five Democratic senators responded the same day calling f...
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