Notable win
Over $6 billion pledged for science
At an Oct. 8 summit the White House announced more than $6 billion in commitments for science, including $2.4 billion in AI tools and compute credits from 11 companies and a $215 million quantum competition.
Why you should care
Research is how the next factory, drug or chip gets invented. Most of this is private pledges and computing credits, not new federal spending, and the fact sheet does not say which pledges are new, so treat it as a direction and not yet a result.
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