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EPISODE · Jul 22, 2026 · 21 MIN
[News] Washington Wants to Fund Scientists, Not Universities. Here Is Why That Is a Fight Eighty Years in the Making.
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A new White House report proposes to fund individual scientists and artificial intelligence rather than universities, reviving an eighty-year-old question about who controls American science, alongside a $5 billion "AI for science" effort across fifteen agencies.
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