{"id":705640,"date":"2026-07-22T17:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705640\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:49:19","slug":"trump-administration-says-15-agencies-will-get-5bn-in-ai-for-science-effort-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705640\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration says 15 agencies will get $5bn in \u2018AI for science\u2019 effort | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI<\/a>, \u2060the Trump administration<\/a> said in a statement on Wednesday. The agencies will use the funding to identify the root causes \u2060of chronic diseases, accelerate drug \u2060discovery and \u200bdevelop longer-lasting building materials, among other tasks, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

Scientists will have access to the Department of Energy\u2019s supercomputers, AI and specialized \u2060datasets, along with other components needed to run experiments using algorithms, said Michael Kratsios, the chief technology adviser to Donald Trump<\/a>, in an \u2060interview with Reuters.<\/p>\n

Fifteen federal agencies will be involved in the project, including the Departments \u200bof Health and Human Services, Energy, Transportation, \u200cDefense and Interior.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe White \u200cHouse is helping bring together all of the different agencies that work on different \u200cdomains to make them part of this larger effort on AI for science,\u201d Kratsios said.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration<\/a> also plans to overhaul how the US government funds federal research by supporting more individual scientists and the use of AI, rather than universities, according to a White House report released on Tuesday night, authored by Kratsios. This would \u200cgive the Trump administration more control over how the money is used.<\/p>\n

\u201cFederal support for science must be politically accountable,\u201d the report said. During his \u200bsecond term, Trump has tried to exert more control over how federal research dollars are allocated. Federal courts have pushed back, with an appeals panel saying in January the Trump administration cannot cut federal grant funding provided by the National Institutes of Health to \u2060universities engaged in scientific and medical research.<\/p>\n

AI models need data to identify \u200bpatterns, generate predictions and automate \u200bdecisions. The US government is \u200bhome to some of the largest datasets in the world, \u200bincluding records about chemicals, \u200ccritical minerals and \u200bpatient health.<\/p>\n

The $5bn \u200bresearch initiative is an opportunity to train AI models on that information and use those algorithms to answer scientific questions, Kratsios said.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft<\/a> will donate $40m in AI computing credits over three years to support the effort, according to a company statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, \u2060the Trump administration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}