Schmidt Sciences’ new AI Agents Evolving Communication and Coordination pilot program works toward advancing foundational research on multi-agent communication and coordination, and building an open-s...

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The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

NIH appears to be preparing to prohibit the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies

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Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

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