Artificial Intelligence
White House launches Genesis Mission to spur AI with federal assets
The Genesis Mission initiates a new artificial intelligence experimentation platform, linking agencies with federal data to spearhead advanced AI use cases and evaluate “experimental outcomes.”
Emerging Tech
Energy allocates $625M for national labs’ quantum research
Funding for research centers at five national laboratories is intended to support U.S. advancements in quantum information sciences and technology.
Emerging Tech
NVIDIA announces new quantum-integrated computing architecture
Company CEO Jensen Huang unveiled NVIDIA’s new hybrid computing architecture, NVQLink, on Tuesday, as well as the deployment of two new supercomputers at Argonne National Laboratory.
Emerging Tech
Energy announces roadmap for fusion science and technology
Energy Secretary Chris Wright discussed the plan to rapidly scale the U.S. fusion energy generation, highlighting the important role that the nation’s network of national labs will play in the effort.
Emerging Tech
Oak Ridge announces new quantum computing installation
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Quantum Brilliance are marrying quantum and classical systems to advance research in multiple domains.
Artificial Intelligence
How a national lab is using data and AI to try to speed up permitting
The work to get better environmental permitting data began under Biden and is continuing under Trump.
Policy
California lawmakers urge Trump admin to halt cuts to national labs
Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, along with Rep. Zoe Lofgren, said budget cuts to national laboratories have already led to layoffs, with some other labs warning that “they may need to start laying off thousands of scientists and technical staff in the near future.”
Artificial Intelligence
AWS and Idaho National Lab to collaborate on AI for nuclear energy
Software from Amazon Web Services will help the Idaho National Laboratory research and scale modular nuclear reactors to help power data centers.
Artificial Intelligence
Energy announces first 4 AI data center sites on federal lands
Four federal facilities have been selected to host new artificial intelligence-ready data centers, with help from private sector partners.
Acquisition
Idaho National Lab teams up with Microsoft to improve nuclear permitting reviews
The collaboration will enable the lab to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud and artificial AI tech to “streamline and accelerate the review process” for required reports from reactor developers.
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic’s Claude for Enterprise expands deployment at Lawrence Livermore
Lawrence Livermore National Lab will be able to use Claude to wrangle large datasets, generate scientific hypotheses and more.
Artificial Intelligence
Public-private partnerships need more ‘efficiency,’ Energy official says
The agency’s national labs can offer high performance computing capabilities for artificial intelligence innovation, several leaders noted, but it requires an expedited negotiation process.
Modernization
Sandia labs to undertake $5B construction effort over next decade
Sandia National Laboratories is growing its physical infrastructure to help advance its core national security research efforts, notably radiation environment testing and power source capabilities.
Emerging Tech
National Labs have seen mixed impacts from Trump spending freeze
During a House hearing, four directors of different U.S. national laboratories offered insight into how federal funding interruptions have shaped their work.
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI brings its large language models to Energy’s national labs
As OpenAI expands access to its large language models to all national labs, scientists at nationals labs anticipate workloads that usually take decades to be reduced to “two or three” years.
Emerging Tech
El Capitan supercomputer is ready to handle nuclear stockpile and AI workflows
The fastest supercomputer in the world, housed at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, was dedicated to U.S. national security missions on Thursday, supported by novel hybrid processing chips.
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Lawrence Livermore’s El Capitan supercomputer is officially fastest in the world
El Capitan’s data processing abilities represent a major advancement in scientific research, particularly for managing the nuclear stockpile.
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory bring AI to quantum chemistry research
An updated version of Microsoft’s Azure Quantum Elements that combines artificial intelligence and chemistry-specific software tools will be available on Github.
Artificial Intelligence
IBM, NASA and Oak Ridge develop a new AI foundation model for weather
The foundation artificial intelligence model will handle specific meteorological data to offer improved accuracy in weather patterns and forecasting.
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