Duffield Engineering investment in CNF to expand research and training | Cornell Chronicle
A $9.5 million investment will enhance CNF's capabilities in semiconductor research, education, and workforce training as it approaches its 50th anniversary.
UK lab gets funding to drive foundational AI research | Computer Weekly
The UK government is investing £40m over six years to establish a Fundamental AI Research Lab, offering researchers access to tens of millions of pounds in compute capacity and calling for ambitious proposals.
How User Interviews Can Be Accelerated with an AI-Powered Insights Platform
AI-powered research platforms address the infrastructure burden surrounding user research—recruitment, scheduling, transcription, and synthesis—rather than the interviews themselves, removing friction that causes teams to abandon research.
UKRI sets out strategy to make UK an AI leader by 2031 | Computer Weekly
UKRI's six-point AI strategy aims to make the UK a 2031 global leader in explainable, agentic, edge, and sustainable AI through research and workforce growth.
UK could lose generation of scientists' with cuts to projects and research facilities
Significant UK physics funding cuts and cancelled projects risk losing a generation of early-career researchers to overseas positions, undermining fundamental science.
Ophthalmology Grant Supports Unrestricted Research, Innovation - News Center
Department of Ophthalmology received an increased Research to Prevent Blindness unrestricted grant of $150,000 to support priority research initiatives, collaborations, and innovative vision science projects.
Longer grant cycles would boost research in Africa
Two- to three-year research funding cycles in Africa create high administrative burdens, impede resilience to shocks, and are inadequate for long-term, infrastructure-heavy projects.
Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery
Machines and the engineering systems that enable scientific discoveries deserve formal recognition alongside humans through existing awards or new prize categories.
Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures
Federal funding freezes at Harvard forced FlyBase layoffs and jeopardized model-organism databases, risking loss of curation expertise and setbacks to basic scientific research.