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At the G20 Innovation Ministerial, U.S. officials tout a united AI leadership, but a behind‑the‑scenes clash between OSTP and the Commerce Department over policy direction—and messaging on data centers—exposes internal tensions as Washington weighs how aggressively to regulate AI and whether to create a new regulatory body, all while insisting the team is one.
NASA plans to launch Space Reactor 1 (SR-1) Freedom for a Mars mission by 2028 to demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion, with Lunar Reactor 1 aiming to power future lunar operations, but the effort faces near-term bottlenecks—HALEU fuel availability, supply-chain constraints for reactor components, a small nuclear-space workforce, and limited ground-testing sites—and long-term risks of policy shifts after the current administration. Experts warn that success will require multiyear funding and a clear SR‑2/3/4 roadmap, plus stronger cross‑agency collaboration (DOE, NASA, OSTP) and alignment with other programs like the Army’s Janus microreactor efforts to avoid a repeat of past program cancellations.
Ars Technica analyzes the White House OSTP report Science: A New Golden Age, which argues for streamlined grants, looser peer review, and closer ties between science and industry to accelerate science and AI innovation, but critics say the proposal is incoherent, ignores prior funding cuts, overstates its premises, and offers few clear mechanisms to move basic research into commercial advances.