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NVIDIA’s R&D expense more than doubled in two years. Interim CEO Colette Kress inherits that budget as the customers buying its chips borrow heavily.

NVIDIA says GR00T 2 reached 95% success on 50 selected robot tasks after five demonstrations each; lab tasks ranged from 10% to 65% before teleoperation.

Google’s four-course AI for Healthcare Professionals Certificate covers patient communication, admin work and vibe coding, with checks on AI output.

Carnyx Therapeutics plans a fall 2027 IND for CNYX-005, an oral small molecule that added 1.5 to 2 hours of mostly NREM sleep in aged rats.

Edison Scientific explains how Kosmos cites its sources and where its 75% IND-time and $99 million figures come from as it deploys across Pfizer R&D.

NIH proposes risk-based safety monitoring for all its clinical research, including observational studies. Public comments close Jan. 6, 2027.

After $8.5 million for 28 projects, DOE’s INFUSE fusion voucher program opens to lab consortia and pilot-plant design reviews. Applications close Dec. 13.

Agilent closed its $240 million Proscia acquisition on Nov. 4, taking ownership of the Concentriq digital pathology software it had distributed since 2022.

RLWRLD, developer of the RLDX-1 foundation model for five-fingered robot hands, named former IBM Consulting Korea managing partner Min Jung Kim as COO.

Anthropic spent nearly $28 billion on R&D from 2024 through September 2026. Its amended IPO filing says safety measures could slow it relative to rivals.

Palantir revenue rose 96% in Q3 as Alex Karp claimed a “moral imperative” to dominate AI. Anthropic spent about $9.5 billion on R&D, 43 times as much.

SpaceX is in talks to buy EchoStar’s Boost Mobile or use its leased network, the Washington Post reported, as it adds tower spectrum to Starlink satellites.

Anthropic spent about $9.5 billion on R&D in Q3, more than Microsoft, per its amended IPO filing. Four large companies that report R&D spent more.

NIH made 13,686 new awards in fiscal 2026, up 21% from 2025, while total grants fell as annual payments on existing projects declined.

DOE to fund only multi-university teams in fiscal 2027 for basic accelerator research, ending single-PI awards, as it picks 14 projects for $15 million.

An Annals of Internal Medicine analysis found 87.5% of organizational comments opposed OMB’s grant rule, with research groups opposed at about 93%.

A global study puts 2,315 of 9,347 data centers where water demand exceeds supply. Few U.S. states require data centers to report their water use.

NSF funded 17 near-market VINES wireless projects, about $76 million against a $33 million target, while its basic research track came in under target.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) said Oct. 8 they will collaborate on metascience, the use of scientific methods to study how research is funded and conducted. The agencies said they will explore cooperation, including on data analysis and coordinated experiments. The UKRI has already trialed new ways of reviewing…

The top two innovation hubs in the world are in Asia, according to a recent report from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Leading the list of the top 100 innovation clusters is the greater Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou area, with Huawei being the commercial anchor there. In the second slot is Tokyo-Yokohama, which is home to…

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories will lead COMPASS, a new program with funding from the DOE’s Office of Technology Commercialization that aims to facilitate the launch of startups based on national lab technologies. The program, which is short for Commercialization Pathways for Accelerating Scientific Solutions, has received 8.4 million in funding over three years from the…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) rescinded a rule that prohibited the use of “criteria or methods of administration which have the effect of subjecting individuals to discrimination because of their race, color or national origin.”  In the rule change, the NSF removed the words “or effect” from a rule that prohibited aid recipients from making selections of sites or locations of facilities “with…

One year after nearly 500 National Institutes of Health (NIH) employees signed a letter warning that political interference was threatening the agency’s mission, the authors of a new report say the situation has only gotten worse.  “The chaos of 2025 has been replaced with coordinated, systematic, institutionalized destruction in 2026,” the Bethesda Declaration: One Year…

 An incredible era has begun as neurosurgical devices, robotics and connectivity come together to expand access to life-saving stroke care. The FDA approved the first clot-busting stroke drug in 1996 and only recently approved the second. In those three decades, medtech developers have created first-of-their-kind thrombectomy devices for faster and safer clot removal. But…

The House Appropriations Committee has approved the Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. The bill provides a total discretionary allocation of $189.3 billion, which is 3% below the FY 2026 level. While the bill includes several increases to medical research, it also codifies some significant reductions and…