The federal government ends funding for an ambitious AI project

By Katia Riddle

Published October 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM EDT

The Trump administration has pledged to invest in artificial intelligence. Yet a promising program that uses AI to solve weather-related problems lost funding from the National Science Foundation.

Katia Riddle

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