Washington, D.C., April 12, 2025 – Michael Kratsios, the newly appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), is at the forefront of shaping America’s technological future as tensions with China over AI innovation intensify. At 38, Kratsios, a Greek-American with roots in Volissos, Chios, and Kastoria, Greece, is the…
White House science advisor Arati Prabhakar expressed confidence in U.S. science and technology capacities during a talk on Wednesday about major issues the country must tackle. “Let me start with the purpose of science and technology and innovation, which is to open possibilities so that we can achieve our great aspirations,” said Prabhakar, who is…
China’s artificial intelligence research output is rising rapidly but remains relatively “decoupled” from US-led global collaboration networks, a report by the Nature Index has found. Six of the top 10 “rising institutions” in the field from 2019 to 2023 were in China, according to the latest AI index, compiled by part of the group which…