"Genesis Mission" to boost AI research (www.axios.com)

President Trump signed an executive order creating the “Genesis Mission,” a federal push to accelerate AI research and development by increasing government-industry-academia data sharing and building AI tools for scientists and engineers. The order directs the Department of Energy to build an AI-enabled platform and convene a portfolio of scientific and engineering challenges—initially focused on energy and national security but extendable to areas like drug discovery—while other agencies can run their own problem sets. Administration officials framed the effort as a large-scale mobilization of federal science resources (they likened it to Apollo) and emphasized a deregulatory stance intended to keep government from blocking private innovation; no cost estimates were released. Technically, Genesis will fund AI capabilities to automate experiments, accelerate simulations, design workflows, and produce predictive models across domains from protein folding to fusion plasma dynamics. OSTP director Michael Kratsios and Energy Secretary Chris Wright say the program will shorten discovery timelines “from years to days or hours,” and help address rising electricity costs linked to large AI data centers by improving grid efficiency and bringing more energy online. The initiative already includes partnerships with firms such as Nvidia and Dell and will lean on national labs for compute and scientific expertise—signaling major new public-private compute collaborations with broad implications for AI-driven science and energy policy.