Trump’s new $5B Genesis Mission pushes AI to the center of U.S. science policy
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-07-24
The Verge reports that the Trump administration has launched the first Genesis Mission grants, steering $5 billion into hundreds of AI-driven science projects. The White House is presenting the effort as a program “comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project.”
At the same time, Trump’s science adviser Michael Kratsios — who has no science background — was on Capitol Hill pitching a broader vision of a “New Golden Age” for American science. That agenda emphasizes AI, robotics, and nuclear energy, while explicitly deemphasizing life sciences.
The piece frames both moves as part of a larger attempt to reshape U.S. science policy around tech-bro style priorities, with AI at the center.
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