Newsweek op-ed: US should fund hospitals and universities in federated AI learning
Saul_Loveman · x · 2026-11-12
A Newsweek opinion piece argues that US public agencies should fund projects letting hospitals and universities pool compute and learn from each other's data via federated learning while retaining control of their data. Citing Stanford's 2026 AI Index — companies produced over 90% of notable advanced AI models tracked for 2025 — the author contends universities and hospitals bring different strengths (knowing which questions matter in labs and wards, testing models outside development settings), and September's NSF funding announcement is a timely opening to widen their access to model-building tools.
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