9/10/25: “The Axios Show” exclusive: Lutnick says U.S. should take a chunk of universities’ patent revenue (Axios Interview) After taking a stake in Intel and a cut of Nvidia’s chip sales in China, the U.S. government may next target a share of the money generated by patents developed at major universities using federal funding, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells Mike Allen in the premiere episode of “The Axios Show.”… The debut episode, featuring our conversation with Lutnick in his Commerce Department office, will be out later this week. https://www.axios.com/2025/09/10/howard-lutnick-university-patents-research
9/10/25: Scientists take on Trump: these researchers are fighting back (Nature) Nature talked to several people who are leading the fight to reinstate funding, retain knowledge and protect institutions such as the NIH and the US National Science Foundation (NSF), two of the largest sources of public funding for basic research in the world. “We’ll have nothing left at the NIH if people don’t speak out about this,” says one staff member at the agency, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02811-4
9/9/25: NIH Launches Initiative to Modernize and Strengthen Biosafety Oversight (NIH Statement) https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/nih-director/statements/nih-launches-initiative-modernize-strengthen-biosafety-oversight
9/9/25: Pentagon to officially implement CMMC requirements in contracts by Nov. 10 (Defense Scoop) The amendment to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement marks the near end of a years-long effort to enforce CMMC 2.0 cybersecurity standards for defense contractors. https://defensescoop.com/2025/09/09/cmmc-dfars-final-rule-amendment/
See also: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/10/2025-17359/defense-federal-acquisition-regulation-supplement-assessing-contractor-implementation-of
9/9/25: White House seeks stopgap bill through Jan. 31 to avoid government shutdown (Federal News Network) The Trump administration is calling on Congress to pass a four-month stopgap spending bill, in order to avoid a government shutdown, according to congressional appropriators. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/09/white-house-seeks-stopgap-bill-through-jan-31-to-avoid-government-shutdown/
See also: Democrats embrace government shutdowns in Trump 2.0 (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/09/10/democrats-government-shutdown-trump-schumer
9/9/25: AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now (Nature) The current information ecosystem is dominated by ‘answer engines’ — AI chatbots that synthesize and deliver information directly, with users trusting the answers now more than ever. As a researcher in metascience and psychology, I see this transition as the most important change in knowledge discovery in a generation. Although these tools can answer questions faster and often more accurately than search engines can, this efficiency has a price. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02810-5
9/9/25: Big Ten university faculties push for defense compact against Trump (The Washington Post) The proposed NATO-like alliance for the 18 schools would allow them to share resources in case the president targets one of their members. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/24/big-10-universities-alliance-trump-attacks/
9/9/25: Draft bill from Ted Cruz would establish a federal AI sandbox in OSTP (NextGov) The federal regulatory artificial intelligence sandbox program would be set up within the Office of Science and Technology Policy, offering waivers from existing rules. https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/09/draft-bill-ted-cruz-would-establish-federal-ai-sandbox-ostp/407990/
9/5/25: What Has the Trump Administration Gotten From Law Firms and Universities? (New York Times) President Trump has used the full force of the federal government to push for transactional agreements. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/06/us/trump-deals-law-firms-universities-concessions.html
