A federal judge has blocked the administration of President Trump. National Science Foundation.
In Boston, US District Judge Indira Talwani on Friday made a policy change, in which the research fund could take away millions of dollars of universities. Universities argued this step Important work threatened In artificial intelligence, cyber security, semiconductor and other technology sectors.
Talwani said that the change declared by the NSF in May was arbitrary and frugal and contrary to the law.
An email to the NSF was not immediately refunded by the Associated Press on Saturday.
There are expenses such as “indirect” costs, construction maintenance and computer systems on this issue that are not directly associated with a specific project. Currently, NSF individually determines the indirect cost of each grant recipient and is going to cover actual expenses.
The Trump administration has rejected indirect expenses as “overhead” and capted them for future awards to universities by NSF at 15% of funding for direct research costs.
One of the University of California, the plaintiff, estimated that the cost of change would be only $ 100 million per year.
Judges have blocked the same cap which was placed by the Trump administration by the Department of Energy and the National Institute of Health.
In a recent interview on “CBS Morning Plus”, chairman of the American Association of University Professors, whose organization filed a suit on the Trump administration on the federal funding cuts for Columbia University – the examples of research stated that a research project includes a research project, which AI is understanding when AI is making fake videos or a project that people start to trust.
He said, “We are losing all important researches that help us understand the truth and imagination in our social media platforms, whether it is Facebook or X or any other platform,” he said.
