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Science as industrial policy

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Welcome to December 13, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Discovery is not only automated but reorganized: new institutional forms outside the university, funded as national infrastructure and justified by productivity targets.

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2026-10-09: The science program relies on industry amid shrinking federal research

2026-10-09: The White House announces science commitments

2026-10-05: The US and allies endorse an autonomous-science vision

2026-09-20: DOE offers funding for fault-tolerant quantum computing

2026-08-29: A president announces a nuclear-powered Mars ship and a space academy

2026-08-23: A presidential memorandum orders a thousand launches a year by 2030

2026-08-23: Entangled photons are beamed thirteen miles through open air

2026-08-08: A fab will host a particle accelerator as a shared lithography light source

2026-08-03: A country approves eight reactors worth over $25 billion

2026-07-31: A chief executive projects measurable quantum revenue by 2028

2026-07-24: A vice premier drives a crash program for homegrown chips

2026-07-23: Decades-old conjectures fall in a day and become a national line item

2026-07-22: High-NA EUV scanners enter high-volume manufacturing

2026-07-22: A $200 billion research budget is redirected toward individuals and AI

2026-07-18: A country will force datacenters to generate the power they consume

2026-07-17: A country makes its first wafers on ninety-nanometer technology

2026-07-16: A foundry's US buildout reaches ten fabs and $265 billion

2026-07-14: A foundry's revenue jumps 68% on sold-out leading-edge capacity

2026-07-11: A government converts $9B in grants into a 10% stake in a chipmaker

2026-07-11: A $145B agreement would deploy 3 GW of factory-built microreactors

2026-07-04: Microreactors go critical on a presidential deadline

2026-06-29: A country answers the memory crunch with a $585B semiconductor megacomplex

2026-06-28: A company pledges $9B over five years toward a 2029 quantum machine

2026-06-25: Japan unveils a $2.3 trillion plan to quintuple chip output

2026-06-24: Two executive orders target a useful quantum computer by 2028

2026-06-14: A country cuts 12,200 degree programs and adds 10,200 in embodied AI

2026-06-13: Europe opens its largest-ever power-semiconductor investment

2026-06-09: China plans a $295B datacenter network on 80% domestic hardware

2026-06-01: Cold War warhead plutonium is handed to private reactor firms

2026-05-26: The US backs its first pure-play quantum chip foundry

2026-05-18: The President says the government should have asked for more of Intel

2026-04-29: Canada announces its first sovereign wealth fund

2026-03-29: Microreactors could reach criticality by Independence Day

2026-03-24: A consortium plans over a trillion for energy, minerals and chips

2026-03-19: A state uses robot sports to compress prototype to product

2026-03-18: The DOE aims $293M at twenty national challenges

2026-02-26: Bavaria puts €400M into a stellarator

2026-02-03: Apple pays $57 more per phone as AI outbids it for memory

2026-01-31: CERN takes $1B from private donors for a Higgs factory

2026-01-26: The White House takes a 10% stake in a rare earth miner

2026-01-13: A Taiwan trade deal would buy five more Arizona fabs

2026-01-09: Micron breaks ground on a $100B megafab

2026-01-09: A private telescope larger than Hubble is funded

2026-01-06: The DOE puts $2.7B into domestic enrichment

2026-01-06: Intel ships its first 18A consumer chips from US fabs

2026-01-06: Congress funds lunar fission inside a $24.4B NASA budget

2026-01-05: The Department of War evaluates YC SAFEs

2026-01-04: Japan quadruples its AI chip budget

2025-12-29: Frontier research collapses to three cities

2025-12-19: The Genesis Mission could unlock 3,600 petabytes of scientific data

2025-12-18: Hassabis names the root-node problems DeepMind is targeting

2025-12-16: STOC 2026 gets automated peer review within 24 hours

2025-12-16: The US launches a Tech Force to recruit 1,000 technologists

2025-12-13: DOE commits $320M to a national discovery platform

2025-12-13: NSF launches Tech Labs as a new research institution

2025-12-13: UATX builds an engineering lab next to SpaceX

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