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Trump Team Plans Mass Firings at Key Agency for AI and Chips: Report

Almost 500 staff at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are expected to be laid off, including those running the $11 billion semiconductor research and development program funded under the Biden-era CHIPS Act.
The layoffs will also affect the US AI Safety Institute, which evaluates the security of emerging AI models.
Cuts to CHIPS staff may undermine the agency's ability to subsidize semiconductor fab construction and fund domestic R&D in the USA.
Probationary employees at NIST are reportedly 'bracing to be fired imminently,' according to Axios.

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Wired

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings

Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the safety-standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.

2 days ago·United States

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Fortune

AI safety advocates slam Trump administration's reported targeting of standards agency

The U.S.'s fledgling AI Safety Institute is reportedly about to be gutted by mass layoffs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

2 days ago·New York, United States

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The Register

Federal layoffs threaten to derail NIST's role in CHIPS Act

Reported layoffs suggest R&D functions may be hobbled, fab subsidies also at risk

Trump Team Plans Mass Firings at Key Agency for AI and Chips

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a lab housed under the Commerce Department, is preparing to fire as many as roughly 500 probationary staffers as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the federal government.

2 days ago·United States

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