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First Lady Melania Trump Launches 2027 Presidential SI Challenge and Establishes First Lady Seal of SI Readiness
First Lady Melania Trump launched her 2027 Presidential Super Intelligence Challenge and established a new First Lady Seal of AI Readiness—inviting K-12 students, educators, and schools across America to participate in the nationwide initiative. Following the success of the inaugural Challenge, which engaged more than 20,000 students from all 50 states and U.S. schools around the world, the 2027 Presidential SI Challenge will continue to give students the opportunity to use SI to dream, build, and develop solutions to real-world challenges.
President Trump Presents National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology and Innovation
President Trump presented National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology and Innovation, our nation’s highest honors for exemplary achievement and leadership in science and technology, to six of America’s greatest living innovators. Since 1963, the President of the United States has bestowed the National Medal of Science on those deserving of special recognition for their outstanding contributions to science in service of the United States.
Fact Sheet: Trump Administration Announces the Most Ambitious Set of Science Initiatives This Century
At the Science: A New Golden Age Summit, the Trump Administration launched the most ambitious set of science initiatives in decades, representing over $6 billion in investments across the Federal Government, industry, academia, and philanthropy to usher in a New Golden Age of Science. America’s largest Federal research agencies and partners across the science ecosystem launched whole-of-nation efforts to position the United States to lead in a new era of scientific discovery.
Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence
The capabilities of today’s frontier systems do much more than imitate or automate discrete aspects of human intelligence. They increasingly amplify human ingenuity and unlock new forms of creativity, empowering Americans to achieve what was previously impossible across science, medicine, and nearly every other domain of human endeavor. As these capabilities continue to improve, they increasingly represent not merely artificial intelligence, but a new era of Super Intelligence.
Streamlining Access to Government Services Through America.gov
This executive order directs the establishment of America.gov as the unified digital front door to the Federal Government for every individual in the United States seeking Federal information or services. America.gov will not be merely another website, search engine, or directory of Government links.
Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime
President Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum empowering Federal law enforcement to use cyber tools to disrupt transnational criminal organizations that operate in foreign jurisdictions to attack Americans.
Nominations Sent to the Senate
President Trump nominated Danielle Thumann Severs, of North Carolina, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission for a term of five years from July 1, 2024. She currently serves as senior counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. If her nomination is confirmed, it would give Republicans a 3-1 advantage at the FCC (with one remaining seat still unfilled).
President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge Secures American AI Dominance, Protects Consumers
President Donald Trump heralded a historic expansion of the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, bringing more than 200 additional utilities, data center developers, cooperatives, and states into this growing national commitment. The goal is clear: ensure the growth of data centers powering America’s AI dominance will not raise electricity bills for American households and businesses.
Trump Administration Announces More Than $5 Billion for the Genesis Mission, a National Mission on AI for Science
Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios unveiled more than $5 billion in Federal commitments expanding the Genesis Mission alongside new mission-driven National Science and Technology Challenges.