Brief items - news roundup, AI, international issues, good reading

Douglas Natelson (noreply@blogger.com)
Several items worth reading about as we head into a long weekend in the US.  Starting with news related to funding and other aspects of US government policy: US government taking equity stakes in some quantum information sciences companies while investing around $2B (seemingly from the Department of Commerce and the CHIPs Act resources.  (Non-paywall news story here ).  This raises a number of thorny issues. Some US funding agencies (NIH, NASA) are enacting restrictions ( Science article here ,