IBM CEO urges the Trump Administration to increase not cut federal AI R&D funding | TechCrunch

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- Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, thinks federal R&D funding for AI and related technologies should be increased
- In recent weeks, a key federal office for AI research, the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), has been hit by steep budget reductions
- The Trump administration is calling on Congress to slash over half of the NSF’s funding
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