US Research Funding Freeze: Innovation Engine Stalls

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, abruptly canceling over 1,000 research projects and halting roughly $739 million in research funds. This has caused widespread chaos in academia, forcing labs to shut down, jeopardizing graduate students' degrees, and leaving early-career faculty without grants. The article argues that this threatens the future of the US tech industry, as many tech giants' technologies originated from publicly funded university research. It calls for tech companies to reciprocate and collectively protect the research ecosystem to prevent a talent shortage.