President Trump signed an order Tuesday directing his administration to invest $50 million in AI-driven pediatric cancer research.

Why it matters: The move is part of a broader embrace of artificial intelligence across federal agencies but comes as the administration is slashing biomedical research spending and pausing grants.

Driving the news: The order directs the presidentially appointed Make America Healthy Again Commission to work with the Office of Science and Technology Policy to harness data from a childhood cancer data initiative Trump established during his first term, OSTP Director Michael Kratsios said. • The data initiative's budget is being doubled by this investment. • "Leveraging this data infrastructure, researchers will deploy artificial intelligence to improve clin

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