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Artificial intelligence is transforming grant writing. A new wave of AI tools, known as agents, can now generate a research grant application, review it and submit it. AI agents are large language models (LLMs) equipped with tools that let them search the web, read documents, write and execute code, and call external services, for example….
Researchers serving on the National Science Board, which advises the US National Science Foundation, received a brief email on Friday telling them that they had been dismissed.Credit: Briscoe Savoy for Nature All 22 members of the advisory board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were…
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