Trump Team Plans Mass Firings at Key Agency for AI and Chips: Report

US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts

The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings

Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the safety-standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.

AI safety advocates slam Trump administration's reported targeting of standards agency

The U.S.'s fledgling AI Safety Institute is reportedly about to be gutted by mass layoffs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Federal layoffs threaten to derail NIST's role in CHIPS Act

Reported layoffs suggest R&D functions may be hobbled, fab subsidies also at risk

Trump Team Plans Mass Firings at Key Agency for AI and Chips

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a lab housed under the Commerce Department, is preparing to fire as many as roughly 500 probationary staffers as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the federal government.

The head of US AI safety has stepped down. What now?

Large-scale shifts at US government agencies that monitor AI development are underway. Where does that leave AI regulation?