Jose Andres is a Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability who studies ecological and conservation genomics/environmental DNA.  He comments on the Trump administration's team-up with Colossal Biosciences, a private company, to preserve cells, tissue and DNA from threatened and endangered species. 

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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The Trump administration is discussing oversight on artificial intelligence models before they are made publicly available. The proposal is a departure from their long noninterventionist approach to AI. 

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President Trump’s new executive order would provide the government with an early look at powerful new AI models. 

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A federal judge in Virginia has temporarily jammed the Trump administration’s plans to payout of its Anti-Weaponization Fund until at least June 12; plaintiffs are alleging, among other things, that the fund violates theFirst Amendment, a claim we can expect the judge to take seriously given that the language of the fund specifically refers to Democrats, say Cornell Law School professor G.S. Hans. 

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Cathy Creighton, director of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab, says Secretary Chavez-DeRemer spent her time in the labor department dismantling protections around the American workforce. 

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Art Wheaton is an expert on transportation industries and labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He says government bailouts like this are not as rare as people think.

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Despite some vocal opposition from Congress to the president’s ordered strikes on Iran, there is little reason to expect Congress will act in checking the president’s authority in this case says Cornell University professor David Bateman.

Law and Policy

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Christopher Anderson, a professor of operations, technology and information management,  and an expert in the hospitality and airline industries, says European carriers have already begun cutting flights, grounding aircraft and warning of weaker reservations/bookings as the industry tries to balance higher costs against consumer demand. 

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Bryn Rosenfeld, a professor of government at Cornell University who studies post-communist politics and public opinion, says Hungary’s turn against the European Union may say less about its voters — and more about the political strategy of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

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Eswar Prasad, a senior professor of international trade policy at Cornell University, says the ruling is still unlikely to slow the administration’s broader push to deploy tariffs across economic and geopolitical fronts.

Economics and Business

Law, Government & Public Policy

Foreign Policy

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