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White House Hosts Golden Age of Science Summit in Washington

October 14, 2026 · The White House · 0:08:01

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What happened

The opening speaker said that in July of this year he presented a report to the president called, as he titled it, “Science, a new golden age,” which he described as a playbook for how the United States can revitalize its science ecosystem — supporting young American scientists, pursuing national scientific missions, and applying what speakers called super intelligence to scientific discovery. The summit in Washington, he said, was convened to bring together government, academia, the private sector and philanthropy to accelerate American science, according to the remarks.

Other speakers traced 250 years of American innovation, as they characterized it — electricity, the light bulb, the airplane, the atom, personal computers and the internet — and argued the country is again at an inflection point. One speaker said that with super intelligence and robots, “you can essentially invent anything and build anything,” and pointed to quantum computing, a return to the moon and a moon base, and nuclear power in space among the efforts underway, as the speakers described them. Another speaker credited President Trump, as he stated it, with clearing out top-down control so that science could be, in his words, a search for truth, and industry speakers described technology firms working as one team across, as they put it, every layer of the stack.

Why it matters

The summit is the administration’s public framing of its science and technology agenda — AI-driven discovery, space and nuclear ambitions presented as a single national project — and it records the claims the administration makes for that agenda at the moment it was announced.

Sources: The White House, “Golden Age of Science Summit”, Washington, 2026-10-14 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-10-14). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.