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The Department of War’s recruiting investment bankers to rebuild American defense manufacturing. We can’t build missiles, fighter jets, batteries… We’re at war. There’s no time to wait and see if the bureaucracy’s going to catch up. “Deal Team Six” is going to fix this.

@Miles_Brundage If only they had a direct line to consumers ;)

From a competitive perspective, Codex getting better as an app in the past month was perfectly timed with Claude Code being broken all the time

If you think AI film can’t be art then explain this.

@DefenseAnalyses the real west

The West

Read my latest on how the Department of War’s using dealmaker occupied government to solve out defense industrial base’s problems: open.substack.com/pub/piratewire…

The Department of War’s recruiting investment bankers to rebuild American defense manufacturing. We can’t build missiles, fighter jets, batteries… We’re at war. There’s no time to wait and see if the bureaucracy’s going to catch up. “Deal Team Six” is going to fix this.

mda.mil : )

you don't see many websites like this anymore

The woke left is canceling tung tung tung sahur

"Data centers are draining our water" is the new "plastic straws are destroying the ocean." It's a hoax, and many people pushing it know it's not true. At AFPI (@A1policy) we wrote a piece breaking down the numbers: 1) Data centers use very little water > Somewhere between 0.2% and 0.5% of U.S. freshwater consumption > 15x less water than we lose each year to leaky pipes > The biggest data center of 2024 uses less water than 3 square miles of farmland (America has 1.3 million) 2) Local water impacts are small, too > In one of the country’s most “water stressed” counties, data centers are 0.12% of its water use (golf courses are 3.8%) 3) This hasn’t stopped lawmakers from fearmongering about data centers > 5 senators, including Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey, wrote a letter to the admin complaining about data center water use > Lawmakers have introduced legislation and called for data center moratoriums because of fake water use claims. Denver might enact one soon 4) Data centers are one of America’s greatest strengths > Huge local tax revenues > The AI data center boom has created tremendous economic growth > Wages in construction and the trades have skyrocketed (construction up >30% because of data centers) We end by suggesting some ways to accelerate the data center buildout, while protecting local communities' interests. Full piece here: americafirstpolicy.com/issues/the-dat…

Research security is equally serious. Linwei “Leon” Ding, a former Google software engineer, was recently found guilty of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets for stealing over 1,000 files of Google’s proprietary AI technology. justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…

Interviewing Scott Nolan, Founder of General Matter, and James Danly, Deputy Secretary of the DOE next week on reshoring our capacity to enrich uranium, and powering the next century.

@shaunmmaguire @ssankar @SenatorBanks super exciting

Hill and Valley is one of my favorite events of the year The fusion of… the Hill… and Silicon Valley I’m moderating a panel with two American heroes: @ssankar and @SenatorBanks

In addition to providing greater clarity regarding the Commission’s treatment of crypto assets, today's interpretation complements Congressional efforts to codify a comprehensive crypto market structure framework into statute. More details below. 👇

wowww the SEC just classified crypto assets into: DIGITAL COMMODITIES DIGITAL COLLECTIBLES DIGITAL TOOLS STABLECOINS DIGITAL SECURITIES. and explained what each category means. SEC digital commodities include: Aptos (APT); Avalanche (AVAX); Bitcoin (BTC); Bitcoin Cash (BCH); Cardano (ADA); Chainlink (LINK); Dogecoin (DOGE); Ether (ETH); Hedera (HBAR); Litecoin (LTC); Polkadot (DOT); Shiba Inu (SHIB); Solana (SOL); Stellar (XLM); Tezos (XTZ); and XRP (XRP) thedefiant.io/news/regulatio…

What did y’all think the Genesis Mission meant? vibes? papers? essays? We are funding a national scientific effort. Nearly $300M to kick things off and we’re just getting started! Advanced manufacturing ✅ Biotechnology ✅ Critical materials ✅ Nuclear energy ✅ Quantum ✅

@theammind @Heminator thank you patriot @SamCorcos 🫡

DOGE isn't dead. @Heminator talks to Treasury CIO Sam Corcos, who has "personal line of sight on $500 billion in provable fraud and improper payments" and says things that would normally take years are now getting done in days.

I doubt it The US has been the one pressuring the Dutch government to create export controls for EUV / DUV with FDPR / geopolitical incentives There may be some slight hesitation from the government, but if the US wanted ASML to sell to China, it's unlikely the Dutch would stop them

@ohlennart but those would have to come from ASML, no? so the Netherlands / the EU would probably have at least as big a say in this as the US

If I'm China I wouldn't ask for AI chips in any future negotiations. I'd ask for HBM and chipmaking equipment. We know their goal is domestic production. Without these controls, Huawei would probably be the second or third best AI chip company in the world.

@David_Kasten joe weisenthal is legitimately the goat of reporting Curiousmaxxing

One thing I admire about Joe Weisenthal: he just asks Qs and learns. And it helps me, too, to learn that even a very clued-in reporter in this space might overrate the current value of more training data vs. RL or algo improvements, vs. the consensus in the Bay Area!

the government could contract / create prizes for the burgeoning eval field (metr, redwood, palisade, etc.) to develop evals that can be ran in classified scenarios! the government will, most likely, never be able to create better evals than the AI industry itself - it needs to take advantage of the great work these orgs are doing and help fund their critical efforts / grow the ecosystem

@peterwildeford @hamandcheese I think that’s a pretty bad plan. There aren’t currently any known ways to safety-test models reliably, not even AI labs know how to do that. How would the government with much less AI talent have a magic solution.

OPENAI GOV AFFAIRS BLOG: "the US should establish a federal framework through legislation that requires frontier labs to test their systems using classified government capabilities"