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*New Lecture* Stanford @CS153Systems '26, Session 8 (Full Video) Energy Bottlenecks with @ScottNolan from @generalmatter 00:00 Energy Bottlenecks Intro 00:11 AI Factory Overview 02:55 Why Power Matters 03:56 From ChatGPT to Enterprise Demand 07:25 Meet Scott Nolan 09:03 Energy Is The Real Limit 11:16 Demand Growth Reality Check 13:17 Stranded Power Era 15:54 What Data Centers Need 16:59 Nuclear As Baseload Path 18:21 Fuel Cycle And Enrichment Gap 21:41 Bitcoin Mining As Rehearsal 25:03 Building Primitives Not Pivots 28:17 Nuclear Safety And Narrative 30:22 Calibrating the Moment 30:54 Pick Important Problems 32:14 General Matter Breakthrough 35:04 Building Team and Site 37:18 Government Support Reality 39:19 Jobs and AI Demand 42:37 Scaling Timelines and Space 46:16 Early SpaceX Lessons 50:25 Nuclear Perception and Europe 53:17 Supply Chain and Enrichment 56:56 Why US Lost Enrichment 59:25 Back to the Future Wrap

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Here's my update to the broader community about the ongoing incident investigation. I want to give you the rundown of the situation directly. A Vercel employee got compromised via the breach of an AI platform customer called Context.ai that he was using. The details are being fully investigated. Through a series of maneuvers that escalated from our colleague’s compromised Vercel Google Workspace account, the attacker got further access to Vercel environments. Vercel stores all customer environment variables fully encrypted at rest. We have numerous defense-in-depth mechanisms to protect core systems and customer data. We do have a capability however to designate environment variables as “non-sensitive”. Unfortunately, the attacker got further access through their enumeration. We believe the attacking group to be highly sophisticated and, I strongly suspect, significantly accelerated by AI. They moved with surprising velocity and in-depth understanding of Vercel. At the moment, we believe the number of customers with security impact to be quite limited. We’ve reached out with utmost priority to the ones we have concerns about. All of our focus right now is on investigation, communication to customers, enhancement of security measures, and sanitization of our environments. We’ve deployed extensive protection measures and monitoring. We’ve analyzed our supply chain, ensuring Next.js, Turbopack, and our many open source projects remain safe for our community. The recommendation for all Vercel customers is to follow the Security Bulletin closely (vercel.com/kb/bulletin/ve…). My advice to everyone is to follow the best practices of security response: secret rotation, monitoring access to your Vercel environments and linked services, and ensuring the proper use of the sensitive env variables feature. In response to this, and to aid in the improvement of all of our customers’ security postures, we’ve already rolled out new capabilities in the dashboard, including an overview page of environment variables, and a better user interface for sensitive env var creation and management. As always, I’m totally open to your feedback. We’re working with elite cybersecurity firms, industry peers, and law enforcement. We’ve reached out to Context to assist in understanding the full scale of the incident, in an effort to protect other organizations and the broader internet. I also want to thank the Google Mandiant team for their active engagement and assistance. It’s my mission to turn this attack into the most formidable security response imaginable. It’s always been a top priority for me. Vercel employs some of the most dedicated security researchers and security-minded engineers in the world. I commit to keeping you updated and rolling out extensive improvements and defenses so you, our customers and community, can have the peace of mind that Vercel always has your back.

I'm putting together an event in SF: The map of biotech regulation is being redrawn. On April 30 at @frontiertower in SF, founders and policy leaders from emerging biotech jurisdictions will share what’s actually changing on the ground — from Honduras to Montana to New Hampshire and beyond. We’ll talk deregulation, faster experimentation, new treatment pathways, and the growing map of biotech freedom. Speakers include: • @IanHuyett, @GraniteBio • Stephen Martin, @infinitacity • Mac Davis, @MinicircleDNA • @thetreygoff, Blueprint for America • @longevion, @CityOfViva Moderated by @Ryan_G_Lambert of Freedom Village NH + Granite Bio. If you care about the future of biotech, medicine, and regulatory reform, this is the room. luma.com/state-of-biote…

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The Sovereign Stack: Energy, Compute, and Sound Money as State Policy with Rep. Keith Ammon Representative Keith Ammon (@RepKeithAmmon) introduces his “Sovereign Stack” concept, arguing that true individual sovereignty depends on control over three key layers: energy, computing, and sound money. He highlights New Hampshire’s push for policies like decentralized energy, advanced nuclear, Bitcoin reserves, and legal frameworks for DAOs to strengthen independence and innovation. Ammon emphasizes the growing importance of computational power and AI, warning that states that control compute will shape the future, while advocating for “computational freedom” and pro-tech legislation. He concludes that advancing liberty through these systems will drive prosperity, framing sovereignty as something actively built through policy and technology.