Chattanooga's new courthouse. The style is called "Greco-Deco". We're taking this worldwide. We're taking this to Mars. This is the answer.

BIG NEWS out of the Senate's early version of the NDAA -- the bill authorizes a new, 4-star combatant command for robotic and autonomous weapon systems insidedefense.com/daily-news…

We just published a deep dive on why Unitree is going to dominate global robotics. Timing could not be better. (2/2) newsletter.semianalysis.com/…

Ahead of humanity’s return to the lunar surface, Axiom Space and Prada unveiled the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG) designed to be worn by astronauts inside the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit. The LCVG collaboration draws on Prada's expertise in design, patternmaking, and advanced materials, resulting in a next-generation garment developed through advanced 3D modeling techniques that maintain cooling and ventilation while enhancing comfort during up to eight-hour spacewalks. Discover more: tinyurl.com/mruj7rvy #Prada #AxEMU @axiom_space

Apex Space has closed a $200M funding round raised at a $2.3B valuation, the company announced on Friday. payloadspace.com/apex-raises…

Before the week ends, let's acknowledge one of the most INSANE week ever for open AI, with 25 notable open-weight drops across every modality: 🧠 LLMs → NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: 550B hybrid Mamba-MoE, only 55B active, 1M context, MMLU 89.1. NVFP4 variant claims ~5x throughput on Blackwell. First openly-weighted 550B hybrid Mamba-Transformer, closing the gap with frontier closed models. → Google Gemma 4 12B: fully open dense any-to-any (text/image/audio/video), 256k context, encoder-free, 140 languages, AIME 2026 at 77.5. Shipped with a 23-checkpoint QAT wave (mobile ONNX MLX). Most deployable model of the week. → StepFun Step-3.7-Flash: 198B sparse MoE VLM, ~11B active, SWE-Bench PRO 56.3. Apache 2.0. → Liquid AI LFM2.5-8B-A1B: edge MoE, just 1.5B active, 128k ctx, MATH500 88.8, MLX-ready. Best on-device option this week. → JetBrains Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking: their first open MoE, near-Qwen3-14B coding at 2.5B active. Apache 2.0. 🎨 Image gen (the surprise of the week) → Ideogram 4: their FIRST-EVER open weights. 9.3B flow-matching DiT trained from scratch. #2 overall behind GPT Image 2, top open-weight model on Design Arena LMArena. Strongest open checkpoint for text-rich images, full stop. It has taste. Still can't believe this is open weights. 🔊 Audio & Speech (a breakout week for open TTS, 4 labs shipped) → Boson Higgs Audio v3 4B: 102 languages, 21 emotions, singing/whispering/shouting, sub-second TTFA. → RedNote dots.tts: the only fully continuous (no codec) open TTS pipeline, Apache 2.0. → Google Magenta RealTime 2: real-time music gen, <200ms latency, text audio MIDI. multimodalart ported it to PyTorch within hours with live ZeroGPU demos. → NVIDIA Nemotron-3.5 ASR: 600M streaming, 17x more concurrent streams vs Parakeet RNNT 1.1B. 👁️ Vision & VLMs → PaddleOCR-VL-1.6: SOTA document parsing at 1B params, Apache 2.0. → Baidu NAVA: 6.3B joint audio-video gen, best-in-class A/V sync, Apache 2.0. 🎬 Video, 3D & World Models → NVIDIA Cosmos3-Super: 64B omnimodal world model coupling action trajectories with video audio gen, for Physical AI. → JD JoyAI-Echo: up to 5-min multi-shot text-to-video on LTX-2.3. → ByteDance Bernini-R VAST TripoSplat (single-image-to-3D Gaussian splats, MIT).

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Some of my favorite moments from @reindsummit Winning is a Choice! 🇺🇸🥂

Set is ready @ElonMusk We built it 25min from downtown Austin and can shoot anytime in the next 7 days on 1h notice. Humanity is on the verge of becoming a multi-planet species and spacefaring civilization. My goal with this interview is to help people viscerally feel what that future is going to look like and get everyone excited to help build it.

250 Years of defending the Republic. 🇺🇸

We have raised $200M at ACS to scale Bullfrog. The drone threat is moving faster than expensive, clunky air defense systems which weren't built to stop it. Our thesis: take inexpensive weapons in stock, make them incredibly more precise, and scale globally, rapidly

Fifteen years ago, the most valuable companies in the world were worth $300b to $400b . Today, several are worth $4t to $5t . The distance between planting a seed of an idea and building something truly legendary has grown by more than 10x. There is no reason to think the trajectory will slow. Meanwhile, the average human lifespan has barely moved. We have roughly the same number of moments, chapters, and pages as our predecessors did. To build something legendary, we now have to cover more than 10x the distance in that same fixed time, and in the next 15 years, we might have to cover an additional 10x the distance. If the game has gotten harder, the question is not how to work more hours. The question is which moments, chapters, and books are worth writing at all. Every choice to work on one thing is a choice not to work on something else. The opportunity cost of our attention has never been higher.

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him. His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang. Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on. That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was. Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose. And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot. So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out. Then he simply outlived everyone. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake. He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him. The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway. We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's. Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

Today, we're introducing Lassie and $47M in funding led by a16z. We're building AI that runs small businesses, starting with doctors' offices. Lassie is already trusted by 700 practices across the country, working autonomously to provide them with 30 hours of labor per month. To get here, we first had to leave Robinhood and Superhuman to work in offices ourselves. Here's how that went.

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Good morning. America is worth defending!