Writing at corememory.com and host of the Core Memory podcast. 2X NYT best-seller. Filmmaker @HBO (Wild, Wild Space) @Netflix (Don't Die).

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This might be the coolest real estate business in the world. Some dudes took over a ranch in Texas and built a telescope farm. They're managing hundreds and hundreds of scopes for other people and offering super dark skies and fiber internet so that folks can take amazing pictures of space. Behold Starfront Observatories.
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And this is why we can't have nice things China doesn't even have to try
Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸
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Quick. Someone say it was China. But it's really well sourced, right? Well, there was a person familiar
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Took them a whole 24 hours to come up with this line. 😂 You'd think they would have led with this in all the leaks
.@ReedAlbergotti scoop: Concerns about specific China-linked accessed to Mythos part of the White House Anthropic move semafor.com/article/06/13/20…
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Anthropic has pushed AI forward dramatically over the past two years. It's currently the crown jewel of US AI tech. The Feds don't like @DarioAmodei because he won't do all their bidding. And so, we've now entering the Soviet-style propaganda portion of the program with the White House feeding every reporter it can find with laughable claims like Dario is unreachable at a wellness retreat. Come on. I'd hoped the US would not be self-defeating on AI, since it's kinda one of the last hopes the US has versus China. But here we are . . . . already
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None of this was some weeks long back and forth. I was at Anthropic's HQ on Friday reporting when this all unfolded. Dario is not at a wellness retreat. The Feds seemed to be scrambling to try and make an example of Anthropic again. This is not technical. It's petty.
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This is so comically all fed by the Feds 🤣
NEW: Inside the 24-hrs before WH slapped export controls on Anthropic - Last Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about Fable jailbreak to Trump admin - Friday AM, Sean Cairncross, Bessent, Susie etc. held WH call to discuss - Then White House started reaching out to Anthropic to speak with Dario Amodei, who was at a wellness retreat. - When Amodei was finally available past 1pm, he had three tense phone calls with a combo of ppl including Cairncross, Bessent, Lutnick, Kessler, Will Scharf, Richard Walters, and Walker Barrett. -Amodei tried to clear up what he assumed was a misunderstanding. He defended the guardrails and distinguished between universal and non-universal jailbreak - Cairncross and Bessent were unmoved and asked Amodei to take down Fable and work with the admin to fix the vulnerabilities. (A WH official said Amazon’s findings were run past the NSA and they felt they had “proof.”) - Amodei asked for more time and info, but he made no commitments to pull the model - Bessent told Amodei directly at one point that he was making a “bad decision” - By Friday evening, the Trump admin imposed its export controls. - “Export controls were a last resort after begging them for hours to work with us,” senior WH official said. W/ @cheyennehaslett politico.com/news/2026/06/13…
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You work hard. You pray. And then day by day your dreams do come true
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Wtf
Together with UC Berkeley we are announcing the laser phase plate - a breakthrough in atomic resolution imaging. This is the brightest continuous wave laser in the world, 100 million times the intensity of the surface of the sun. Phase contrast plays an important role in microscopy, but it was thought close to impossible for electron microscopy, where it would require interfering with an electron beam. Holger Mueller and Robert Glaeser proposed exactly this using a standing wave laser. It has taken over 15 years to make this a reality. Biohub partnered with UC Berkeley and Mueller to support this work and to engineer and build the technology. Contrast has been the critical barrier to achieving atomic resolution imaging of the cell. In cryo-electron tomography, a cellular imaging technology that uses electron microscopy, the low contrast makes it impossible to resolve anything but the largest proteins within their cellular context. The laser phase plate removes that barrier. With advances in AI this breakthrough in contrast will start to open up a new frontier in structural biology, that will allow us to see the molecular machines of the cell, and how they assemble into far more complex and dynamic systems, and understand how they work.
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Redwood Materials takes old batteries and then breaks them back down into their base elements. It's not the largest recyling operation in North America. In this episode, we go step by step to see how this process works and to check out the next frontier of Redwood's business.
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It's pretty weird that Team USA has an Australian coach, no?
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Can we put @bryan_johnson in charge of Christian Pulisic's health?
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The lack of advertising in this sport makes me uncomfortable. At least one player on the US team should just be a guy dressed in a Coke can
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This strikes me as so petty and dumb on the government's part. They want anthropic to do their bidding and are willing to hold the whole country back as a result
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Am reasonably confident Texas will be the epicenter of hard tech over the next twenty years. We went to the Lone Star State and explored in four, wondrous episodes. Starting here with some telescope farming youtube.com/watch?v=bN48vEqa…
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