International talent is critical to keeping the US in the lead on AI

Sure you can earn a billion dollars. I've been teaching people how to do it for 20 years. The way you do it is to start a company that grows fast. You don't have to do anything bad to make a company grow fast. You just have to make something people want. paulgraham.com/ace.html

Recent events have demonstrated that air power is core to military power. The US military spends over $60B each year on new aircraft, the single largest asset category in defense. There are more aircraft types with billion-dollar buys – 9 in 2025 – than any other type of asset, e.g. naval vessels, munitions, and space assets. But individual aircraft cost has become a barrier to traditional air superiority. America’s most exquisite fighters and bombers cost many hundreds of millions of dollars each. A single platform can now represent a significant share of the annual procurement budget. Meanwhile, adversaries aren't waiting. This is the opportunity we’re building for at Swarm. Join us: job-boards.greenhouse.io/swa…

Modern conflicts are decided in the air. We’re building a radically effective way to scale air power. Thank you to the @latimes and David Nusbaum for sharing how our large, multimission, swarming UAVs — a new category of aircraft — are designed to self-deploy over long distances and engage high-value targets many times more cost-effectively than traditional aircraft. Read the article here. latimes.com/b2b/space-tech/s…

The emerging chassis of AI must be built by America. We can put appropriate guardrails in place without handing the win on AI to China. A moratorium is China First.

If you thought Tik Tok was a manipulative, you ain’t seen nothing like a free, open source Chinese AI model designed to influence what Americans think. The HUGE point people miss about the AI wars between our foundational models and those from China, is that if it’s perceived their models are better, and cheaper, China will open source theirs. Our companies, and global developers, will use them for most everything. At that point, not only will China have won the AI tech war, they will have a trojan horse to influence how we all think Scary

This is pretty good, tbh

How the Chinese consulate in New York has unseated multiple city and state level politicians they do not like

Europe is not doing great. @TylerCowen sums up why Europe’s quality of life has fallen so much in the past 40 years. Read his piece in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/i-once-thought-e…

Brand new data out on the H-1B lottery for next year's visas: 340,000 entries for just 85,000 H-1Bs. Why are we still awarding these tickets to America at random? It's about time to get rid of the lottery and replace it with compensation-based ranking.

It is kind of insane that the explicit public policy of California is “after a massive horrendous fire, we will expedite building the same exact kind of fire prone structure in exactly the same fire prone area but NOT fire resistant apartments in non-fire prone areas”

The fact that China/CCP via ByteDance would rather close the platform than give up control of it in exchange for a substantial payday kind of tells you everything you need to know about what they see is the real value of it.

The bipartisan law that Congress passed allows for Americans to continue using TikTok if ByteDance divests its holdings in the app. The only thing standing in the way is Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party.

So Greenland 51 Canada 52 Moon 53 ?

China is arming militias to attack American and European ships

People tend to overestimate how much is spent on defense relative to entitlements

Chairman @RepMoolenaar & @HomelandGOP Chair @RepMarkGreen for @FoxNews: China Attacked the US with hackers. We need to hit back hard. “Reporting that China-sponsored hackers compromised America’s major cellular network providers should be the last straw.” foxnews.com/opinion/china-at…

We do need to hit them back hard. These hacking attacks have been going on for decades.