Making it easy to enroll your kids in Trump Accounts, saving the American people hundreds of millions in drug costs with TrumpRx, helping improve the diet of millions of children through designing Real Food, and making it easy to retire from the government
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This is a total hack job article.
The National Design Studio ( shipped and a mobile app this year. $1,000 from Treasury into an invested account for every enrolled child.
TrumpRx put most-favored-nation drug prices in front of patients directly, no middleman.
launched January 7, with the first federal dietary guidelines in history to name highly processed food as the problem, plus a rebuilt food pyramid with protein, produce and healthy fats at the center.
June 30 was the last day of paper at Iron Mountain, a limestone mine 230 feet underground where 10,000 federal retirement applications a month were processed by hand, and where 400 million paper records still sit. Applications that took six months to a year now clear in days. Gebbia's team shipped it after 15 years of failed attempts by everyone else.
Now they're doing every government site Americans actually touch. Passports, student loans, Social Security, the parks. is next.
Great job, and total patriots @jgebbia @as400495 @AdamBhaloo 🇺🇸
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"We missed our numbers" -> unfortunate, disappointing, bearish
"We were pacing the frontier" -> noble, strategic, humanity-saving
It is the honor of a lifetime to serve this beautiful nation and work with such an incredible team
One year ago, Airbnb cofounder @jgebbia became Chief Design Officer of the United States. At the National Design Studio, he’s built a small army of engineers and creatives to help him overhaul government branding and software.
@mualphaxi on @ndstudio. Only in Arena 009.
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One year ago, Airbnb cofounder @jgebbia became Chief Design Officer of the United States. At the National Design Studio, he’s built a small army of engineers and creatives to help him overhaul government branding and software.
@mualphaxi on @ndstudio. Only in Arena 009.
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I’ve gotten to work with these folks and… yeah. They’re really good.
Serious about the craft. Designing stuff so people who usually get crushed by government websites can actually get through, including massive federal retirement stuff that’ll help real people. Like lives are improving because of these folks and I’ve seen it first hand.
Honestly one of the best things I’ve seen come out of this administration.
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🚨HOLY SMOKES! 🇩🇪 GERMANY's “AfD”ALICE WEIDEL ANNOUNCES THE ABOLITION OF THE EU ONCE THEY WIN THE UPCOMING ELECTION:
"We will LEAVE the European Union. We don’t need the EU. We will send back ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, and increase BORDER SECURITY."
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.@RickJacksonGA on @TrumpAccounts
“I’m going to push the state of Georgia to match the federal contribution of another $1,000… If they don’t, I will personally donate it myself.”
This is the way.
#gapol# #gagov#
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the auth service for the public, is getting a redesign!
The Trump admin channeling MAHA momentum to improve the 45 million school meals served per day will go down as a generational accomplishment.
70% of an American child’s food intake is ultraprocessed - and that will go down substantially from this work.
My full speech:
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2/2 Second, on the messaging around AI. I do not agree that my messaging has been disproportionately negative. In fact it has been about equally balanced between risks and benefits: I’ve written one major essay about each, and even in interviews where I discuss the risks, I make sure to frequently mention the incredible benefits as well as proposing possible solutions to the risks (short clips from my interviews that end up on social media tend to be disproportionately negative, as that gets clicks). In fact, I wrote Machines of Loving Grace because I didn’t feel the AI industry was painting an inspiring enough picture of how the technology could radically transform the world for the better. The bulk of the essay is devoted to refuting skepticism of AI’s potential in health and biology, and showing why I think it will actually be possible to cure most human disease in ~5-10 years, as crazy as it may sound to ordinary people and frankly to biologists as well (I used to be one!). And, if you read my most recent essay (Policy on the AI Exponential), I discuss concrete proposals for how to streamline the FDA process to make sure the deluge of AI-accelerated drugs isn’t slowed down by the regulatory process. I feel the urgency here: I lost my father to Hepatitis C only a few years before the development of direct-acting antivirals (sofosbuvir), which cure 95% of patients and probably would have cured him.
I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks. I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust. I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over. The causes of this go back decades and AI is just the latest iteration of it. I don’t think that a glitzy marketing campaign with a positive spin (which some have advocated that Anthropic do) is the way to win back that trust — at this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive. The thing that will work is *actually curing cancer*. I think by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that we haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world. That is totally on us, and I think it’s the criticism you should be making, instead of all this stuff about messaging and marketing.
We are however doing our best to fix this: Anthropic is ramping up its efforts very quickly in biology and medicine, and we hope to have incredible results in the coming years and some early glimmers in the coming months. When we’ve actually accomplished something real, the whole world will hear about it, as loudly as possible, you have my word on that. But until then I don’t want to make empty promises, and in the meantime I feel compelled to speak honestly about the very real risks of AI and how to address them. Honesty is the right thing on the merits, and in terms of public credibility and trust it is no worse than, and may in fact be better than, an approach that ignores or distracts from risks which people instinctively understand are real.
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Please, Mr. Balls is my father, call me Big
America is worth fighting for.
Very little would be possible without the career staff at each agency
Of everything that happened during my year at DOGE...
This is what I’ll remember most.
The first time I visited the Retirements Mine, I didn’t know what to expect.
Some of the folks there had spent their entire careers inside that mountain. They were understandably cautious about me and the project at first, but they graciously taught me how everything worked.
As I learned from them, I started building little tools to make their jobs easier. At first it was small: a button that saved hours of repetitive data entry. Before long, it became entire digital systems that helped them review retirement cases faster.
Looking back, I’m grateful to say we built an incredible partnership.
It wasn’t just the folks in the Mine, either. Over the past year, I had the privilege of working alongside retirement executives, engineers, and countless career employees. Every one of them played a role in bringing this effort to life.
And then, somewhere along the way, visiting the Mine stopped feeling like a work trip.
This might sound ridiculous to say, but over time it started to feel more like coming over for Thanksgiving. Except instead of fixing the family printer, it was figuring out how we could get all this paper onto computers.
What struck me most came during these last few months.
On my more recent trips, I’d set up shop in a conference room, and people would stop by throughout the day just to chat and pitch ideas. One adjudicator (let me know if I can tag you 😉) even had the day off, heard I was in the Mine, and drove all the way in anyway because she wanted to share an idea.
And they weren’t asking whether AI was coming.
They were pitching ideas for what we should build next.
This was a team that had spent decades working with paper. Now here they were, brainstorming how technology and AI could make their work even better.
That’s when I realized this effort became real.
It wasn't just because we'd gone digital. It was because the people closest to the work were excited to help shape what came next.
That’s the kind of thing you can’t fake.
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We designed the @TrumpAccounts app to make giving your child a head start easier than ever. Great honor to do this alongside @RobinhoodApp @USTreasury
Rampart, our PII removal model, has cracked the first screen of the top trending models across any category on Huggingface, on the same tier as GLM 5.2 / Deepseek! If building systems at fast pace at huge scale is interesting to you, reach out
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