First ride in @waymo’s Ojai vehicle and it’s… bad 😞 Driving feels much jerkier, lots of random stabs of the brake and sudden, uncomfortable lane changes. The interior is plasticky and uncomfortable. Huge step down from the Jaguar. I’m a self-driving maximalist and it makes me sad.

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Claude Security scans now run on Claude Mythos 5, available today in public beta for all Claude Enterprise customers. Put our most capable security model to work on your codebase, no separate model access needed.

Graphic showing how the Colorado River's water is used. More water goes to alfalfa than ALL household + non-ag industrial use combined. Is this the correct regional priority? Long term answer IMO: make water abundant (energy + the ocean) 2024 study:

It's time to build mega data centers. In counties where they're already operational, the picture is uniformly better since 2024: - More housing - Higher home values - Less unemployment - More job growth Charts of the Week:

I'm super excited to share that we have raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation to build a LOT more AI compute capacity in orbit 🚀 Thanks so much to our supporters, including Manhattan West, who led the round, and new investors, @NVIDIA, @Cisco_Invests, @CedarCapital, Goanna Capital, and @Standard_Cap, as well as continued investment from existing backers @Benchmark, @EQTVentures, @Soma_Capital, @NFX, @SevenSevenSix, and others. Next week, @Starcloud_ will move into a new 100,000 square ft facility that will enable us to ramp up our production rate to 100 satellites/week. This is just the beginning! @EzraFeilden, @AdiOltean🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️

Today, we are announcing our $31M seed financing at Apollo Atomics. The $26M equity is led by FCVC with participation from Y Combinator, TeleSoft Partners, Alumni Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Duke Capital Partners, Robinhood Ventures, and Nucleation Capital. $5M of equipment financing is provided by Oak Ridge Financial. Apollo Atomics is the only nuclear company that can deliver high power output nuclear reactors (>80 MW) on a truck. The higher power density is the strongest argument for cost effectiveness and mass manufacturing in the nuclear industry today. We achieve this without relying on exotic/scarce fuel, unqualified materials, or high regulatory uncertainty. Achieving that goal is a mirage if you don’t build the right company. With Drew Walker, we have assembled an extremely talent dense team with Excellence, Intensity, and Execution at its core. We are running a low power reactor demonstrator within MIT and now building a full scale 1 MW reactor prototype under commercial reactor conditions. We work directly with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to support a commercial deployment in 2028. Apollo Atomics is not hardware in vacuum, we are building software solutions for autonomous reactor control, licensing support, and reactor modeling to reduce OpEx and deployment timeline. Deeply grateful to our early investors for supporting our mission when no one else believed particularly Genesis Fund, Arjun Gupta, and New Era Ventures, to our early supporters within Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, TNT, MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Excited to have many brilliant individual investors supporting our mission including Paul Graham, Evan Meagher, CFA, Philip Johnston, Ray Rothrock, Matteo Franceschetti

The anti-datacenter psychosis sweeping through both sides of our national politics might be the worst mass movement I've seen in my lifetime. The magnitude of lies underpinning it, the threat it poses to our economy and civilization, and the sheer scale of its popularity are totally unprecedented. It should be an enduring national shame that the country that invented the airplane, landed on the Moon, and created the Internet is descending into superstitious panic at the very moment growth matters most

People are about twice as likely to approve of **coal plants** being built nearby as opposed to data centers. Coal plants use more water and pollute more. They create comparable noise pollution. There's no way this makes sense outside a media panic.

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is the new space race, which will determine American national security and economic dominance for the foreseeable future. Data centers are necessary to train AI, but should not be imposed on local communities without consultation and their consent. This should not be a zero-sum game, but a win-win. BTW, if we want to win the AI competition with China, we must continue to build data centers.