Chris Beach @cebeach

Data centers barely use any water, barely use any land, and they lower electric bills.

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"Europe's biggest innovation of the last few years is... the bottle cap. Meanwhile, in America, Elon Musk is landing rockets on gantries." @mattwridley — the Rational Optimist himself — with @JTLonsdale on the transatlantic gap and what Elon & SpaceX have been able to achieve.

One of the biggest constraints on growth has always been the ability to scale human judgment. At Palantir, we saw firsthand why exceptional people matter in helping customers understand and deploy transformative technology. The hardest work wasn't explaining the technology. It was understanding context, reasoning through novel situations, and helping customers make better decisions. Until now, that hasn't been scalable. That's changing. @8vc led @withsableai's $45M raise alongside my friend @shaunmmaguire at @sequoia. I'm honored to be joining the board. The best founders recognize platform shifts early and execute even faster. Nim Ravid and the Sable team saw where multimodal AI was heading early and built with remarkable speed. Sable is building an AI employee that can see what a customer sees, interact with the product alongside them, and reason through complex problems in real time. What felt like science fiction a year ago is already working in production with some of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world. We’re excited to work alongside @Nim_Ravid1, Linda, Leon, Itamar, and the entire Sable team as they build one of the defining AI companies of this next era.

Nim Ravid @Nim_Ravid1

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Introducing Aidan, your newest AI employee Aidan is the first computer-using AI built for realtime conversation We’ve raised $45M from @sequoia and @8vc to bring Aidan to the world @NotionHQ and @DecagonAI already use Aidan to run customer interactions. This is how

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New York just became the first state in the country to sign a moratorium on data centers. I want you to sit with that, because it tells you everything about the two paths in front of us. One path builds the infrastructure that runs the next fifty years of the American economy. The other talks itself into a moral panic, bans the future, and then acts surprised when the jobs and the money show up in somebody else’s state. I am here to defend the data centers, and I want to walk you through why, because most of the fear you are hearing is manufactured. ewerickson.substack.com/p/in-defense-o…

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NEW: The U.S. military just used sea drones in combat for the first time. @JTLonsdale explains the significance with @EdLudlow: "There are three Saronic Corsairs involved in an attack on [Iran's] Bandar Abbas Base... imagine what you can do with hundreds of them... Saronic is one of the most important defense companies in the US... It's become more obvious to the leadership in the Pentagon that the very top startups are way ahead of the primes in a bunch of areas." Ed Ludlow:  There was news just before we came on air... Could you explain it to us the basics of what CENTCOM is demonstrating in a video? Joe Lonsdale: CENTCOM just put this out so I can only say what was public, but they said there are three [Saronic] Corsairs involved in an attack on the Bandar Abbas Base. These are unmanned drones. The same drones that save the pilots in the Strait of Hormuz... And in this case, they're being used in an attack. Right now, there's three of them, and you can imagine what you can do with hundreds of them. Saronic -- we co-founded out of 8VC. Ed: That's what you explained earlier. This format's different... Joe: 30% of our money goes towards companies we help build. So Dino is the main founder along with Vib -- Dino Mavrookas who is a Navy Seal -- and they've built an amazing team of top talent around them in Austin, Texas. They're scaling very, very quickly; it's one of the most important defense companies in the US. Ed: So could I ask you for your assessment of how Secretary Hegseth has or has not changed the relationship between the Pentagon, the Department of War, and how it works with start ups?  Joe: Listen, I think it's become more obvious to the leadership in the Pentagon that the very top startups are way ahead of the primes in a bunch of areas. And what they've done is they've shifted things. And he's been very bold about this to focus on fair competition... What was happening before is the incentives were to create very, very exquisite designs that were very, very expensive. So you might be able to build the best thing in the world, but it's 100 times more expensive. And what Palmer [Luckey] at Anduril and Dino at Saronic and others have demonstrated is actually there are designs so you can make 100 or 1,000 more of these for the same cost, and that are many times even better.

Three weeks ago, the @Saronic Corsair brought two American aviators home. Last night, Corsairs hit Bandar Abbas in the first US sea drone combat strike. Look out for more news on Saronic soon; they aren’t resting on their laurels. Just getting going. Proud of this team 🇺🇲

U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM

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Yesterday, using multiple one-way attack surface drones, CENTCOM forces successfully struck a submarine and ship maintenance facility in Iran. Three Corsair unmanned surface vessels hit the port at Bandar Abbas Naval Base, marking the first time American forces have employed sea

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1/ Customer research is a $140B industry built on outdated tools. @AaronLCannon & @OutsetAI are a canonical example of the AI wave -- one of the fastest growing, AI-led primitives we've seen. What's their unlock? Why does it matter? And are they just replacing humans?

American Optimist @AmOptimistShow

2 weeks ago

EPISODE 159: How AI Is About to Upend the $140B Customer Research Industry @JTLonsdale sits down with @AaronLCannon, founder & CEO of @OutsetAI Learn how AI can outperform humans in customer surveys, the new possibilities with real-time customer feedback, how Outset grew

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Laotian national Tou Lue Vang was convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota.  He was set to be deported until @GovTimWalz issued him a pardon. Then, I revoked his legal status. @ICEgov has removed him from the U.S. and he will never endanger another American.

Much of the AI narrative revolves around architecture research, compute scaling & buying human data. Very few understand the deep technical discipline of "data research," which has driven many of the gains in model capabilities. @vvkgopalan sits down with @madiator & @AlexGDimakis, founders of @bespokelabsai, a company defining the category of data research. (00:00) Introducing Mahesh and Alex (03:40) Teaching a 1000 person ML class at Berkeley / changes in CS education in the age of AI (06:10) Open source data for frontier model training, OpenThoughts & training models for data curation (12:00) Why multiple-answer yields more performant models, benefits of keeping unverifiable examples in datasets (17:20) RL scaling laws / introduction to Bespoke (19:45) "Environment-driven Development" (28:35) New capabilities in frontier models & coding agents (34:30) Market outlook for RL environments (42:30) Exciting recent research and how we arrived at today's state of RL (50:00) Bespoke's Series A

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EPISODE 159: How AI Is About to Upend the $140B Customer Research Industry @JTLonsdale sits down with @AaronLCannon, founder & CEO of @OutsetAI Learn how AI can outperform humans in customer surveys, the new possibilities with real-time customer feedback, how Outset grew revenue 8X this past year, and more! (00:00) Episode intro (01:10) Aaron's entrepreneurial journey (06:00) How does AI-moderated research work? (09:25) Why people will talk to AI more than humans (13:40) How Outset landed Microsoft, Google & Uber (14:55) Are you replacing human jobs? (20:56) New possibilities for real-time product improvements (23:30) The pros and cons of synthetic research (28:00) Insane growth / how Outset 8X'd revenue (35:00) How AI is upending a $140B industry

they did it. the mad lads actually did it. i never talked about my time at DOGE last year because it was so controversial and contentious (remember that?) early last year, @jgebbia recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the Office of Personnel Management to solve the "retirement paper" problem. processing a federal retirement took months, and in the extreme retirees could wait up to 6 months for their full pension to arrive. what was the holdup? paper. remember hearing Elon talk about "the mine" in Pennsylvania? we got to visit it. in deep underground caverns blasted out of limestone, there were literally acres of file cabinets, as far as the eye could see, storing files detailing federal employees' employment and paystub history. a simple "case" might be only a quarter or half inch thick, but really complex cases filled up whole filing cabinets. one famously took up a whole pallet. each case was hand processed by case workers in cubicles deep underground. they checked calculations, made sure forms were filled out properly (many weren't), and handled a long tail of complex issues. we'd watch as they keyed data into a black and white terminal, transmitting to the COBOL mainframe built many decades ago. since cases were processed by hand, there were multiple rounds of human review, and additional rounds for complex cases. case files were walked around between one worker's outbox and another's inbox. sometimes it would sit in one place for days, waiting to be picked up. to OPM's credit, they'd done multiple rounds of "digital transformation" spanning decades, so some systems were newer than others. there was a big effort in the mid-90s. but the systems were disparate, and it was a total maze getting them to talk to each other. there was a big effort to build a web app where employees applying for retirement could digitally fill out the necessary forms — just to be mailed to the mine and stuffed into the paper file. and few federal agencies were even using it. when we arrived, OPM was midway through a fresh attempt at digital transformation, delivered by a software contractor. the blackpill was seeing the terrible quality of the software and interacting with the contractors. coming from silicon valley, i couldn't believe how low the talent and quality bar was for selling software to the government. it's clear, as the OG USDS people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. it's a huge moat. delivery of quality product be damned. we fired the vendor and took over the project. they'd been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it. at first we tried to bend it to our will, to actually connect all the various data sources and get to a decent UX for case workers in the mine to use, but we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch. it was around this time I had to go back to new york — i had a new job waiting for me, a four month old, and a wife whose patience was running out. but i got to watch from afar as the team cranked day and night, hitting early milestones. and now they've fully done it. huge congrats to Joe and the team. @yatshitcray was the hero in the trenches. indefatigable, unrelentingly optimistic, and determined to see this project through. when i recruited him for "ok i can do two, maybe three months", he stuck it out over a year making this project a reality. while the retirement project was under the DOGE banner, it operated different from what you heard from the breathless, negative media — we came in with the attitude of partnering with career OPM employees. we were team members determined to bring our software talents to bear on the problem they've been trying to fix for years, which they hadn't had the resources to solve before. they were wary at first, not sure about us, but they quickly saw how authentic and determined we were to work together toward the same goal. props to Joe for developing those relationships, setting the example of how to collaborate together. what's the end result? lifelong federal employees, veterans, postal carriers get their full pension installments almost immediately. days instead of months. peace of mind for these people to devoted their careers to serving our country. massively streamlined operations inside of OPM. and NO MORE PAPER 🫡🇺🇸

U.S. Office of Personnel Management @USOPM

2 weeks ago

Yesterday was the end of paper retirement processing at OPM, a major milestone in modernizing how we serve the federal workforce. Read the @FoxNews exclusive: foxnews.com/politics/exclu…

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🚨 WOW! Justice Alito is absolutely FUMING over SCOTUS giving the green light to birthright citizenship "In my judgment, the court has made a mistake that will seriously affect the country's future." "Suppose that a person's only connection to this country is that he was born here to a mother who was present just long enough to give birth and then quickly return to her native country. Suppose that country is a strategic adversary or enemy of the United States. Suppose the child NEVER visited the United States while grow and was inculcated with hatred of this country. According to this court, now, that person is a citizen of the United States. He can enter and leave the country as he pleases. He can travel the world on a United States passport. Even if he plots to harm this country, he cannot be deprived of his status as a citizen, at least under current precedent." — Justice Samuel Alito in his dissent

Protesters held an event in my honor outside @InstituteCicero last night. There was food, letter writing, chants with my name, even a song! Your activism makes me blush. Sorry I missed the serenade - next time! I'll never stop fighting for the homeless and sanity in our cities.

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Joe Lonsdale: The people in charge of the sociology department at Yale and the education school at Stanford are still god**mn socialists who hate business and are bad for our civilization. But they've learned not to say certain things... A lot of people say, 'Oh, I'm not hearing this stuff anymore. It must be gone.' It's not gone. It's going to come out again as soon as they win. @zubymusic interviews @JTLonsdale for @ZubyPodcast Zuby: I feel like there's a change that is happening over the last couple of years with the pendulum starting to swing back. Joe: It's happening in some areas and others. Zuby: How do you see it? Joe: A lot of this, again, is tied to Marxists and socialists who are actively plotting to take over institutions. That's what they've done for the last 60 years. There's the very famous march through the institutions... I thought it was a conspiracy theory when I first heard about it. But it's very clear they've done this very successfully. And you can think of it almost like a virus... In this case, I think the virus has learned to hide itself... A lot of the people who run all of these conquered institutions haven't changed. The people in charge of the sociology department at Yale and the people in charge of the education school at Stanford are still godd*mn socialists who hate businesses and who are bad for our civilization. But they've learned not to say certain things. They've learned not to very publicly and openly say, 'We shouldn't have advanced math anymore,' which is what the education department in general is doing. They're going around getting rid of advanced math for equity purposes... A lot of people say, 'Oh, I'm not hearing this stuff anymore. It must be gone.' It's not frickin gone. It's going to come out again as soon as they win, as soon as they feel like they're safe. But right now they're hiding. I think it's hiding everywhere.

Ro Khanna massively embarrassed himself today. Instead of discussing policy, he accused me of anti-Chinese racism. My wife is Chinese. My 4 children are half Chinese. What’s Ro Khanna? 100% clown.

Rep. Ro Khanna @RepRoKhanna

3 weeks ago

Republican witness Michael Lucci called to denaturalize 1.5 million Chinese Americans born here. I called him out for his racism.

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