NYTIMES (Raymond Zhong) - How to Build a Better Kind of Nuclear Power? This Side Hustle Might Help.
Zap Energy says its ultimate goal is safe, clean energy from fusion. To help get there, it’s starting to build fission reactors.
AXIOS (Colin Demarest) - WATCH: Anduril's Palmer Luckey talks AI, nukes and Iran on "The Axios Show"
The U.S. holds an "extremely small" lead on China in the AI race, in part because authoritarian governments have certain advantages in deploying new technology, Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey said in a new episode of "The Axios Show." Why it matters: Having Beijing dominate AI — and thus set the rules of the road globally — is considered a risk to U.S. national and economic security. What they're saying: China has done a "very good job of distilling our models, copying a lot of our technology, leveraging open-source AI advancements and getting those advancements into fielding — not just with the military, but also their police state, their surveillance apparatus," he said. - "I'm not saying we need to build a police…