Huge day for permitting reform in Washington, DC The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources is going to be voting on the bipartisan Manchin-Barrasso bill. Here’s a thread with some charts/stats on why permitting reform is urgently needed…

A half-baked approach that only applies to US companies will not meaningfully slow China down, but it sure will slow down US competitiveness. You cannot dam half a river.

Today, bipartisan legislation establishing a NIST foundation has passed committee! Very promising for the prospect of massively improved US technical state capacity in AI & other emerging tech in 2025.

✅ Permitting reform package sails through Senate ENR Committee markup ✅ NIST Foundation proposal passed through Senate Commerce Committee markup Good day for IFP issues in the Senate 🫡

We just launched a new program aimed at substantially automating the translation of the world’s legacy C code to Rust. If successful, this work could eliminate the entire class of memory safety security vulnerabilities in C programs. More: darpa.mil/news-events/20…

1/8 Two new state-of-the-art open LLMs have been released recently: Llama 3.1 405B and Mistral Large 2. How do they compare with other leading models? We tested them on GPQA, using multiple runs to account for model randomness.

This *single* shipment of smuggled AI chips is worth almost double the Bureau of Industry and Security's (BIS) budget for export control enforcement. As incentives to smuggle AI chips at scale grow, there's ~zero chance that today's methods and resourcing will be sufficient.

Concept: we let BIS directly smuggle a few chip shipments per year and use the proceeds to 10x their enforcement budget

This is spot on - AI chip companies are building one of the the most strategically important technologies in the world, with huge profit margins. They can and should do more to ensure this tech doesn't fall into the wrong hands. x.com/fiiiiiist/stat…

New release: Part 2 of the new R Street Institute “AI and Public Health Series” addresses “How AI Can Help Tackle Major Causes of Suffering and Death.” This essay is jam-packed with examples and data highlighting the many ways medical professionals are already tapping the power of AI to

Alongside an all-star team of Sarah BauerleDanzman, Tim Fist, Emily Kilcrease and Ngor Luong, happy to share some comments and suggestions with Treasury Department as it finalizes the outbound investment rule cnas.org/publications/c…

A company selling AI compute to the Chinese military was blacklisted by the US govt. The execs sidestepped the restriction by simply creating a new company. We need more resources and better approaches for enforcement.

For states, it was already possible to try to engineer superviruses of various sorts if they wanted to without AI—they mostly have good reasons to not want to. Yes, AI could in principle help to make super-duper-viruses in the future. But more importantly (and very

Assistant editor job now open at IFP. Perks include: ✔️ Getting to work with Santi Ruiz every day ✔️ Charting a path to abundance ($3k bounty for any referral that leads to a hire)

Last year, National Academies asked Divyansh Kaushik and I to analyze talent flows into the United States for the committee studying international talent programs I'm excited to share what we found—including some new findings from never-before-seen government data: 🧵

I keep asking people in D.C. what they're most excited about and the common theme seems to be Institute for Progress 😍