CIO / Chief AI Officer @HHSGov 🇺🇸 | Former @PalantirTech @MIT
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Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased
The benefits of abundant intelligence will accrue far outside of San Fransisco.
Spent the last year writing about capital, sovereignty, and the coming reordering of economic power.
THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS
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Congrats to the team at Lumaril! They’re doing amazing stuff. Extremely talented and experienced team.
Today we’re launching Lumaril.
We’re an industrial autonomy company helping America’s existing factories run at their true capacity, with more production and less waste.
The US is home to hundreds of thousands of plants, run by senior operators with decades of tacit knowledge. Much of it is unwritten, and a growing wave of retirements is taking it out the door.
If we let these facilities go dark, we don't just lose great companies and the towns that depend on them. We lose the living blueprints for making the goods and materials this country can’t afford to do without.
Reindustrialization won’t come from new factories alone. The plants we already have are great American businesses, built over generations, with enormous potential to grow. We believe helping them scale is the fastest path to restoring industrial capacity.
Anyone else seeing a regression on Safari? Everything was green yesterday, but now both macOS and iOS are back to trusting 3 of the 12 compromised cert chains. dv-g3b-emudhra.we-have-a-pro… isn’t supposed to connect but it is…
other reports here: github.com/galadran/we-have-…
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My full fireside conversation with @patrickc at the Science: A New Golden Age Summit.
We discussed building new institutions for discovery, accelerating scientific progress, and how America can move faster on the hardest scientific challenges.
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The surge in AI data centers is putting an unprecedented strain on our electric grid, but a broken federal permitting system is crushing our manufacturers, delaying urgent projects, and driving up electricity bills for everyone else.
We need to build, and we need to build now. It’s time to cut the red tape and pass meaningful permitting reform.
wsj.com/business/energy-oil/…
The legacy COBOL code is gone and the IBM z/OS mainframe has been decommissioned. The era of manual payroll batch processing over a 3270 terminal emulator has come to an end. The whole project took less than a year.
HHS has replaced a legacy COBOL-based payroll system with a secure, cloud-based platform — addressing rising operational complexity and maintenance costs associated with outdated systems that were costly, fragile, and difficult to sustain.
In line with @USOPM's initiative to modernize, tasks that once required up to six hours of manual effort are now completed in minutes through automation, improving speed, accuracy, and reliability.
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The US Government is one of the largest buyers of technology, but HOW we buy tech isn't working. Time to level up with M-26-10!
No more:
❌Paying bogus prices and getting ripped off with YOUR taxpayer dollars
❌Buying the same tool multiple times
❌Paying for tools we don't use
❌Buying tech without CIO approval
Check out the Marvelous Mega Memo here: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up…
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Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “Something Big is Happening”. Then you’ll install ClawdBot on a Mac Mini, vibe code a dashboard on top of a postgres database and say we’re all just a couple ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover context graphs, and then you're gonna be talking about how the systems of record will be disintermediated by an agentic layer and reposting OAI marketing graphics.
“Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the application layer is just ….”
The application layer is just business logic on top a CRUD database. You got that from Satya’s appearance on the BG2 pod, December 2024, right? Yeah, I saw that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a SaaS ticker. You watch some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long SaaS? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on Mac Minis and LLM API calls to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by following a handful of VC accounts.
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Credit to the feds for publishing Medicaid data that will let the public search for potential fraud.
on.wsj.com/4kyhZeJ
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You can now visualize the full dataset here:
medicaidopendata.org/
Today the HHS DOGE team open sourced the largest Medicaid dataset in department history.
This dataset contains aggregated, provider-level claims data for a specific billing code over time.
For example, using this dataset, it would have been possible to easily detect the large-scale autism diagnosis fraud seen in Minnesota.
Download the data yourself:
opendata.hhs.gov
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Check out justice.gov/civil/false-clai…
"the FCA allows private citizens to file suits on behalf of the government (called “qui tam” suits) against those who have defrauded the government. Private citizens who successfully bring qui tam actions may receive a portion of the government’s recovery."
200 million row csv ready for download
Today the HHS DOGE team open sourced the largest Medicaid dataset in department history.
This dataset contains aggregated, provider-level claims data for a specific billing code over time.
For example, using this dataset, it would have been possible to easily detect the large-scale autism diagnosis fraud seen in Minnesota.
Download the data yourself:
opendata.hhs.gov
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The Paperwork Reduction Act doesn't reduce paperwork.
The numbers are absurd:
- can't collect info from 10+ people without approval
- 6 months minimum for standard review
- every form needs two public comment periods (60 days, then 30) plus 60 days of OIRA review
- approvals expire after 3 years and then you repeat the whole process
The CHIPS Program Office needed 15 PRA clearances, created 60 documents, and spent 25 full days on formal PRA transactions over 2 years, just to comply with a law meant to reduce paperwork burden.
When CHIPS wanted to create a voluntary meeting request form that takes <5 minutes to fill out, they had to produce:
- a 20-page document
- a 7-page Supporting Statement
- a Federal Register notice
- a Privacy Act notice
- an emergency justification letter
The PRA's failure threatens the success of the very programs it's meant to protect.
Read more here: factorysettings.org/p/the-pa…
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Truly incredible vision and ambition to improve American lives from @HHS_Jim and his colleagues. It’s time to build health AI. 🩺👨⚕️🇺🇸🚀
We are excited to release our AI Strategy to advance rapid AI adoption across HHS by modernizing processes, cutting red tape, and getting usable tools into the hands of our workforce.
In the future, AI will help us accelerate approvals at FDA, fight fraud and improve claim adjudication at CMS, and streamline grant review across the department.
The Strategy lays the foundation for HHS' role in advancing AI across the health care industry.
I thank my colleagues for ushing in the next chapter of AI to support a healthier America. More to come.