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Investor @DCVC / Founder @One_Defense / Commission Director @AtlanticCouncil / Life Member @CFR_org
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Joined March 2011
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Exclusive: Ken Paxton donations tied to company that facilitates Chinese real estate investments in Texas
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How should Washington protect taxpayers as it makes strategic investments abroad?
NAIA Executive Advisory Board Co-Chair @steverod78 makes the case for better governance of America’s growing foreign equity portfolio in @WarOnTheRocks.
Worth a read ↓
warontherocks.com/cogs-of-wa…
Betting sites and prediction markets are predatory and should be shut down.
DraftKings makes money when gamblers lose money.
So, the sports betting app uses AI to identify which gamblers tend to lose the most — and then sends them promotions to place more bets. 💸
nytimes.com/2026/09/19/busin…
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🚨🚨SCOOP: A shipment of F-35 fighter jet parts was rerouted to Hong Kong this summer — then vanished.
Congress and DOD are investigating, amid the possibility that China may now have access to the highly-classified program.
W/ @audrey_decker9
politico.com/news/2026/09/18…
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After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?
I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev
• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions
AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution
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A major coordinated sabotage attack was just carried out against railway infrastructure in at more than 20 locations in the Netherlands.
Large 2 meter-long metal pipes were deliberately attached to the tracks, triggering track-circuit and safety system failures by tricking the grid's computers into registering that the tracks were blocked.
Some of the attacked railway lines include:
Amersfoort – Zwolle
Zwolle – Leeuwarden
Utrecht – Arnhem
Arnhem – Zutphen
Amersfoort–Deventer
Gouda–Oudewater
The boy would have made his father proud. Nothing to be smiling; he gets it. Immense honor amidst terrible sacrifice.
What you are seeing here is a 10 year old American boy wearing the Medal of Honor around his neck.
The medal had been awarded to his father.
His father gave the order that saved his crew and sealed his own fate in 1943.
His three final words became one of the most legendary phrases in US Navy history.
This is the story of Howard Gilmore.. 🧵 1/5
This makes Hunter Biden (also guilty) look like a bureaucratic foot fault.
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin.
A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: propublica.org/article/donal…
This sums up my childhood and life, post 9/11. I was 12 when they recorded this and it symbolizes so much.
This is BIG!
Smack Technologies' CEO said its AI modeling tool will help commanders decide not just which targets to strike, but how to sequence strikes over time. defensenews.com/industry/tec…
This is the fundamental problem with ALL “trust and safety” functions at big tech. They are compensated with the same rich, beefy, over inflated options everyone else is. Yet THEY of all people are supposed to rein in the profit centers??? Please. I appreciate a Jacobs courage.
What happened to draining the swamp and government efficiency? I’m all for it but when I look around, I mainly see people like “Corey.” nitter.cf/yashar/status/20971325…
NEW
The Wall Street Journal has just published a new story about Corey Lewandowski’s corruption while he was a special government employee at DHS.
Lewandowski pitched a wealthy Gulf state to “hire me on the side,” offering help with issues under DHS jurisdiction, including visas.
After Palantir negotiated a $2.7 billion DHS agreement, the contract sat unsigned while Lewandowski repeatedly sought a private one-on-one meeting with CEO Alex Karp.
Karp and other Palantir officials were so uncomfortable with the circumstances that the meeting was canceled.
The agreement was ultimately reduced to $1 billion.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/4xMsbWW
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MAHIYA NAMAN KAYO | Secretary of National Defense Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr. responded to a note from the Chinese side during the Seoul Defense Dialogue (SDD) 2026 in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
#DNDPHL #DiKaPasisiil #SDD2026
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The great @Peggynoonannyc has written a beautiful 9/11 remembrance today. You should read it. It links to a column she wrote 20 years ago — five years on — about the sounds & words of that horrific day. Every American should read it, especially those with no living memory of the attacks. wsj.com/articles/SB115774704…
Honestly, as a life long @NCAAFootball fan, I’m over it. The gross NIL scheme that its advocates said would bring fairness, the NFL coming in, the lawsuits, the super conferences, and stuff like this??
Every time I see a story like this, the wound gets ripped open anew.
An Afghan general who led an 11th hour attempt to stop the Taliban from seizing control of Afghanistan is now—like so many other evacuees—an Uber driver in DC.
An important story by @margbrennan and team five years after the fall of Kabul.