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  This is more information on the latest Chinese AI breakthroughs: https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/07/moonshot-launches-open-source-kimi-k2-thinking-ai-trillion-parameters-reasoning-capabilities/ https://youtu.be/s_YfqQ_KHYA?si=Q4uqGKeK25GvQW1y https://youtube.com/shorts/hYuATUunpIU?si=a7R8V0427mnAVVmg

  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Washington has lost its edge in artificial intelligence and warns that China will win the AI race.   https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/china-is-going-to-win-the-ai-race-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-decries-the-price-of-electricity-in-the-us-contrasts-it-with-chinas-subsidized-pricing

  https://bbc.com/news/articles/cpd26yxxx3lo?mc_cid=0aa7388267&mc_eid=7fcce66b91 trump's planned tests are 'not nuclear explosions', US energy secretary says

  Are material HR layoffs, HR Voluntary Separation Programs (VSP), or HR hiring freezes, expected at LLNL as a result of AI expansion? Amazon layoffs loom: 15% of HR team expected to be cut as AI push accelerates https://mynorthwest.com/local/amazon-layoffs-hr-ai/4143613

  This is an interesting video, a lecture on the ills of bureaucracy. Evidently there is a valid critique that too much bureaucracy is problematic, and an associated viewpoint that many organizations have too much of it. https://youtu.be/hk_yhi3-prw?si=cWDuQNkrF3lDCw3F

  Trump orders Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons 'immediately' The U.S. voluntarily halted nuclear explosive testing in 1992, though it has the ability to resume tests at a site in Nevada. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna240681 GYEONGJU, South Korea — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had instructed the Defense Department to “immediately” resume testing nuclear weapons. “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” Trump said on Truth Social shortly before his highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. “That process will begin immediately.” The United States has voluntarily halted nuclear explosive testing since 1992. However, it has the ability to resume tests at the Nevada National Security Site.

Source: The NY Post    https://nypost.com/2025/10/29/us-news/trump-orders-pentagon-to-immediately-restart-nuclear-weapons-testing-to-compete-with-russia-chinas-arsenals/

Source: The Guardian   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/trump-pentagon-us-nuclear-weapons

  LANL is now requiring chemical hazards training for anything that has an msds. Toilet paper has an msds. You can't even use the bathroom at LANL without training.

 According to this article, this could have far reaching effect on the NNSA. Quote from article: "As the government shutdown has persisted with no end in sight, NNSA has had to acknowledge that its funds are beginning to run out" Details: https://upolitics.com/news/trump-administration-furloughs-80-of-employees-at-nuclear-weapons-agency-amid-government-shutdown/

  Should the DOE/NNSA end the LLNS contract to manage LLNL on or before 2030 in favor of a non-profit contractor? Less expensive, better employee morale, more of a science and engineering focus?

  So in Los Alamos there are so many new people hired and so much construction that no one has anywhere to park. People have had to part in illegal or make shift parking spots for months now. Today they have out hundreds of tickets. I think LANL should have some parking or hire less people. On the other hand it is also know that hundreds of even thousand of people are not showing up to work. You cannot have it both ways. Some one needs to look into this. What we do at Los Alamos is serious, we need to act like a serious place to work. The buildings are falling apart, the infrastructure is horrible, and our overhead rates are insane. Something does not add up. It might be time for a contract change.

 Washington leaders are calling it a historic day, as the Hanford Vit Plant started processing radioactive waste material on Wednesday, the culmination of a years-long effort to clean up the Hanford Nuclear Site. https://youtu.be/u0WmL04NhDo?si=a6jdKd7wdeV89kaY

  https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/ensuring-continued-accountability-in-federal-hiring/  Trump on late Wednesday signed a new executive order that told agencies to restrict hiring throughout the federal government, providing some exceptions related to immigration enforcement, national and public security, and political appointees. Does this affect the labs, NNSA, DOE?