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 There wasn't a post yet on this somehow, but Google's latest AI is reportedly quite a bit ahead of others in performance: https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/google-gemini-3-just-killed-every

I find AI slop on the internet a lot and in some submitted papers. This year I am seeing this slop for the first time the lab. It is mainly from lab managers. It is beyond obvious they are using is it. Suddenly you had managers who could barley write suddenly put out these long winded posts with fancy words that sound nothing like the manager in terms of how they to speak or write. You also see lots of weird complements that seem out of place in the writing and the topic is off or it seems like the comments on the subject matter are using weird terms. If you email some of them you get back a response in minutes that are rather long but seems to repeat what you said but adds nothing. Also if you talk to them in person about something said in the email they often do not recall, or seem confused, indicating they are not even reading the AI slop that was generated for them. On the technical side I have noticed. (1) People who I would say are rather poor scientists are now saying AI can wri...

  NYT hit piece on NNSA and Labs https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/science/brandon-williams-nuclear-weapons-nnsa.html (Apparently it is now a sign of incompetence and desperation to promote the idea of keeping nuclear secrets protected. Can somebody explain this to me?) U.S. Nuclear Arms Chief Warns Against Leaks of Secret Information The email sent to atom bomb officials by Brandon Williams highlights the managerial challenge faced by the former one-term congressman. Brandon M. Williams was just weeks into his job of supervising the nation’s arsenal of thousands of nuclear bombs and warheads when President Trump put him at the center of a storm over whether the United States should change its posture on nuclear weapons testing. Now, Mr. Williams, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, has ordered his subordinates to step up their vigilance against leaks of classified information, signaling a need to preserve the secrets that empower the world’s deadliest weapons. “...

  This is an interesting story regarding a proposal to raise radiation exposure limits in particular, for the general public in the United States, https://thebulletin.org/2025/11/trumps-new-radiation-exposure-limits-could-be-catastrophic-for-women-and-girls/

It is like a child playing with an unfamiliar toy. Now, does he understand he has a responsiblity to future generations to stick with renewables? Trump Energy department drops renewables, promotes fusion in office reshuffle   https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/trump-energy-department-drops-renewables-promotes-fusion-in-office-reshuffle/

Are Livermore Lab employee raises and retiree colas, keeping up with the CA cost of living? If not, is this impacting recruitment and retention? https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/639ba3621a72923685807b82/6914c26e40d0c8ed334f2bb5_TF_Report_CostOfLiving2025.pdf

 According to CNN, top energy and nuclear officials in the trump administration are planning to meet with the White House and National Security Council in the coming days to dissuade President Donald Trump from resuming testing of the nation’s nuclear weapons https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/politics/nnsa-nuclear-testing-white-house-meeting-exclusive

  This critique of NASA's moon program was posted recently, presenting evidence that the program is in some ways, an expensive failure. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/nasas-orion-space-capsule-is-flaming-garbage/

  https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/what-the-fck-is-this-trump-supporters-rip-president-for-saying-there-arent-enough-talented-people-in-america/ Trump is now in some in some other hot water bout bringing foreign talent. President Donald Trump received backlash from his own supporters on Tuesday after he suggested in a disastrous Fox News interview that there were not enough talented Americans. "After Fox News host Laura Ingraham criticized H-1B visas during an Ingraham Angle interview with Trump, the president replied, “Well, I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent.”“We have plenty of talented people here,” shot back Ingraham, to which Trump insisted, “No, you don’t.” Trump of course want to kick out migrants claiming they take American jobs, which is base loves but now he is saying we need to bring in foreign talent since we do no have enough talented people in the US. I get that there is a difference but it is hard to get around some of the contradictions. That being s...

Chris Wright, DOE secretary,  claims to have the evidence to prove that climate change isn’t dangerous.   https://www.politico.com/interactives/2025/chris-wright-doe-climate-change-report/

  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