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Clean energy no longer a priority

 The MAGA administration ⁠policies scaled back federal support for ⁠clean energy and led to the cancellation or delay of $83 billion in investment across hundreds of projects !!

You opinion?

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-07-14/trump-clean-energy-policies-linked-to-83-billion-in-delayed-or-canceled-projects

The Genesis project

Genesis results

The Genesis project is the new Manhattan project but for AI! It will change the world.

Ok it is not exactly on the scale of the Manhattan project in terms of money or scope, however some people have been claiming this will revolutionize the NNSA labs. I am not sure about that. Here is the numbers from below. They gave out 280 these grant from 8000 submission for a success rate of 3% or less and the paper work was a nightmare.

One very clear message from all of this is that the NNSA labs are not leading the way in AI science in the US . Some good news for LLNL as it can make a real claim to be playing some part but LANL and Sandia not so much.

Funny just how well PNNL did. I know LANL lost a number of people to PNNL the past few years.

PNNL 16

LBNL 13

ORNL 10

LLNL 9

ANL 8

BNL 7

LANL 6

NRL 4

SNL ABQ 3

SNL Cal 3

INL 2

SLAC 1

Fermi lab 1

Savanah River 1

Saudi Arabia deal to enrich uranium

 Saudis and US strike deal for kingdom to enrich uranium, reports say

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/22/saudi-arabia-would-enrich-uranium-under-reported-deal-with-us

Saudis and US strike deal for kingdom to enrich uranium, reports say

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/22/saudi-arabia-would-enrich-uranium-under-reported-deal-with-us

 

LLNL PhD Free Pass

 Anonymously contributed:

How many LLNS or past UC/LLNL employees, were subsidized by tax payers $, to get a free Phd, and not advance their field whatsoever? And instead, just become an untouchable employee, independent of Lab employee conduct expectations?

Chinese AI

Chinese startup Moonshot AI on Friday launched what it claims is the world’s largest open AI model

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/07/17/chinese-ai-startup-moonshot-unveils-kimi-k3-model-will-it-challenge-openai-and-anthropic/

World's first fusion factory in Livermore

 Fusion energy moved from theory to reality at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Check this out!

https://abc7news.com/post/inertia-worlds-1st-fusion-factory-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-aims-clean-energy-source-commercial-use/19482659/