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🧵 The NRC has been operating an illegal nuclear blockade for 50 years and a recent lawsuit might finally bring it to an end. Buckle up...
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After a few weeks (mostly) offline, I’m back with some amazing news to share.
Grace Koopman arrived a few weeks ago. Our seventh child, fourth daughter. A tiny new thread in the wild and wonderful story of our family. She’s healthy, perfect, and already deeply loved by her (very loud) older siblings.
In a world obsessed with limits, having children is a constant reminder of what it means to live for the future. To build. To grow. To hope.
Grateful for the time away. Ready to get back to work.
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So much of what’s been broken in DC comes down to the permanent coalition class—a self-replicating blob of nonprofit careerists who don’t advance policy, just attend meetings, sign each other’s letters, and mindlessly echo the same dead talking points. No new ideas. No results. Just a perpetual motion machine of institutional mediocrity.
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18 months ago we were told a 6-month pause on AI was necessary to protect humanity from its catastrophic effects.
We didn’t pause. We didn’t slow down.
Clear the panic was misplaced, no?
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Quite a few folks have asked if regulating Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) could change under President Trump. Short answer: Yes!
This could be a signature Day 1 win. Unleash American nuclear innovation through executive action - here's how to fix decades of regulatory overreach:
The legal issue is clear: The Atomic Energy Act only requires federal licensing for reactors affecting public health/safety or national security. But since 1956, regulators claim this means everything—including demonstrably safe designs Congress exempted.
Next-gen nuclear is fundamentally different. SMRs can be physically incapable of dangerous radiation releases. The law never meant to subject these safe designs to decades of crushing bureaucracy.
A carefully crafted executive order could direct the NRC to follow the actual text of the Atomic Energy Act. Free safe, innovative reactors from barriers Congress never authorized, while maintaining oversight where needed.
The impact would be immediate:
• Unlock SMR deployment
• Revitalize domestic nuclear manufacturing
• Keep high-wage jobs in America
• Accelerate energy dominance
Texas and Utah are already leading the legal challenge to restore the Act's original meaning. But states shouldn't have to sue to make federal agencies follow federal law.
Nuclear innovators are ready to build in America. They just need the NRC to follow the law as written. Strong executive leadership can make this happen.
My team has done the legal/policy groundwork. We're ready to work with anyone serious about fixing this.
This is how you bring nuclear manufacturing back to America. No more talk. Let's get it done.
🧵 The NRC has been operating an illegal nuclear blockade for 50 years and a recent lawsuit might finally bring it to an end. Buckle up...
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2/ Fun fact: Getting initial approval from the NRC for a new reactor design takes longer than:
- Building the Pentagon
- Fighting World War II
- The entire Apollo program
Great system we've got here. Totally working. 🙃
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3/ Small modular reactors: "We've engineered these to be basically impossible to melt down!"
NRC: "Cool story. That'll be $500 million and 2 million hours of paperwork. Just for initial approvals”
This is literally what happened to NuScale. Not exaggerating.
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1/ Texas, Utah, and nuclear startup Last Energy got tired of watching bureaucrats strangle America's energy future with red tape that *checks notes* isn't even legal. Last week they filed a lawsuit to put it to an end.
And the NRC's logic is wild: They regulate a university teaching reactor that couldn't power your phone charger THE EXACT SAME WAY as a gigawatt nuclear plant.
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President Trump just signed a set of EOs that will launch a golden era of American nuclear energy.
Clean, reliable, abundant, and made in the USA.
This isn’t just good policy.
It’s national security.
It’s industrial strength.
It’s economic freedom.
These moves put America back in the lead. Where we belong.
Here’s what it means:
.@POTUS signs an Executive Order directing the reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in order to reduce our dependence on foreign technologies, decrease regulatory barriers, and support our domestic nuclear industry.
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5/ The law LITERALLY SAYS the NRC can only regulate reactors that could affect national security or public safety.
Their response: "What if we just... ignored that part?"
And they've been doing it the entire time!
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6/ Texas and Utah: "Our populations are exploding and we need power!"
NRC: "Best we can do is 9 years of paperwork."
Time to end this nonsense. States can handle safety regulation of small reactors that are literally safer than getting an X-ray.
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8/ If you're wondering why America can't build clean energy infrastructure, exhibit A is a federal agency that decided to just... ignore the law for 50 years.
Time's up. ⏰
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The fight against Uber and Lyft has nothing to do with safety. If those concerns were real, we'd be banning taxis. nypost.com/2017/02/16/bans-o…
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Nuclear is the only form of baseload energy in America where the federal government has exclusive control over permitting.
Natural gas? State-led.
Coal? State-led.
Geothermal? State-led.
Even hydro is shared.
Only nuclear is federally monopolized, and it shows.
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7/ Read the full rundown by @elidourado and me in @WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/let-states-r…
The emperor has no clothes, and we brought receipts.
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In 2007, I was given a copy of @vpostrel's “The Future and Its Enemies.” Not only did her call for embracing dynamism send me on the path to where I am today but her argument for decentralized progress has echoed through every single tech policy debate since it was published 25 years ago. It's what earned her a place on @pmarca's list of Patron Saints of Techno-Optimism.
This is why I am so excited to have her partner with @abundanceinst on this video. It is a great summary of her framework for understanding the fight over tech progress today. It isn't Left vs. Right. It is Dynamism vs. Stasis.
Her call for a world that rewards curiosity and discovery is as important today as it has ever been!
Who decides the future? Technocrats vs. innovators with author @vpostrel
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American universities used to launch revolutions: splitting atoms, building the internet, and pioneering computer graphics. Now? Too many chase headlines over impact. We’re here to be part of that change. Today, we’re announcing a new partnership with @UUtah. 🧵
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Don’t ever doubt it. We’re so back. 🇺🇸🚀
For too long, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s overregulation has stifled progress in nuclear energy. Small modular reactors (SMRs) are safer than traditional reactors, yet outdated licensing processes make it nearly impossible to build them. These next-gen reactors pose less radiation risk than a routine CT scan.
On December 30, Texas, Utah and Last Energy filed a federal lawsuit against the NRC, demanding they stop blocking the development of safe, small modular reactors. SMRs could provide clean, reliable power to meet growing energy demands across the nation.
Thank you, @UtahAG, for your work to unleash a future of American energy abundance.
Read the full op-ed: wsj.com/opinion/let-states-r…
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When the AI safety crowd realized the new White House wasn’t buying their panic, they took their worst ideas to the states. What they didn’t see coming? We just convinced one of the most effective state-based operators I’ve ever met to get in the game. Good luck, doomers.
🚀 Exciting news! @BryceTheNoble is joining us as
our Director of State Legislative Affairs!
With over a decade of experience in federal and state policy, Bryce is here to break down barriers to prosperity.
Join us in welcoming Bryce👏
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There’s a real risk the "abundance movement" gets swallowed by the progressive urge to over-theorize everything. If conservatives don’t defend what they’ve already built, the left will do to the idea of abundance what they did to the means of it: smother it in process, argue it into paralysis, and write endless post-mortems about what could have been. theamericanconservative.com/…
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"Uber charges m̶̷̶̶̷o̶̷̶̶̷r̶̷̶̶̷e̶̷̶̶̷ LESS in w̶̷̶̶̷e̶̷̶̶̷a̶̷̶̶̷l̶̷̶̶̷t̶̷̶̶̷h̶̷̶̶̷i̶̷̶̶̷e̶̷̶̶̷r̶̷̶̶̷ POORER areas" abc13.com/news/report-reveal…
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Recently @GovCox set a bold vision to double the Utah’s energy production, and it’s the boldest vision put forward by any leader in America. It’s time to make it a reality. deseret.com/opinion/2024/10/…
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I have some thoughts on this report. I'll put it as nicely as I can: this is not good research.
NEW: ARI has research out today examining the positive correlation between state-level AI laws and public interest in the adoption of AI tools.
Full analysis here: ari.us/policy-bytes/state-le…
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Uber’s driverless fleet found a new home in Arizona, and @AdamThierer's theory of innovation arbitrage comes to life koopman.blog/competition-and…
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The speech from @JDVance at the AI Action Summit in Paris was a masterclass in leadership. Speaking truth, uncompromising, and grounded in principles—this is what national and global leadership looks like. Now that he’s taken the message to Europe, he should do an old-school whistle-stop tour in every state capital. America needs to hear this as much as Paris did.
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“In America you have a lot of AI and no regulation, in Europe you have no AI and a lot of regulation.” ft.com/content/58fe78bb-1077…
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Mark is a good guy, but this tweet shows exactly what’s wrong with the “incremental improvement of the NRC” approach to reforming nuclear regulation in the U.S. He’s right that the NRC has a record of protecting the geriatric U.S. reactor fleet from legal challenges. But virtually all of those reactors were built or at least permitted before the NRC came into existence. 🧵👇
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission provides a powerful legal barrier against antinuclear forces in the USA who seek to delay and destroy nuclear energy through legal uncertainty.
But now the NRC is under full-scale attack from a bunch of folks who don't seem to understand the crucial role the NRC plays in protecting nuclear energy from endless, arbitrary legal attack and investment-killing uncertainty.
Just a few minutes ago Republican Annie Caputo, perhaps the most pro-industry NRC commissioner of them all, resigned. @AlexCKaufman has the scoop. Caputo apparently resigned rather than be compromised by politics of NRC independence destruction.
The NRC helps ensure that there is only a tiny, extremely tough attack surface for antinuclear legal efforts to target. Running a reactor for 60 years? 80 years? There is very little that antinukes can do to stop it when the NRC says yes (and the NRC has agreed with its engineers and has said yes over and over).
Balkanizing nuclear regulation by handing it over to overworked and unqualified national or state-level bureaucrats and politicians radically expands nuclear's legal attack surface while making it thin and penetrable.
If I were at the Sierra Club or another antinuclear lobbying organization, I'd be delighted by the openings to attack nuclear energy this creates. You don't have to win your lawsuit against nuclear, you only have to delay it and add uncertainty to kill off a nuclear plant project. This was the playbook that the NRC killed off over time.
Does the NRC need to be reformed? Yes! Can it move faster? Yes! And this reform was happening and so is the speed-up. I've not met any serious, seasoned pro-nuclear expert who doesn't agree. But not a single one thinks the Commission itself should be politized or eliminated.
The NRC in the past has sharply limited the influence of antinuclear politicians from hurting nuclear.
Texas, for example, is attacking the NRC both from a "pro-nuclear" AND an antinuclear position! And we want to trust Texas non-technical lawyers and politicians to not abuse their nuclear power to hurt nuclear if it's politically expedient, as is happening now by trying to block a spent fuel storage facility?
And the vast majority of delays in developing and deploying new nuclear reactors have causes OTHER than the NRC. Developing nuclear reactors that function well is really hard! Building nuclear plants is hard! Blaming the NRC from the outside is easier than learning nuclear engineering or deployment history!
I hate seeing the current nuclear renaissance be jeopardized by ill-considered attacks on perhaps the most nuclear-friendly major regulator in the world.
I work on nuclear energy around the world and though the NRC isn't perfect, for those of us who love nuclear energy and want to expand it, it's better than pretty much any other regulator in a democracy.
I will be speaking out more publicly about this attack on nuclear energy's legal basis in the USA and I ask those who know the truth about this issue but who have not spoken out publicly to make your voices heard.
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Last night, the AI provision was removed from the One Big Beautiful Bill. While it isn’t the outcome we wanted, the progress we’ve made as a community is unmistakable.
A year ago, the dominant energy in Washington was aimed at stopping, slowing, and stifling innovation. Today, that has changed. The question is no longer whether AI has a place in our future. The question is how to accelerate it and strengthen our position in the world.
That shift is the result of a growing movement. Builders, thinkers, and policy leaders have come together around a shared belief in a future defined by ambition, not fear. A future where the United States leads not by pulling back, but by pressing forward.
We’ve helped change the conversation. We’ve shown that protecting dynamism, defending permissionless innovation, and building pro-growth policy isn’t just an idea. It’s a movement. It’s gaining ground.
And we’re just getting started.
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Watching everyday folks using chatbots to cut through a 1500 page spending package like a hot knife through butter is exactly why they want to take AI away from us. Starting to get it now?
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A reminder of how darkly, and utterly poorly, taxi regimes behaved before real competition from the #sharingeconomy citylab.com/commute/2015/01/…
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The US has hit a troubling milestone: 1,000+ AI bills introduced in just over 4 months of 2025. That’s ~8 new AI bills EVERY DAY this year! This flood of state legislation is threatening to cripple AI before most Americans have even meaningfully interacted the tech.
State lawmakers may have good intentions, but they’re creating a regulatory patchwork that could cripple America’s AI leadership when competition with China is intensifying.
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So @zipline has now demonstrated "50 million commercial autonomous miles with zero human safety instruments." Time to let 'em fly!
We’ve optimized the digital world. But our roads, power grids, and delivery systems are stuck in the past.
@zipline is bringing innovation back to the real world, starting with drones that make delivery faster, seamless, and smarter.
The boring stuff? That’s the next big thing.
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For a while now, when folks asked, “What’s next for Abundance?” I’d say, “I need someone like Packy.” Turns out, that’s impossible to find! Guess we’ll just have to settle for the original. Welcome aboard! 🚀
I keep running into @ckoopman and end up chatting for hours about how America can build its best future.
Honored that he asked me to join them as a Senior Advisor to help knock down bottlenecks for the companies creating abundance.
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Absolutely dialed in this morning. Spreading the good news of thermodynamics to a packed room at #TedAI
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A health revolution is knocking, but only if we answer. Over the next few years, we’ll unlock unprecedented insights into disease, personalize treatments with precision, and pave the way for Americans to live longer, healthier, more vibrant lives.
We have to supercharge the effort to modernize the FDA. To support this, we @abundanceinst are doing something different. We’re building an elite team of AI-native engineers as fellows to work alongside the FDA. As builders, not advisers. They’ll be forward deployed to fix the broken systems holding back biotech, fertility, and life-saving innovation.
This is how we build the future. It’s how we keep America at the forefront.
Sound like a place you’d want support? My DMs are open.
@JTLonsdale is in. Are you?
1/ China is racing to dominate the future of medicine. We’re bogged down in bureaucracy.
That’s why friends and I are donating to launch a “special forces” team of elite engineers inside the FDA -- modeled after how the DoD drives innovation. It’s time to move faster on cures!
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The Commerce Clause was written to stop states from fracturing national markets. That’s exactly what’s at stake with AI.
Here’s why. Look at Colorado’s AI law as an effort to regulate every AI system that touches a Colorado resident, no matter where it’s built. But as more states adopt Montana’s “Right to Compute Act” we’re headed for a massive collision. You cannot treat computational resources as a protected right and allow Colorado to do what it wants. You can’t live under both regimes. That conflict is what the Dormant Commerce Clause about. States cannot project power across borders and create impossible burdens.
This isn’t as much about whether AI should be regulated, but it’s about who should regulate it. AI is inherently interstate: trained on distributed cloud infrastructure, deployed globally, built by teams across states. It cannot survive 50 different regimes pulling in 50 different directions.
We need national rules of the road, not a patchwork that kills innovation before it starts. That’s the constitutional promise of the Commerce Clause. It works to preserve a single national market where builders can thrive.
States are rushing to pass AI laws because Congress hasn’t. But is it always constitutional for states to step in when DC stays silent?
The Constitution gives Congress and states distinct roles: Congress governs the national AI market, while states regulate harmful in-state uses, like violations of criminal and civil rights law.
But the dormant Commerce Clause sets guardrails. It prevents states from imposing excessive burdens on interstate commerce. And importantly: Congress’s inaction doesn’t give states a blank check to fill the gap with sweeping AI laws.
Yet bills in states like California and New York risk crossing that line. They impose complex, costly processes that do little to improve safety — and in some cases could even make AI products worse.
The burden falls hardest on Little Tech. Startups and open-source developers can’t easily wall off their products from individual states or pass new costs to consumers.
The dormant Commerce Clause isn’t an obstacle to all state regulation — it’s a guidepost. States can and should focus on local harms like fraud, discrimination, and consumer protection. This alternative path will protect their residents AND support a healthier AI market.
Read our full exploration of The Commerce Clause in the Age of AI 👇🏼@a16z
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🧵 1/6 My latest in @HoustonChron: $500B in AI investment is up for grabs with the announcement of Stargate. Texas is poised to secure the lion’s share of it. But some in Texas would rather chase California than build on Texas's competitive advantage.
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It really isn’t AI that the doomers fear. If they could, they’d try to ban search engines too
Politico profile on AI lobbying has HILARIOUS anecdote:
Tristan Harris showed lawmakers META chatbot could give instructions to make bio-weapon
Mark Zuckerberg was present, took out phone & got same instructions using Google
Room erupted into laughter! politico.eu/article/ai-contr…
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Yes, the Supreme Court’s decision in the Seven County case is a big win for progress. But the problem is, and always will be, NEPA. Until Congress takes up wholesale reform or outright repeal, there’s still no real permission to build. My latest in @WSJ wsj.com/opinion/nepa-is-the-…
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The AI safety folks coming after @neil_chilson for pointing out their shocking level of authoritarianism.
Nature is Amazing ☘️
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If anyone tells you they want to do to AI what we’ve done to nuclear, run away. Run away as fast as you can.
.@ChrisMurphyCT cites *nuclear energy* as a success story for American regulation.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has all but strangled nuclear energy in America.
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So begins the end of the latest technopanic.
My study is bad news for the claim that social media is causing a mental health crisis in children. This claim is unfounded because it is based largely on SELF-REPORT surveys showing rises in anxiety and depression.
I showed that self-reports of PTSD are mostly false positives. Parents reported 109 symptoms and 59 were false (59%). Children reported 194 symptoms and 138 were false (71%). (These can be calculated from Tables 2 and 5). Why would anyone think self-reports of anxiety and depression would be more reliable? @JonHaidt @jean_twenge @CJFerguson1111
Only one of the dozens of studies on depression and anxiety cited by Jonathan Haidt and colleagues was interview-based and it failed to support their claim. I described the interview study in these posts from 2023. nitter.app/m_scheeringa/status/16…
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Y’all need to get to know @smithtjosh. Watching his testimony tomorrow is a wonderful place to start!
A new atomic age is here. Tomorrow at 1 pm ET, @smithtjosh testifies before Congress on advanced nuclear, energy abundance, and how to get SMRs online faster.
Tune in → oversight.house.gov/hearing/…
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Just read this fascinating @thefai report from @hamandcheese about using federal lands for AI infrastructure. From where I sit, this isn't just another policy paper - it's a real solution to a problem I think about every day. 🧵 1/
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Immigrants not only allow existing businesses to expand, but they also give natives more jobs to choose from. Instead of taking jobs away from natives, immigrants are creating them! Another from piece from @smithtjosh bozemandailychronicle.com/ap…
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Lots of ideas on how to bring about a nuclear resurgence. Here’s one: replace the five-member NRC with a nuclear administration led a single person reporting directly to @SecretaryWright. This would bring it in line with the FDA and the FAA, create a direct line of accountability to @POTUS, align nuclear oversight with national energy strategy, and allow for more decisive, mission-driven actions.
My latest in @CityJournal.
Trump should work with Congress to abolish the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and create a new regulator fit for a nuclear resurgence, writes @ckoopman.
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The power grid is broken. Things are only going to get worse as electric cars, AI data centers, and everyday Americans increase demand for reliable electricity. To get ourselves on the path to energy abundance, something’s got to change.
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Texas could just be getting started and we’re already hitting the panic button? @JohnBashTX, Texas AI Council member, is right: TRAIGA is a colossal overstep. Why choke what could make Texas a permanent tech powerhouse? Globally, rivals aren’t flinching; this bill hands them the win. Bias deserves a smart fix, not a wrecking ball. This effort screams fear, not vision. Let’s champion progress, not cripple it.
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Some may see this as a crackdown on Big Tech's hold on your data, but here's my bet on what'll actually happen: Companies will have to choose to comply with Utah’s law or its FTC consent decree (and, yes, pretty much every tech platform has one at this point). The likely outcome? Meta, for example, will geofence Utah, blocking Facebook and Instagram entirely. This has been a more frequent response from other platforms and websites lately. But Utahns won’t stop using Facebook; they’ll just use VPNs. The real losers? Small businesses. Local advertisers who rely on Facebook to reach customers will find their ads useless if users appear to be out of state. This isn’t an anti-Big Tech bill—it’s an anti-small business bill.
Utah is considering a bill that would force social media companies to share social graph data. My latest in the @Deseret is about this bill and why social media interoperability isn't the best path forward. It threatens privacy without delivering promised benefits.
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Buried in the FTC’s demand letter to OpenAI, the commission brings up "prompt injection attacks." Here's the problem: The FTC is either deeply confused about what it is asking for or intentionally heading down a dangerous path. Probably both. My latest with @neil_chilson
The FTC is flirting with an unprecedented intervention into online speech. | @cgousu's @neil_chilson & Christopher Koopman trib.al/2vd8FxJ
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Huge news for the tech policy community! Could not be more excited for @WillRinehart. I cannot wait to see where this takes him!
I'm excited to announce a new @AEI Center for Technology, Science, & Energy, led by the excellent Tony Mills! And very pleased to welcome to AEI @WillRinehart as a resident senior fellow & @RogerPielkeJr as a nonresident senior fellow! See below! aei.org/press/press-release-…
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Perception versus Reality
I don’t know whether selling publicly owned lands is a good idea, but I do think people hear that and assume we’re talking about selling Zion National Park when in reality a whole lot of Utah is federally owned desert in the middle of nowhere.
The details matter a lot.
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Later this summer, I’m kicking off a series of invite-only virtual fireside chats with people I find deeply interesting. No recordings. No recaps. Just real-time conversations you have to be there for. Ephemeral by design.
Interested? Sign up here: tinyurl.com/nvunmeh9
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Why actually regulate anything new anymore? You can just scare people out of business...
EXCLUSIVE: Payment processor cuts ties with daily fantasy sites @FanDuel and @DraftKings nyti.ms/1QLRkJ4
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A little perspective on the ten-year pause on AI rules from one Utah dad. My wife and I moved here because Utah still believes in the miracle of a bright idea, the dignity of hard work, and neighbors who say, “Go on, see what happens.” That faith is the birthright I want for our seven children.
Lately I have watched an anxious kind of authoritarianism drift across state lines. Not from Salt Lake or Washington, but from Sacramento and Albany. When Utah keeps a light touch, the loudest regulators rush in with privacy rules, emissions standards, and soon AI codes. In the silence, the heaviest hand wins, and our own model disappears without so much as a vote.
A ten-year pause on new AI mandates is a simple firewall. Utah has already shown the country how to balance innovation with the public good while keeping government nimble. The pause gives Congress time to write one clear national framework before coastal rulebooks arrive in the mail, stamped “best practice.”
I understand fears that a pause might slow progress. What slows it faster is forcing every Utah startup to crawl through California’s compliance maze before hiring its first engineer. That is no way to run a frontier of ideas.
Utah is paving the way. It has shown that you can shield kids online, support families, and remain pro-innovation. That careful equilibrium needs room to mature, not an emergency rewrite by states that treat stronger regulation as greater virtue.
My view is part federalism and part fatherhood. The rules that shape my children’s future, and the companies they may one day build, should ultimately be written by people here, not by distant committees that don’t know us.
Give Utah ten years of clear sky. Let’s keep building the future while Congress finishes its homework. Freeze the coastal arms race, and watch what Utah’s builders create with the time we are given. If it is a wager between Utah’s brightest and distant bureaucrats, I would bet on Utah every time.
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House AI Task Force report shows promising alignment with enabling abundance through permissionless innovation. Some few observations. 🧵👇1/
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Blaming tech is easy. Banning tech can make for good politics. To understand where the war on smart phones may go, let’s look at the war on pagers. Do we really want to turn them into contraband and turn kids into criminals?
We’ve always been suspicious about new tech, but the consequences aren’t always reasonable—just ask anyone who used to have a pager.
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Why don’t more people talk about Estonia?news.err.ee/1609369526/riigi…
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Let’s do it! Lots of lovely discussion in these comments.
What I respect most is that we’re all debating how best to deploy nuclear fast and safe. The future is going to need a TON of whatever produces steady on-demand power and we can all agree nothing beats nuclear.
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I’m hearing there’s been lots of talk about “abundance” on the Stanford campus this week 😏
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Some personal news: This week is my last at @mercatus, and I couldn't be more excited for what the future holds! medium.com/@ckoopman/a-new-c…
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1/ In 1979, a presidential commission recommended abolishing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 45 years later, it's time we finally listen. Here's why: 🧵
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John Roberts with the greatest epitaph for the Chevron years: "A revolution masquerading as the status quo."
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There is no substitute for victory. We cannot afford to give up on the nation. We need to rise to the occasion, make full use of their talents, and build.
The Golden Age of American innovation is on our horizon, if we choose it.
Today we shared the Trump Administration’s technology policy agenda.
whitehouse.gov/articles/2025…
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We’re at the brink.
Thanks to a rare alignment of leadership and innovation, from the White House to bold startups, America’s energy future is finally back on track.
Let’s get building
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5 percent would bring this in line with the rules on charitable foundations 🤷♂️
I think we should add a requirement that universities must spend at least 2 percent of their endowments on direct research annually if they want to be eligible for federal grants.
It is important to create new funding streams orthogonal to NIH, etc.
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Getting tired of all the attention nuclear has gotten this past week? Me neither!
So here’s our latest video explaining three easy steps that could be taken to unleash America’s nuclear renaissance.
Abundance Institute
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Anthropic's latest call for regulation misses the mark. Some quick thoughts from my read through it.🧵
Naked grab for regulatory capture. Morally corrupt politics at its sleaziest. 👎 anthropic.com/news/the-case-…
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Abundance is hanging out all week at @EdgeEsmeralda, and we’ve got a ton planned, so come find us!
Cohosting Tomorrowland talks with @camwiese today in The Loft @EdgeEsmeralda!
→ @alexvawter of @heterodoxlabs on the epistemology of discovery
→ @jakeadler of @pilgrimlabs on the future of biology
→ @annasofialesiv of @humbavc on startup-scale breakthroughs
→ David Lang of @lets_experiment on scientific field-building
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One day we'll look back and realize that this was the true moment when our Republic fell.
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“It takes 5-7 years to build a natural gas plant.”
What if we just fixed that?
American Energy Independence is critical to our national security.
The new bill will drive solar and wind energy growth to zero. Zero.
Where are we going to get our energy from to compete with China?
We will need 25 new natural gas plants built per year to replace our amazingly successful solar and wind energy growth that this bill will kill.
Do the math. It takes 5-7 years to build a natural gas plant. The AI race will be won or lost in the next few years. Our energy grids are already collapsing.
We need more energy now, not in 2032.
American Energy Independence goes away because of a grudge against solar?
Come on guys, we can do better than this.
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I’m beyond excited this. Alex’s thoughtfulness and pragmatism will turbocharge our mission to build a future marked by energy abundance. No false tradeoffs, just real solutions. Let’s do this! 🌍💡📈
I’ve been really impressed by @abundanceinst’s work in the short time since their launch, and by @ckoopman @danielsacks @knowledgeprob @elidourado @smithtjosh @taylordbarkley and the whole team. Honored to collaborate!
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The moment has come to expand our ability to reason, decentralize power and creativity, and enhance individual autonomy. And we're in need of a philosophical framework tailored to our era.
That’s why I'm so thrilled about the launch of the Cosmos Institute!
It's inspiring to see individuals like Brendan from @cosmos_inst stepping up at this unique moment. It fuels my optimism for what lies ahead. 🚀
The world creates moments when philosophy matters.
250 years ago, America's founders turned philosophy into law.
Today, our revolutionary AI moment demands translating philosophy into code, to promote human flourishing.
The Cosmos Institute launches to tackle this challenge:
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I was planning on announcing later this week, but I feel like my hand is being forced.
This is a big journal for only big ideas.
DM me for a gift subscription.
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🧵 The AI Action Summit statement just dropped with 73 signatories. politico.eu/wp-content/uploa…
I need to address why this approach to AI governance, despite its impressive coalition, remains fundamentally misguided. Here's why:
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Simon Cullen
Yep
When we made flight beautiful and fast, we built the modern world. Since then, civilizational speed has stagnated. @hermeuscorp represents a return to ambition.
Civilizational velocity is a choice and we can choose to go fast again.
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Uber submitted personal statements from 400 drivers in CA who say they prefer their status of independent contractors wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-4258…
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Oh no. We’re replacing “I’m focusing on my career” with “I’m waiting for Neuralink.”
It’s a sad, but perfectly rebranded, excuse for delayed family formation that’s optimized for tech-addled zoomers.
Alexandr Wang says he's waiting to have a kid, until tech like Neuralink is ready.
The first 7 years are peak neuroplasticity. Kids born with it will integrate in ways adults never can.
AI is accelerating faster than biology. Humans will need to plug in to avoid obsolescence.
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