Aug 28, 2025

No Priors Ep. 129 | With U.S. Under Secretary of State (E) Designate Jacob Helberg

Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary of State designate, discusses how AI will act as a productivity engine to reindustrialize America, the geopolitical race for AI dominance in the "superintelligence century," and the critical need for nuclear energy to power this transformation.

Jul 23, 2025

The U.S. Can’t Build AI Without These Materials

The Western mining industry is broken, hampered by a talent drain, slow technology adoption, and misaligned incentives. A new, vertically integrated, software-first approach leveraging Reinforcement Learning (RL) and LLMs can build and operate mines and refineries faster, cheaper, and more flexibly, addressing critical geopolitical supply chain risks.