James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️
@JimPethokoukis
@AEI. @CNBC. My book: 🚀THE CONSERVATIVE FUTURIST (2023) 🚀 https://shorturl.at/fgyDF Substack: Faster, Please! https://fasterplease.substack.com/
🚀🎇🧬⚡️ Let's build a future of greater wealth, health, and human flourishing. Let's create big opportunities and solve big problems. The future we glimpse in our dreams is waiting. THE CONSERVATIVE FUTURIST: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised
1960s critics feared a "Mega-Machine" technocracy. Their backlash killed the post-war boom with endless regulation. Today's populists risk repeating this mistake by attacking the very institutions (Silicon Valley, universities, NSF) that drive prosperity. fasterplease.substack.com/p/heres-how-it…
Engineers transform dental floss into needle-free vaccine | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…
Six months after Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son stood shoulder to shoulder with Sam Altman and President Trump to announce the Stargate project, the newly formed company charged with making it happen has yet to complete a single deal for a data center. wsj.com/tech/ai/softba…
JPMORGAN: Core long-term macroeconomic expectations with respect to AI:
60% of the American companies on Fortune's list of top AI innovators have an immigrant founder. The world’s top talent overwhelmingly wants to come to US. This is a incredible advantage. American leadership in AI depends on allowing, even encouraging, high-skilled immigration.
Model reveal: Netflix used Runway, and are now using them for Netflix content production, per a report from Bloomberg. Also, Disney(!) is now testing Runway's model, and is in talks with them for possible uses. I thought OpenAI would ultimately land Disney, but maybe not.
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos said during the earnings call yesterday that, for the first time, Netflix has used generative AI in one of their original series or films. He said the sequence was completed '10 times faster' than would have been possible using traditional workflows.
GOLDMAN SACHS: Global Views: Stall Speed "We estimate that US GDP rose just 1.1% (annualized) in H1 and expect a similar pace in H2, as a real income hit from tariff-related price increases offsets the boost from easier financial conditions."
Inside a US guitar string maker's strategy to navigate the trade war reuters.com/business/insid…
In 1965, the government tried replacing migrant workers with high-schoolers. It was a disaster. washingtonpost.com/history/2025/0…
The situation now is analogous to Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid, which some Republican-led states rejected. “This is going to be the blue-state equivalent,” he said. wsj.com/us-news/educat… via @WSJ
This is a fascinating debate "The cost of replacing ageing ICBMs is soaring as a new arms race looms" @TheEconomist
OpenAI to open first DC office to push policy goals and show off products semafor.com/article/07/21/…
"The EU has tried to use industrial policy in things like cloud computing in the past and they have been thoroughly unsuccessful." ft.com/content/5e25c3… via @ft
Why AI Could Be a Productivity Dynamo by @jimpethokoukis aei.org/economics/why-…
"Building 10 of these [@WECNuclear] reactors would drive $75 billion of economic value across the U.S." LET'S GOOO 🏗️ 💪 ⏰ cnbc.com/2025/07/15/wes…
Ed Baldwin does NOT recognize Mercury as a legitimate planet, joins calls to grind it down to a Dyson Swarm.
We need more electricians and less sociology majors.
We need more electricians and less sociology majors.
"The success of the Russian drones in recent months demonstrates how cheap mass can overwhelm even sophisticated and layered air defences, and has shown Moscow’s ability to rapidly adapt fighting techniques to stretch Kyiv’s resources." ft.com/content/1a19df… via @ft
"And in fact, that VFX sequence was completed 10 times faster than it could have been completed with visual, traditional VFX tools and workflows. And, also, the cost of it would just not have been feasible for a show in that budget." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
