Emil Michael

Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering. @USWREMichael (Official Account). Previously @Uber @Klout @Tellme

[Director Michael Kratsios @mkratsios47]

Today, @POTUS signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum on AI in the national security enterprise. The men and women who defend our nation deserve the best, most secure, and most reliable AI in the world, and our citizens deserve to know it is handled responsibly with the care and seriousness they expect.

The NSPM accelerates AI adoption from multiple vendors to prevent single points of failure, updates @DeptofWar’s guidance on autonomy in weapons systems to keep pace with the frontier, and ensures no entity can disable or degrade an AI system our warfighters depend on without prior approval.

Under @POTUS’s leadership, we are putting our AI dominance to work to defend the American people.

[Under Secretary of State Jacob S. Helberg @UnderSecE]

You’re welcome.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

The idea that “AI safety” could be based on secrecy and control has been fatally falsified.

[Emil Michael @emilmichael]

Truth bomb! Forgiving @benchmark and others would be like letting the Wuhan Institute of Virology slide back into a good reputation because the new Senior Manager of Pandemic Causation has made more friends than his predecessor.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Emil Michael, now a senior Pentagon official, says he’ll never forgive Uber investors who ousted him and Kalanick https://t.co/wZlSwt0NJO

[Emil Michael @emilmichael]

@travisk Whoa!

[Emil Michael @emilmichael]

I can attest that @travisk “never left.” The fire always burns hot with him. Main difference now is that no one cares what the bystanders/ankle-biters have to say. Optimism always beats cynicism. Someone might wanna do a wellness check on Bluesky :)

[travis kalanick @travisk]

Atoms.

https://t.co/nbCnIkI3RD

[travis kalanick @travisk]

Atoms.

https://t.co/nbCnIkI3RD

[TBPN @tbpn]

When @travisk was fundraising Uber's round that valued it at $70B, he ran four rooms simultaneously out of their New York office for an entire week, each booked in 90-minute slots across 12-hour days:

"This is how we'd fundraise: we had four rooms in our New York office booked for a week with an hour-and-a-half slot on each. So for 12 hours in a day, four rooms going in parallel."

"I'm in the $250M-and-over club, that's one room. Then there are these other rooms, down to the fourth room, which is like $25M checks. There's a guy who works for a guy, who works for a guy, who works for me who's doing that room."

"But we're oversubscribed. So we started putting multiple investors in the same room. We were like, 'We're just out of slots dude. Let's go.'"

"The storytelling we did, anybody on my team could tell that story and make it happen. And that was a big part. It was the story... then there is making it scalable so that there are 10 different people in a company that can pitch it at any given time. And that’s when you take it all the way."

[Defense Innovation Unit @DIU_x]

It's official - Owen West is the newest Director of the Defense Innovation Unit.

The ceremonial handover took place earlier today at Fort Benning, Georgia.

"DIU's core mission is to deliver high-tech lethality our military wants, handing off projects that have been accelerated, improved and cheapened. We are not in the business of keeping quality science projects on life support without 4-star equivalent sponsorship," he said, adding that DIU will "invest where speed, scale, and lethality intersect."

Read his first full statement as Director here: https://t.co/lkGxE3iibP

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

U.S. Central Command has announced the first combat use of Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) one way attack drones from Task Force Scorpion Strike in the attack on Iran today. Task Force Scorpion Strike was formed within CENTCOM last December with the assistance of the Rapid Employment Joint Task Force. At the announcement in December, CENTCOM stated that one squadron was active at an undisclosed location within the CENTCOM area of responsibility. The LUCAS is based on the Iranian Shahed one way attack drone.

[Under Secretary of War Emil Michael @USWREMichael]

Touched down at @BlueOrigin for the next stop on the Arsenal of Freedom Tour.

The new space age will be defined by American dominance in innovation. As @SecWar made clear, this is about total orbital supremacy.

[Department of War CTO @DoWCTO]

Embrace American industry.

Embrace the penguin. 🇺🇸

[Department of War CTO @DoWCTO]

We will have the high ground. Always.

We will NEVER surrender the skies—we are ushering in the era of AMERICAN DRONE DOMINANCE. 🇺🇸

[DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse]

TODAY WAS HISTORIC. @SECWAR @ELONMUSK

[DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse]

The Arsenal of Freedom Tour 2026 CONTINUES.

Next stop: Texas.

[Department of War CTO @DoWCTO]

Today, the @DoWCTO and @USWREMichael unveiled critical measures to protect @DeptofWar-funded research. This is a decisive step to counter malign foreign influence, prevent IP theft, and preserve the research and technological dominance of the U.S. military.

New Protective Measures:
🧵(1/9): Entities identified as "Chinese Military Companies" or those with a documented history of patent or IP theft will be prohibited from receiving DoW research funding.

[Naval @naval]

You can’t “seize the means of production” when the means of production are human ingenuity and hard work. All you can do is stamp them out.

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

And even more coming in 2026…

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

After blindly funding the Left for years, Silicon Valley is finally realizing what time it is. Dinner time. And they’re on the menu.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

This dude has done far more useful journalism than any of the winners of the 2024 @pulitzercenter prizes.