Reid Niermann

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

If you want evidence that capitalism is a force for good, just visit a grocery store.

My ode to the humble American supermarket, for @WSJFreeEx

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Given the backlash around immigration and visas that have taken place in the cultural zeitgeist over the last couple of years, expect to see a lot more of this

I am obviously anti illegal immigration, but we should be encouraging more of these type of people to stay in America

[signüll @signulll]

kimi’s founder & ceo got his phd at cmu.

why didn’t he stay in america?!

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

US visas issued to international students fell by roughly a third in 2025. Today, DHS finalized changes to a rule known as "Duration of Status" — a move that will help lock that decline in place. The fallout for the STEM workforce, innovation, and economic growth could be severe.

A sustained one-third decline in foreign STEM graduates entering the US labor force would shrink the high-skill STEM workforce by 6.2% overall and by 11.5% at the PhD level. Over a decade, that would cut annual US GDP by $240 billion to $481 billion, comparable to losing an entire state's economy.

That's the estimate from @AmyMNice, in a guest research brief for Hoover's Immigration Initiative, drawing on research she co-authored with @m_clem and @JeremyLNeufeld.

Read the full brief: https://t.co/zo8NmEsI4x

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

The cost of not making it easier for top talent to establish itself in the US is extremely high.

Top PhDs in ML should get automatic O-1 visas IMO

[Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz]

U.S. voluntarily giving up its pole position in attracting global research talent.

Two of my research assistants got into MA programs at Harvard (yay!) but can't go because the Trump administration refuses visas to any students from their country of origin.

Now they want to limit PhD visas to 4 years (when in fact many good PhD programs take 5-6 years)...

[Ethan McKanna @ethanmckanna]

Uber is doing everything they can to slow down autonomous vehicles. This is absolutely absurd and will cost lives

They want autonomous vehicle services to have human drivers serve 85 percent of rides???

[Ming @tslaming]

GOOD NEWS 🇺🇸 Tesla is actively recruiting AI Safety Operators across 32 cities, spanning 20 states and Washington, D.C. 🔥

With its Robotaxi service already up and running in Texas, California, and Florida, an expansion to more U.S. states is expected "soon" 🔥

1️⃣ Arizona
2️⃣ Washington, D.C.
3️⃣ Georgia
4️⃣ Illinois
5️⃣ Kansas
6️⃣ Maryland
7️⃣ Massachusetts
8️⃣ Michigan
9️⃣ Minnesota
🔟 Missouri
1️⃣1️⃣ Nevada
1️⃣2️⃣ New Jersey
1️⃣3️⃣ New York
1️⃣4️⃣ North Carolina
1️⃣5️⃣ Pennsylvania
1️⃣6️⃣ Tennessee
1️⃣7️⃣ Utah
1️⃣8️⃣ Washington
1️⃣9️⃣ Texas
2️⃣0️⃣ Florida
2️⃣1️⃣ California

[Rebellionaire @Rebellionaire]

One million Optimus robots a year.

That’s what Tesla is designing this space to produce next.

The robots are coming.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@RampCapitalLLC What’s Threads?

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Happy 4th of July to everyone, including the haters and losers!

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

No doubt.

If we save on fuel costs, reduce mishaps through FSD and get lower insurance rates, that could be some real benefits for taxpayers when applied across the fleet.

And from a law enforcement/performance perspective, the Teslas are very fast and powerful. I’d imagine that would stack up favorably to legacy vehicles.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Robotaxi is now in Miami. Waymo is as well.

[Reid Niermann @Reid_Niermann]

@DoWCIODavies @POTUS @SecWar So basically investing in U.S. AI companies means smaller TAM. Capital markets will respond accordingly

[Reid Niermann @Reid_Niermann]

@AnthropicAI So we are just going to hand in the keys to China?

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

For anyone wondering what this means:
- Anthropic (and potentially future OpenAI, Google, xAI) models that cost billions to develop will make 0 revenue outside the US
- a big double digit percentage of Anthropic (and potentially OpenAI, Google, xAI) workforce can no longer work there, because they are foreigners and are not allowed to use those models

So Trump just made frontier model development effectively unprofitable and tremendously slowed down Anthropic (and potentially others in the future)

He's handing China the win on a gold platter.

*potentially: if the same restrictions are imposed on other frontier labs and models

[Reid Niermann @Reid_Niermann]

@DeItaone That sounds like a disincentive to become a top AI professional

[Reid Niermann @Reid_Niermann]

@BernieSanders If you let AI run its course, you will easily be able to pay for every social program you can dream of

[CNBC @CNBC]

American Airlines in talks with Starlink, Amazon for Wi-Fi upgrade, weighs return of seatback screens https://t.co/KP3RJFLBkn

[Claude @claudeai]

Cowork is now available on Windows.

We’re bringing full feature parity with MacOS: file access, multi-step task execution, plugins, and MCP connectors.