Reflecting on the “From Silicon to Scale” hackathon at GTC 2026.
With 296 builders and 48 hours of intense innovation, we unleashed 18,432 B200 GPU hours and $180k in credits!
Plus, we had speakers and prizes from @nvidia, @OpenAI, @thinkymachines, and @GPU_MODE. Here's what went down! 👇
To build a sustained human presence on the Moon, we are building @NASAMoonBase, prioritizing surface operations and scalable infrastructure.
- Frequent robotic landings and mobility testing including MoonFall drones
- Starting in 2027 nearly monthly cadence of equipment and rovers with scientific payloads landing on the Moon.
- Investments in power, communications, and surface mobility
- Scalable infrastructure to support long-term human presence
The objective is clear: build the foundation for an enduring lunar base and take the next step toward Mars.
Imagine this was your life, exploited, unable to even turn around for months at a time. Forced to give birth again and again, your babies taken from you every time. Years of suffering… and then you’re slaughtered.
"The central theme of the book is the contrast between the Hobbits (or "the Shire") and the appalling destiny to which some of them are called, the terrifying discovery that the humdrum happiness of the Shire, which they had taken for granted as something normal, is in reality a sort of local and temporary accident, that its existence depends on being protected by powers which Hobbits forget, against powers which Hobbits dare not imagine."
-CS Lewis, close friend of JRR Tolkien
Factory farming is a blight.
The practices of industrialized animal farming are aesthetically and morally revolting. These practices can be phased out.
Read the new article by @Liv_Boeree (link below):
Factory farms are profoundly anti-traditional, and conservatives should stand firmly against them.
They are a modern monstrosity, an industrial system that has torn the soul out of food production, leaving something wretched and unnatural in its place.
Until recently, animal farming was an honorable way of life, rooted in a long and meaningful tradition. Pasture farming connected people to the land and to their animals, fostering a bond grounded in respect and stewardship.
Today, opposition to factory farming among conservatives is far lower than it should be. This is partly because such opposition is often conflated with left-wing ideas about vegetarianism and veganism. But this is a mistake. The conservative alternative to industrialized agriculture is not vegetarianism. It is the restoration of traditional pasture farming.
It's hard to grasp the scale of factory farming.
@Lewis_Bollard described what he saw at one farm with 200,000 hens in battery cages (each hen crammed together with 4-6 other hens in a space the size of a microwave oven for years on end, unable to even flap their wings).
Consider an alternative civilization where factory farming didn't exist. If we had just discovered that there was one farm treating 200,000 animals this way, it would be a moral emergency.
But there are about 8 billion caged hens alive globally at any moment. Which means this one farm is literally just 1/40,000th of the suffering. And that's just for egg production.
The whole episode isn't so dire - it discusses the science and economics of the meat industry. But I wanted to highlight this point because it is so easy to flinch away, and not notice how big and important this issue really is.
Disappointed but not surprised by the tone of this article.
The authors tried desperately to smear Luke with their poorly engineered invective but instead only showed the limitation of their vision and the mediocre cowardice of their "sources" who couldn't even air their own uninformed opinions under their own name.
Not a single mention of the ballooning deficit. Not a single mention of collapsing state capacity.
Implied that USAID was cut bc Luke misread some database, and not that DOGE found that USAID had illegally ignored an executive order by continuing to pour money into unaccountable foreign NGOs, some of which was illegally coming back into partisan US organizations.
It is astonishingly irresponsible to paint a target on Luke like this. A number of sources made claims about his motives, which is defamatory.
An article like this brings dishonor upon the profession.
Anduril had people/hardware in Ukraine two weeks into the invasion. Our autonomous weapons have destroyed hundreds of millions worth of Russia's war machine.
The United States should give them the tools they need to win. It is the fastest path to peace, one way or another.
This isn’t Apollo. This isn’t The Martian. This is the Normandy Landings in space.
And it’s the right way to go. A lot of the difficulties of surviving in space can be brute forced by throwing more mass at them.