Ryan Harper

Anduril | Former White House CHIPS Coordinator and Deputy Director of the NEC | Team 44 and 46 | Silicon Valley and DC

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Ryan Harper @ryanmharper]

@ColoradoDOT Have been sitting here for an hour not moving. Have two young kids in the car. Any update would be much appreciated.

[Timothy B. Lee @binarybits]

NYTimes article quotes someone saying they are "terrified" of Waymo in paragraph 6. Waits until paragraph 33 (out of 44 paragraphs) to mention that they are 91 percent safer than human drivers. How outraged would liberals be if a news outlet covered vaccines like this?

[Ryan Harper @ryanmharper]

@ChrisJKennedy @BruceBartlett Stop it. This is simply not true.

[Ryan Harper @ryanmharper]

@ChrisJKennedy Chris - would recommend taking this down. It’s a dumb post that’s inaccurate (e.g., who was your boss’s boss?)

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Built by American defense technology startup Anduril, Fury operates almost entirely by itself, carrying out mission plans and adjusting its flight without human input.

"These fly out ahead of manned fighters, and they're able to find the enemy first, be able to engage the enemy well before a manned fighter has to be seen or is in range,” explains CEO Brian Schimpf. https://t.co/21lRTfUyGc

[TBPN @tbpn]

This billboard was inspired by one tweet by @traestephens

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[Trae Stephens @traestephens]

There-are-no-s ubstitutes. We’re here to stay.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Huge milestone for Anduril, the Air Force, and the United States. The world's first autonomous fighter jet opens a new frontier for tactics, technology, and morality.

[Trae Stephens @traestephens]

Good. Hard. Quests. 🧙‍♂️

There is perhaps no more critical strategic technology lever to pull than figuring out a way to scale and reindustrialize semiconductor fabrication in 🇺🇸.

This is a BIG + CHALLENGING quest, and I'm so pumped that @foundersfund has partnered with @jamesproud and team to go after something this important.

[Substrate @substrate]

Substrate is building a next-generation foundry to return America to dominance in semiconductor production. To achieve this, we will use our technology—a new form of advanced X-ray lithography—to power them.

America invented semiconductors. We will lead again.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

These are actual patterns on silicon wafers, printed in America

Made by Substrate, with a new form of advanced X-ray lithography using a custom particle accelerator

Substrate is building a new foundry to return the US to semiconductor dominance, and hiring now

[Bloomberg TV @BloombergTV]

A secretive American startup says it has chipmaking technology to rival ASML and take on TSMC.

Bloomberg’s @EdLudlow breaks the story on Substrate's particle accelerator-powered lithography machine and plans for an American foundry https://t.co/IP6vL4DLDF

[Ryan Harper @ryanmharper]

Incredibly impressed and excited to see @jamesproud. Had the chance to see his genius and doggedness up close over the last few years.

He has pushed through all the obstacles and barriers one could imagine to get to this point. Count me as a true believer. Congratulations!

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Mr. Proud said his company, which has received more than $100 million from investors, had developed a solution that would cut the manufacturing cost in half by channeling light from a giant instrument known as a particle accelerator through a tool the size of a car.

The technique had allowed Substrate to print a high-resolution microchip layer comparable to images produced by the world’s leading semiconductor plants.
“When did you do this?” Mr. Vance asked, according to Kyrsten Sinema, the former Arizona senator and the Substrate adviser who had arranged the meeting.

“Let’s just say I had a productive Covid, sir,” Mr. Proud said.

[Ryan Harper @ryanmharper]

@dwarkesh_sp it’s an absolutely incredible place. Tagging @petermcleveland

[Ryan Harper @ryanmharper]

@KTmBoyle This is great advice!

[General Matter @generalmatter]

General Matter is bringing uranium enrichment back to the United States, starting at the site where the U.S. enrichment industry was born.

We’ve signed a lease with the Department of Energy to establish the nation’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed uranium enrichment facility at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

Seventy-five years ago, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission selected Paducah to help lead the nation’s original enrichment efforts. Today, we are proud to return to and rebuild this historic site to power a new era of American energy independence.

This is a multi-decade, one hundred-acre lease with the Department of Energy. On these one hundred acres, we will produce the fuel needed for the next generation of nuclear energy, central to America’s aspirations in AI, manufacturing, and other critical industries. We will end reliance on foreign adversaries for the nuclear fuel powering 20% of our grid.

We will enrich uranium by the end of the decade.

U.S. leadership in enrichment will allow us to lead once again in nuclear energy. This lets us lead in everything downstream of safe, clean baseload power: AI, manufacturing, the economy.

Today marks the beginning of America’s restored leadership in nuclear enrichment. We thank our partners in Kentucky and at the Department of Energy for supporting us in this landmark investment in American nuclear infrastructure.

We are just getting started, and exceptional talent is needed. Join us.

[Ryan Harper @ryanmharper]

@mattyglesias This account was created in February 2025. It’s probably a bot.

[Ryan Harper @ryanmharper]

@dwarkesh_sp @amoshochstein who has worked at senior levels in government (the White House, State Department) and industry, has deep relationships internationally, and understands the (recent) geopolitics of it better than anyone.

[Chris Power @2112Power]

Hadrian is announcing a $260m Series C lead by @foundersfund + @Lux_Capital + @MorganStanley for (Factory Expansion financing). We're also welcoming new investors @altimeter, @1789Capital + investments from existing investors @a16z, @constructcap, @137ventures and many others.

This capital will be deployed to help our customers and the DOD manufacture faster, at scale, and onshore with @HadrianInc - creating millions of new, advanced manufacturing jobs over the coming decade.

We're announcing:

Factory 3 (4x the scale of Factory 2 for machining) in Arizona, online by Christmas 2025;

Factories as a Service for parts, assemblies and products driven by DOD and Customer demand, and our entry into Welding, Casting, Additive and other manufacturing domains.

Dedicated divisions for Maritime and Munitions to meet the scale and speed needed to reclaim our birthright as the industrial superpower of the world;

And... 500k sqft of new R&D and HQ Space to enable rapid capability expansion.