Fear Of The Signal: Why The State Urgently Wants To Bind Prediction Markets

The Department of War is preparing the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carriers for deployment. The US currently has three aircraft carrier strike groups operating in the Middle East.  On Friday, the Pentagon reported that the Eisenhower “has completed sea trials, marking the successful early completion of its Planned Incremental […]

Taiwan Tech Insiders Warn Beijing's Germanium Squeeze Is Hitting Production Nikkei Asia reports that China is restricting or delaying exports of germanium- and quartz-based materials to Taiwan, creating "painful supply-chain bottlenecks" across the island's key aerospace, semiconductor, and optical companies. The supply disruptions reinforce the urgent need for the US and its allies to accelerate supply-chain decoupling and secure alternative sources of critical materials. Beijing's ability to weaponize shipments could prove devastating during a military conflict or allow China to slow Western semiconductor and AI infrastructure buildouts while its domestic AI...

NANO Nuclear Buys The One Thing You Can't Speed Up: A Fuel-Cycle License Ask anyone in the nuclear business what holds up the "renaissance" and you won't hear much about reactor physics. You will hear about paperwork, fuel, and paperwork for fuel. The DOE's Deputy Secretary James Danly put it bluntly last week: "If we are going to have this nuclear renaissance, we are not going to be able to do it without fuel." So it makes sense that the latest move from the NANO Nuclear (NNE), a company we have...