Maya Barkin × Reyk Knühtsen × Jordan Nanos × Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros

Mapping 400+ local instruments against 3,500 projects finds 300+ moratoriums but only three projects actively affected: AWS, NorthPoint, and CoreSite.Roughly 80% of live restrictions have no capacity behind them, leaving the forecast unchanged and making behind-the-meter power more attractive; New York delays roughly 800MW by 6–10 months, while an off-grid-blocking Texas-scale ban is key risk.

Jared Isaacman

NASA is shifting capital from consensus-driven programs toward explicit national objectives, targeting Artemis 3 in summer 2027 and Artemis 4 in 2028.Repeated lunar missions could create demand for landers, rovers, and resource experiments, while public funding concentrates on fission power and nuclear-electric propulsion.SR1 Freedom’s 2028 target, uncertain lunar returns, and China’s ambitions make execution and launch capacity key watchpoints.

Kevin Roose × Casey Newton

AI safety has moved from Bay Area inside talk to mainstream political risk as former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon quit and frontier leaders publicly sought coordinated restraint.Unsolved alignment, earlier-than-expected agent behavior, and labs using models to build successors make recursive self-improvement a nearer-term concern, while limited political capacity could narrow the window for action before expertise and compute diffuse.

Stablecoin proliferation is shifting toward corporate treasury, as banks and multinationals may issue white-label coins to capture float.CLARITY’s 49–50 failure hit Coinbase roughly 10% and Circle 12%, while the SEC’s five-year exemption may accelerate tokenized-securities innovation but remains reversible.Arc’s more than 190 partners showed Circle’s reach, but its memecoin-heavy debut obscured a payments strategy designed to offset lower rates.

Nick Shirley × Chamath Palihapitiya × Jason Calacanis × David Sacks × David Friedberg

California’s high-speed rail has consumed $15 billion over 18 years without track, while estimates rose from $33B to $236B.One-third of spending went to change orders and delays, including a February settlement exceeding half a billion dollars; Sacramento still approved $1B annually for 20 years.AB 2624 is a First Amendment lawsuit and potential distribution constraint as Shirley expands welfare investigations through X.

Peter Diamandis × Salim Ismail × Dave Blundin × Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Dario Amodei proposes slowing frontier releases through employee-level third-party evaluators, lab coordination, and international bioweapons cooperation, while Alex Wissner-Gross calls the campaign a possible “safety cartel.”Anthropic reports biological-weapons cases and says it can no longer confidently assure models remain below the dangerous threshold, strengthening the case for mutual API testing while leaving cartel-like coordination unresolved.

Dina Powell McCormick

Meta’s multibillion-dollar Richland Parish project lifted sales-tax growth from 5–10% to a 260% peak and certified employees’ checks from $10,000 to $50,000.Louisiana shifts generation, grid resilience, upgrades and storm costs to Meta; the Academy produced 250 graduates and 90% retention from 40,000 applicants, while Google and BlackRock support scaling amid backlash and Cotton and Warner’s adversary theory.

Molly O'Shea × Brad Gerstner × Jason Chang × Rob Goldberg

Brad Gerstner is pushing a $100 coronary calcium CT scan as “the mammogram for the heart,” targeting 40 million annual scans and claiming 50,000 lives and $20 billion in government care costs could be saved.Half of heart-attack victims have normal cholesterol, while preventive-cardiology chiefs scan at 30 or 35 and target LDL below 40 after any non-zero score.He thinks Medicaid and Medicare coverage could arrive “by the end of this year,” but soft-plaque limits remain unresolved.

JD Vance × Chamath Palihapitiya × Jason Calacanis × David Sacks × David Friedberg

Vance’s deficit plan pairs targeted cuts and growth with roughly $250B in anti-fraud savings, while markets question whether either party is serious about debt.His power-scarcity thesis ties data-center backlash to decades of underbuilding, but H-1B lawsuits and denied defensive access to Anthropic’s newest models keep execution and security unresolved.

Nathan Labenz × Anton Leicht

Anton Leicht now sees misalignment cases as a major future problem, but says a frontier-only six-month pause would surrender America’s decisive chip advantage while China advances elsewhere.A government halt could signal crash risk, whereas a lab-led reliability pause might remove political tail risk; watch executive action, the 2028 primaries, and Taiwan’s unresolved threat to AGI end-games.