Phil Collins would be proud… 

We all know Trump walks to the beat of his own drum… but as of yesterday, that drum is apparently channeling its inner Phil Collins. In short, in an “eat sh*t China” executive order yesterday, Trump announced the “Genesis Mission”. 

I can only hope this is the theme song Trump walked out to… (Source: Giphy) 

The premise is simple: The federal government owns a mountain of scientific data and compute infrastructure… and they’ve finally decided to, I don’t know, actually use it for something. Whereas the order basically says: Alright nerds, take the DOE supercomputers, combine them with every dataset the government has ever collected, duct-tape it all into one ecosystem, and see if AI can speed up scientific discovery before China beats us to it. Bigly.

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And because this is a national initiative, we now get the usual cast of characters: the Energy Department, the national labs, Michael Kratsios, a small army of agencies whose logos you haven’t thought about since high school science class… all being told to funnel their data, compute, and staff into this “integrated AI platform” so researchers can actually run experiments in hours instead of geological time.

In fact, they’re even calling this “comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project.” Translation: Sh*t just got real. As for the structure of this whole shindig, here’s the receipts: 

• Pull all the federal datasets into one unified pipeline
   
• Give researchers access to real compute instead of the toy clusters they’ve been begging Congress to fund
   
• Let AI design and run experiments autonomously
   
• Start applying the outputs to robotics, biotech, nuclear, quantum… basically all the fields where the U.S. has been lagging because budgets keep getting eaten alive by committee meetings

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Which means, for once, the public-private angle actually makes sense. DOE gets to tap industry systems, supercomputers, and datasets. Industry gets access to the government’s absurd trove of scientific archives. Everyone pretends it’s about collaboration instead of geopolitical pissing matches. Meanwhile, the subtext is about as transparent as the dang Epstein emails. China’s been sprinting. The DeepSeek showcase didn’t help. Washington’s been quietly realizing that letting agencies hoard data like raccoons is not a competitive strategy. And you could almost feel the White House looking around and going, “Wait… why don’t we use our own data?” 

However, beneath all of it is the part nobody wants to say out loud… the U.S. is late. Not catastrophically late, but late enough that this is more of a catch-up maneuver than a “Landing on the Moon” moment. And the government knows the only way to close that gap is to actually peel open the vault and let AI run wild on decades of locked-away research. Translation: We’ve finally realized that we wasted a decade pretending cloud startups were the only ones capable of building foundation models, while the biggest latent training corpus on earth was sitting in federal filing cabinets.

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Now, whether this produces anything meaningful or we find out the DOE still stores half its data in formats invented during the Carter administration… we’ll see. For now, it’s enough that the government stopped acting like a hoarder and finally decided to weaponize the one natural resource it actually has: information. So with that, keep your eyes on this story and the ramifications that it may or may not have on your portfolio… and place your bets accordingly. Until next time, friends… 

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