Beth Lyons

It's Friday, March 20th, which was named.

And so it's a formal executive branch position that lands the same week as earlier this week, Department of Energy announced a $293 million Genesis mission announcement.

And Genesis, hang on, let me go up.

The Genesis mission is basically covering 20 plus national science and technology challenges.

And there are two levels of grants.

Phase one grants are $500,000 to $750,000.

a thousand over nine months and phase two scales it to six to 15 million over three years.

Applications are due April 28th, 2026.

So if you have an idea, go to the Arbor of Energy and see what you need to submit because that is happening soon.

There's an information webinar also on March 26th.

The program explicitly forces collaboration across government labs, academia, and industry.

No single institution can claim a grant alone.

And it's a structured design choice that treats AI problem solving as a commons rather than a proprietary capability.

Yes, we are also surprised that this was announced from this administration, but let's go with it.

Let's collaborate.

That's my news from around the block because I am still outside Washington, D.C.

Well, yes, and right, like there's quantum, there's a thought that quantum computing makes this better for the humans, but anything that makes it better for the humans also makes it better for the...

the agents right like we're we're running it uh like just if we have access to the quantum computer and we're not giving the agent access to the quantum computer i don't know it feels a little like a jurassic park kind of moment like you thought you were in control uh maybe you misunderstood the way that things function uh we're not in as much control as possible

I thought they had something called tasks, but this is once again, everybody using the same word, like just make it slightly different.

So we're not just talking about the same thing.