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Absolutely, Ben.

Yeah, so over the last few years, as AI has burst on the scene nationwide, most of the development has actually been happening in the private sector, in Silicon Valley.

Companies we all know, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google.

But the Trump administration is really big that this whole thing is a national security issue, similar to the nuclear arms race or the space race in the 50s and 60s.

And they're adamant that, hey, if we fall behind here to China, to Russia, you know, any other country, it's going to have the same impact as if we had not been the first to create nuclear weapons in the 1940s.

So they're calling this the New Manhattan Project project.

basically to create this sense of urgency that, hey, we cannot let other countries get ahead of us here.

So Trump wants the federal government to play a big role in helping these private sector companies get ahead, if nothing else, for national security.

So he signed a number of executive orders.

He's pushed billions, if not trillions of dollars into these industries over the next decade.

And this most recent executive order that he signed last month, they're calling it the Genesis Mission.

It's going to connect 40,000 scientists at 17 nationwide labs.