Morning Wire Manhattan Project 2.0: The Home Front Fight for AI | 1.2.26
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Jan 2, 2026 
Cabot Phillips, a senior editor at Daily Wire and a documentary filmmaker, discusses his latest work on accelerating AI development, likening it to a new Manhattan Project. He delves into the White House's strategic push for national security in AI, emphasizing data sharing and research priorities like nuclear fission and robotics. Listeners gain insights into Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s neutron scattering advancements and the importance of supercomputers in AI training. The conversation also touches on the energy needs of AI and the competitive landscape with China.
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AI Framed As A National Security Race
- The Trump administration frames AI as a national-security race akin to the Manhattan Project.
- They view falling behind China or Russia in AI as shifting the global balance of power.
Unite Scientists With Shared Infrastructure
- The Genesis Mission will connect 40,000 scientists across 17 national labs to work on a single AI system.
- Use shared infrastructure and coordinated teams to accelerate large-scale AI development.
Government Data Opens New Training Sets
- The federal government will provide massive non‑private datasets to private AI companies for model training.
- Access targets energy, weather, geological and healthcare-adjacent data to focus on manufacturing, robotics, biotech, and fission.