Genesis Mission
AKA: The AI Manhattan Project
Executive Order: signed November 24, 2025. Link here.
White House Fact Sheet. Link here.
This is exactly the kind of EO that the trillion-dollar AI companies will be studying closely.
Note:
Office of responsibility: Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright when the order was signed.
General leadership: the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST); Michael Kratsios when the order was signed; Princeton graduate. Wiki.
- experience:
- under secretary of defense for research and engineering
- interned for US Senator Lindsey Graham when in college
- prior to joining the Trump administration, Kratsios was a principal at Thiel Capital and served as chief of staff to entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
- architect of the American AI Initiative (began under Obama, link here);
- oversaw the implementation of the bipartisan National Quantum Initiative Act
- in March 2020: launched the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, the largest public-private computing partnership ever created, to match researchers with the world's most powerful computing resources, accelerating the pace of scientific discovery in the fight against the virus
- in 2020: third highest ranking official to the Secretary of Defense for technology, as the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
- oversaw DARPA, the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Innovation Unit, the Space Development Agency, and the DOD laboratory enterprise;
- managed a $106 billion research and development budget, the largest in the world.
- the youngest person to ever serve as OSTP director; first millennial to serve in the position; he is also the first OSTP director without a PhD. [OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy].
- huge ties to Greece (important? probably not, but remember Turkey's relationship with Greece).
- married, February, 2024, same month they announced their engagement -- to Alissa nee Davies Kratsios (linked in); age unknown; Michael Kratsios is 39 years old;
- she is the oldest daughter of Sir David Davies, wiki.
- British electrical engineer and educator; knighted for services to science and technology
- "one of the most influential engineers of his generation"
- died August 19, 2025, one year after his oldest daughter married Michael Kratsios
Alissa Davies Kratsios: Coinbase Americas Policy -- Harvard Business College
- as of 2025, Coinbase operates the largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange with over 108 million customers: products for retrail and institutional cryptocurrency investors, and other users including merchants and small businesses.
- so in a sense, Coinbase, for cryptocurrency exchange, is like the NYSE for equities?
- Coinbase: an app used to buy, store and trade different cryptocurrencies.
- due to limited public information, connecting the dots between Michael Kratsios and Alissa Davies is "impossible," but one can get an idea with a little bit of internet sleuthing.
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Mission Genesis
Nature: national laboratories and AI; link here; November 26, 2025 -- it's interesting that the executive order was signed and pretty much obscured by the Thanksgiving release. I doubt this was by accident. The important data point here: national laboratories.
The new US initiative formalizes and expands ongoing AI research efforts by the administration of President Donald Trump.
“The impact is that it enables many more scientists and researchers to have access to all of the infrastructure that they need to explore important scientific questions that the country cares about,” says Lynne Parker, a robotics engineer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who led AI-policy initiatives for the administrations of Trump and his predecessor, Joe Biden, but was not involved in the current initiative.
“That really has not been possible before.”
Science/Business, November 27, 2025. Link here.
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US National Laboratory System
