# Genesis Mission: The Manhattan Project for AI. Kind of.

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Podcast: [The Drey Dossier](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drey-dossier-7704467)
Published: 2026-05-11T17:30:00+00:00
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## Resource

On November 24, 2025, the federal government announced the largest AI program in American history and cut its science budget by thirteen percent in the same press release. They called the program the Genesis Mission, and they handed the largest piece of it to Oracle, the same company that already runs a federal clinical health records platform covering 9.6 million Americans, a platform called MHS GENESIS. And almost no one has connected these dots. Almost.This is the story of what the ballroom has been the lid of, and why the names matter.Read the full article thedreydossier.substack.com Follow me on TikTok / Instagram: @thedreydossierIndependent journalism only exists if people can actually see it, so if this connected some dots, share it with a veteran, a journalist who should be covering federal AI policy, anyone you know inside the national lab system, or anyone who deserves to know what is being built with their data and their money.Thanks for being here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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