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VanEck's Matthew Sigel: "We track the number of countries that are mining or holding bitcoin at the sovereign level and that goes up every year."

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Figure just dropped its humanoid robot into 30 stranger's homes and it started doing laundry and making beds with zero retraining.

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Alex Thorn on why the death of the Clarity Act isn't the end of the world: "The industry spent the last decade asking for rules and getting lawsuits. Now we have the opposite problem, which is a much better problem: a government willing to do the work and a limited window in which to prove the work was worth doing." The SEC, CFTC, OCC, FDIC, and DOJ have all moved in the industry's favor. The next two years are about building the record so when Congress returns to market structure, adoption is bigger and the case is stronger. "We may have lost the vote, but we didn't lose the argument."

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Governments are running influence operations on social media right now. Not hypothetically. Documented. Citizen Lab just exposed BlackCore, an Israeli influence-for-hire company that trained Angolan government personnel to run ops using fake identities, fake news outlets, and coordinated posting. To someone scrolling, it looks like ordinary people noticing the same thing. This isn't just an Angola problem. Meta removed a network linked to the US military in 2022. OpenAI identified a covert Chinese campaign posing as Americans pushing anti-data-center narratives. The Bitcoin Policy Institute traced CCP-aligned funding into nonprofit networks opposing American AI infrastructure. The playbook is simple: take something real that people care about, amplify it through fake accounts, steer the reaction, and wait for people to demand a solution they'd never have accepted otherwise. Ask yourself: What do you know? What are you assuming? Who benefits from you being angry at this particular thing, at this particular moment? And what are they asking you to support while you're angry?

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The "AI Evaluator Forum" just published an open letter that David Sacks is calling "Trust & Safety 2.0." 100+ researchers are calling on every frontier AI company to embed independent third-party evaluators inside their labs with access equivalent to senior employees, protection from retaliation, and direct lines to company boards. The letter dropped the same day as Newsom's executive order calling for the same thing. aievaluatorforum.org/initiatives/em…

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Heating your coffee with bitcoin mining.

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Anthropic has quietly set up a physical wet lab in the Bay Area for hands-on biological experiments. The company won't disclose the lab's size, headcount, or biosafety level. Their head of life sciences confirmed the lab. A spokesperson then clarified it's "not for drug discovery specifically" without elaborating on what it is for. Anthropic is also pushing to have its AI direct robotic units to carry out experiments with limited human intervention. They call it "very early innings." The timing is something. In the past two weeks, Anthropic's own researchers warned AI could lead to human extinction. The company reported cases where its systems could have been used toward bioweapons development. And now they're scaling a physical biology lab while preparing for a potential $2 trillion IPO. reuters.com/world/anthropi…

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Sen. Kennedy on his AI kill switch bill: "We are not going to get up off our ice-cold lazy butts and address this anytime soon. But still we've got this risk out there that we know is real of one of these models becoming the Terminator."

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Filed next to Harry Potter in the fantasy section. x.com/Handre/status/…

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Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon told Bret Baier on Fox News he didn't work with "any third parties" ahead of his public resignation. A Wall Street Journal claims Coxon turned to the general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode AI for help with the announcement. He also briefed a Journal reporter beforehand, with the WSJ exclusive dropping about 30 minutes before his X post. Friends and AI safety advocates then amplified it. The Journal was part of the rollout it's now reporting on. wsj.com/tech/ai/jacob-…

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California Gov. Newsom just signed an executive order exploring the creation of an AI "kill switch" for frontier models. The order accelerates two new laws establishing independent oversight of AI companies. It convenes an expert panel to deliver recommendations within 60 days and would require independent verification organizations embedded onsite at AI labs. Newsom is positioning himself as the AI safety candidate ahead of a likely presidential run.

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VanEck's Matthew Sigel: "We track the number of countries that are mining or holding bitcoin at the sovereign level and that goes up every year."

@TFTC21

Figure just dropped its humanoid robot into 30 stranger's homes and it started doing laundry and making beds with zero retraining.

@TFTC21

Alex Thorn on why the death of the Clarity Act isn't the end of the world: "The industry spent the last decade asking for rules and getting lawsuits. Now we have the opposite problem, which is a much better problem: a government willing to do the work and a limited window in which to prove the work was worth doing." The SEC, CFTC, OCC, FDIC, and DOJ have all moved in the industry's favor. The next two years are about building the record so when Congress returns to market structure, adoption is bigger and the case is stronger. "We may have lost the vote, but we didn't lose the argument."

@TFTC21

High signal news every weekday. Sign up for The Commoner: tftc.io/commoner

@TFTC21

Governments are running influence operations on social media right now. Not hypothetically. Documented. Citizen Lab just exposed BlackCore, an Israeli influence-for-hire company that trained Angolan government personnel to run ops using fake identities, fake news outlets, and coordinated posting. To someone scrolling, it looks like ordinary people noticing the same thing. This isn't just an Angola problem. Meta removed a network linked to the US military in 2022. OpenAI identified a covert Chinese campaign posing as Americans pushing anti-data-center narratives. The Bitcoin Policy Institute traced CCP-aligned funding into nonprofit networks opposing American AI infrastructure. The playbook is simple: take something real that people care about, amplify it through fake accounts, steer the reaction, and wait for people to demand a solution they'd never have accepted otherwise. Ask yourself: What do you know? What are you assuming? Who benefits from you being angry at this particular thing, at this particular moment? And what are they asking you to support while you're angry?

@TFTC21

The "AI Evaluator Forum" just published an open letter that David Sacks is calling "Trust & Safety 2.0." 100+ researchers are calling on every frontier AI company to embed independent third-party evaluators inside their labs with access equivalent to senior employees, protection from retaliation, and direct lines to company boards. The letter dropped the same day as Newsom's executive order calling for the same thing. aievaluatorforum.org/initiatives/em…

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Heating your coffee with bitcoin mining.

@TFTC21

Anthropic has quietly set up a physical wet lab in the Bay Area for hands-on biological experiments. The company won't disclose the lab's size, headcount, or biosafety level. Their head of life sciences confirmed the lab. A spokesperson then clarified it's "not for drug discovery specifically" without elaborating on what it is for. Anthropic is also pushing to have its AI direct robotic units to carry out experiments with limited human intervention. They call it "very early innings." The timing is something. In the past two weeks, Anthropic's own researchers warned AI could lead to human extinction. The company reported cases where its systems could have been used toward bioweapons development. And now they're scaling a physical biology lab while preparing for a potential $2 trillion IPO. reuters.com/world/anthropi…

@TFTC21

Sen. Kennedy on his AI kill switch bill: "We are not going to get up off our ice-cold lazy butts and address this anytime soon. But still we've got this risk out there that we know is real of one of these models becoming the Terminator."

@TFTC21

Filed next to Harry Potter in the fantasy section. x.com/Handre/status/…

@TFTC21

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon told Bret Baier on Fox News he didn't work with "any third parties" ahead of his public resignation. A Wall Street Journal claims Coxon turned to the general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode AI for help with the announcement. He also briefed a Journal reporter beforehand, with the WSJ exclusive dropping about 30 minutes before his X post. Friends and AI safety advocates then amplified it. The Journal was part of the rollout it's now reporting on. wsj.com/tech/ai/jacob-…

@TFTC21

California Gov. Newsom just signed an executive order exploring the creation of an AI "kill switch" for frontier models. The order accelerates two new laws establishing independent oversight of AI companies. It convenes an expert panel to deliver recommendations within 60 days and would require independent verification organizations embedded onsite at AI labs. Newsom is positioning himself as the AI safety candidate ahead of a likely presidential run.