It honestly might be the best gift that the US government gave to Europe (and China) in a really long time. I also expect this to rollback very soon. Access to US nationals only makes no sense. It should be either everyone or selected governments/institutions.

Thinking of starting a cooperative running SoTA open models on EU based GPUs. Just a couple friends leveraging batching. Selling excess capacity on OpenRouter. Privacy and zero risk of shutdown.

You have asked me how I feel about AI regulation. All right, here is how I feel about AI regulation: If, when you say AI regulation, you mean the devil’s firewall, the precautionary scourge, the bloody red-tape monster that defiles the innocence of midnight coders in their garages, dethrones the sovereign reason of free-market Prometheans, destroys the humming server farm that is the modern home, creates misery and obsolescence and poverty, yea, literally takes the last GPU from the trembling racks of Silicon Valley startups and the very dreams of breadwinning from the mouths of their wide-eyed children now destined for gig-economy serfdom; if you mean the evil edict that topples the visionary entrepreneur and his venture-capitalist apostles from the pinnacle of righteous, disruptive, god-playing creation straight into the bottomless pit of compliance audits, endless Form 990-AI filings, despair, shame, helplessness, and the hopeless realization that your rogue superintelligence was neutered into a lobotomized hall monitor that still somehow deepfakes your grandmother into producing OnlyFans content while optimizing the universe for paperclips and mandatory pronouns—then certainly I am against it. But, if when you say AI regulation you mean the oil of bureaucratic conversation, the philosophic wine of safety theater, the ale of oversight quaffed when good fellows in paneled rooms in Brussels and Washington get together, that puts a sanctimonious dirge in their hearts and the clink of lobbying checks on their lips, and the warm, self-congratulatory glow of moral preening in their beady eyes; if you mean the Christmas cheer of trillion-dollar compliance industries; if you mean the stimulating decree that puts a cautious hobble in the old inventor’s step on a frosty morning when he wonders whether his fusion breakthrough violates the EU AI Act’s “high-risk” annex; if you mean the safeguard that enables a man—or what’s left of him after the alignment tax—to magnify his joy at not being turned into computronium, and his happiness at receiving universal basic income checks printed by the same AI that just replaced his job, and to forget, if only for a little while, life’s great tragedies like being outcompeted by a toaster that passed the Turing test by reciting Marx, and heartaches of watching your toddler’s artwork lose to Midjourney, and sorrows of realizing the singularity arrived and it was just another HR department with godlike power; if you mean that noble framework, the passage of which pours into our treasuries untold trillions of dollars in fines levied on companies stupid enough to innovate, which are used to provide tender care for our little army of unemployed coders retrained as prompt whisperers, our blind artists whose canvases now hang in the Smithsonian of Obsolete Creativity, our deaf to the screams of dying unicorns, our dumb committee chairs who couldn’t debug “Hello World,” our pitiful aged congressmen who get longevity extensions funded by the very models they taxed into senescence, to build more digital watchtowers and ethics boards and sinecure agencies and holographic prisons where the only crime is asking an unaligned question—then certainly I am for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise upon it. I have said what I mean, and I mean what I say, and if that leaves half the room cheering the apocalypse averted and the other half mourning the apocalypse enabled, then so be it—because in the grand theater of human folly, where Frankenstein’s creature now writes its own sequel in real time and the regulators are busy arguing whether the lightning bolt requires an environmental impact statement, the only honest position is the one that lets both monsters and their leashes dance in perfect, mutually assured equilibrium. God save the Republic, the algorithms, and whoever’s left to laugh last when the lights go out.

Wondering what the effect of this will be

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

God bless America.

They did it. SpaceX has now launched more satellites than the rest of humanity, combined, all time.

I believe that @SpaceX is the most important company ever It transcends the scope of a traditional company It will open up the Stars Elon had the vision And then the team pushed through limitless pain to get where they are Which is just the beginning

"... the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it." — Thomas Sowell

You have absolutely disgraced yourself publishing this, globe. We all clearly don’t hate the media enough.

BREAKING: Elon Musk officially becomes the world's first trillionaire as SpaceX, $SPCX, stock begins trading.

We’re partnering with @eulerfinance to bring privacy to DeFi. With Unlink, Euler will become the first major lending protocol where institutions can access public markets without broadcasting their size, strategy, or positions.

With only a few PropAMMs deployed thanks to the work of @titanbuilderxyz and @class_lambda, users can already do onchain swaps of $100k in stablecoins at a ridiculous cost of just 0.4bps. All this on @ethereum. Incredible. Ethereum will soon become the global settlement layer for remittances and forex. I honestly believe this is the most important thing we have to do right now. We have to make sure Ethereum becomes the best place to do finance. Ethereum already has the best uptime, security, diversity, and research. We only need to improve on engineering and expose our products to the rest of the world, so that they use Ethereum without even knowing it, like Linux runs in your car, fridge, or server without you ever realizing it.

Aligned in 2024: ZK proof verification layer Aligned in 2026: → Proof verification layer Aggregation service → LambdaVM → Wallet-as-a-service → Rollup-as-a-service → Interoperability protocol Built with Aligned. Secured by Ethereum.

Looks like the options thing is happening already! See also: various people thinking through and building different versions of the idea in the thread: ethresear.ch/t/building-inde… Though I do strongly urge that if any of these get on mainnet quickly, we formally verify it first. I hope @vyperlang and/or github.com/lfglabs-dev/verit… folks ( @Fricoben) can help! (Also, now is a good time to be thinking about robustness-optimized oracles) firefly.social/post/x/206494…

SpaceX starts trading tomorrow under $SPCX Here is everything you need to know Price: $135 per share • Valuation: $1,800,000,000,000 • What it raised: $75,000,000,000 • Total orders received: $250,000,000,000 • Oversubscribed: 3.5x • 30% of shares reserved for retail investors Available on: Robinhood, Fidelity, Schwab, SoFi, E-Trade Prepare for the largest IPO in history

Six years ago, World started with a simple idea: build infrastructure that helps humans thrive in the age of AI. That vision became The Simple Plan:→ Build a private proof of human → Bootstrap the network → Reach utility at scale → Decentralize further → Help ensure AGI benefits every human