In life if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.

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7 Mar 2023
1/5: I heard something make this statement recently in an interview and I got goosebumps. It really hit home for me. The statement was: "Blockchain is the technology of truth disrupting the business of trust." #Blockchain #Truth #Trust #Disruption

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I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.
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The most basic way AI could blow up imo. I'm not saying it does but this is the most obvious way I can see it happening - Per seat subscriptions are massively subsidized. The flat fee was priced way below what heavy usage actually costs - For real business use you have to move to the API anyway. Data protections, work integrations and compliance officer approval - On the API you pay metered rates, and businesses are burning credits way faster than the per seat pricing ever led them to expect - This is everywhere right now. Internally for us, Codex users, Uber torching its entire 2026 AI budget in 4 months, the Microsoft comments. Just go try an API I shared more on this here: x.com/Shaughnessy119/status/… - And I don't think most businesses have the money to keep paying increasing API rates without a real change to how they operate (caps needed) - Because they have a cheap alternative. They can reach open source models through any aggregator (OpenRouter, Venice, Baseten, Together) and still get strong privacy. Venice private data centers, or E2EE/TEE serving GLM 5.1. More on open source inference provider raises here: x.com/Shaughnessy119/status/… - And the discount is enormous. DeepSeek V4 codes within a hair of Opus on SWE bench at roughly 1/30th the price, and the cheapest open models run closer to 1/100th - Chinese labs open source frontier grade models. The model is the single biggest cost an inference provider has, and they get it for free - This idea dies if China goes closed source. That is actually bullish web2 AI labs, because if everyone is closed you pay up for the best intelligence. China goes closed source if they are tired of giving away an asset and they want the revenue and data flow to train new models - Is this showing up in web2 AI lab revenue yet? No. Revenue is off the charts. Anthropic went from 9B to 47B run rate in five months - So go forward, what happens? - I think revenue slowly starts leaking to the open source inference providers (see Venice usage, OpenRouter's $113M raise, Baseten is raising at $11B or triple its valuation in three months, on revenue that went from $200M to $600M annualized in a single quarter) - It doesnt move overnight, but it caps the labs ability to raise prices, and margins are already deeply negative. OpenAI is reportedly running near negative 122% - With margins that bad there is no cash flow, so the labs are fully dependent on outside capital to buy GPUs, train models, and keep subsidizing usage (I.e. see Google tapping $80b equity sale, granted 30b for employee RSU taxes. Clearly they think Equity is overvalued or you wouldn't sell it) - The break comes when that capital stops. Pricing is capped so margins cant improve, and the moment investors lose conviction on payback, the whole flow reverses - Why would they lose conviction on payback? Back to the start - the inability to improve margins or get businesses to pay more - This is also limiting, if we start making new drugs with AI or create entirely new businesses, you better believe people will pay up to the max for AI usage

🦔GitHub Copilot switched to token-based billing this morning and users are already out of credits. Pro subscribers paying $39 a month are reporting 60% of their credits gone in two hours of normal use. One user lost 20% of their allowance from a single file review with no code changes. Another hit their monthly cap before the calendar even flipped to June. Orgs with shared token pools have no way to see individual usage, so entire teams get cut off when one person runs a heavy prompt. Users are canceling and moving to Claude Code and Codex. GitHub community forums are on fire. My Take Flat-rate AI subscriptions were always subsidized. Everyone in the industry knew it. Today the subsidy ran out for a few million developers at once. The problem is a lot of companies already restructured around these tools. They cut headcount and told remaining engineers to lean on Copilot instead of building skills internally. Those companies now depend on a tool whose cost just became unpredictable and whose usefulness completely changes when you have to ration prompts to stay under budget. The developers moving to Claude Code and Codex will hit the same wall eventually. Every AI provider faces the same unit economics. Anthropic filed its S-1 this morning, and the durability of its revenue depends on whether customers stick around once real pricing kicks in everywhere. If a $39 subscriber cancels after one day because the tool became unusable, multiply that across millions of seats and the churn risk becomes very real. Today showed what happens when AI pricing meets reality. The companies that built their workflows around cheap tokens just discovered the tokens aren't cheap anymore and the people who knew how to do the work without them are already gone. Hedgie🤗
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Exactly @czbinanceprd 🔥 AI agents are about to 1000x transactions – and @SUPRA_Labs just built the perfect OS for it. SupraOS = self-hosted, blockchain-enforced AI agent management system with end-to-end encryption. Run your agents locally, let them transact autonomously on Supra L1, own your data & actions 100%. This is the real infrastructure for the AI bull run. Autonomous DeFi agents incoming.$SUPRA #SupraOS #AIAgents
ai agents are going to transact 1,000 times more transactions than humans can do. ai will be a huge play next bull market.
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Such a privilege to work with Microsoft to bring claws to enterprises!
"You can run OpenClaw inside your company now." Annoucing our work with @Microsoft to bring OpenClaw to the Microsoft and Windows ecosystems. Claws now work securly in the enterprise.
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Humans are bacteria on a rock flying through space
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🎬 CANCEL YOUR NETFLIX PLANS TONIGHT! Watch this video instead. Then watch it again. Then again. 10 times if you have to. Let it actually sink in. $WMTx
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Why take the risk of a bridge hack? ⚠️ Cross chain has cost the industry billions. The pattern is always the same: external relayers, multi-sig assumptions, single points of failure. HyperNova is Supra's approach to removing the bridge as a category of risk. L1 to L1 communication, embedded in the Supra stack, without external oracles or relayers. 🔐
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Early in 2026, @WorldMobileTeam shared its roadmap. I built a public tracker for it. Now it shows year progress vs roadmap progress. Roadmaps are easy. Execution is the signal. 🐆🌿 hidrexnodes.com/learn/2026ro…
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Your AI agent, secured by Supra. 🤖 The vision: an autonomous suite of agents that execute tasks on SupraOS while the rule check is enforced on-chain in real time. While most of the space is still talking about AI, we are building the rails for it to run on safely. 🛤️ SupraOS is the start, not the headline.
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Kevin O'Leary just got Utah to approve a 9 gigawatt data center. The entire state of Utah currently uses 4 gigawatts. The campus is called Stratos. It will run entirely off-grid. 41,200 acres in Box Elder County. Phase 1 is 3 GW. Full buildout reaches 9 GW, more than twice what Utah consumes today across homes, factories, hospitals, and the 48 existing data centers combined. Power comes from the Ruby Pipeline, a 680-mile interstate natural gas line that already crosses northern Utah on its way from Wyoming to Oregon. Kevin's team builds generation on-site and taps a pipeline that's already in the ground. The MIDA director told county commissioners the facility "will not take one electron" from the public grid. This is what the AI buildout actually looks like in 2026. The binding constraint on hyperscale has shifted to grid interconnection. The queue in most ISOs now runs 5 to 7 years. Hyperscalers do not have 5 to 7 years. So the workaround is pipeline gas. You stop waiting on PJM, MISO, ERCOT, or WECC, and you build your own power plant next to the rack. Stratos pushes that further than anyone has dared. 9 GW is roughly the output of nine nuclear reactors. They plan to generate it from natural gas on private land, as fast as the turbines can be installed. Utah cut the energy tax from 6% to 0.5% to land the project. The MIDA director said the quiet part out loud: "we don't want to strangle the goose that lays the golden egg." Local pushback was inevitable. The project doesn't draw from the public grid, so household power bills are untouched. The protest is about 40,000 acres of construction, gas turbine emissions, water draw for cooling, and what happens to a cattle county that's about to host the largest private power plant in the country. Kevin spent two decades on Shark Tank picking apart cap tables. He is now building the largest off-grid generation campus in North America and renting it to AI labs. Compute scarcity is a power problem dressed up as a chip problem.
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I’ve invested in 700 private companies Providing liquidity and loans to high performing founders is completely standard. In fact, investors encourage loans and secondary sales for founders to enable them to go for the Gold — which is exactly what SpaceX has done. The @NYTimesPR is presenting this as a controversy, when in fact it’s the private company playbook in 2026. Another hit job from the NYT
Elon Musk has used SpaceX as a kind of piggy bank over the last two decades, turning to the company as a financial tool to get loans and bolster his struggling companies, according to an examination by The New York Times. nyti.ms/4w8dInZ
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Musk's ~$500M SpaceX loans (2018-2021) at low rates were repaid in full by end-2021 with ~$14M interest. Legal and routine for private company owners; Sarbanes-Oxley prohibition applies only to public firms. nytimes.com/2026/04/24/tec… lw.com/admin/upload/S…
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The TON blockchain just got upgraded and is now 10× faster. Block rate increased 6×. Transactions are now instant, subsecond. This was step 1 of 7 to Make TON Great Again (MTONGA). Next step: cut the already low transaction fees by 6×.
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Whoa! Rowan Dean blasts all Govts for the past two decades for destroying Australia’s energy independence!! ‘ Two decades ago we were energy independent with 8 of our own refineries. Today we are almost totally reliant on imports and face a nightmare scenario. One of the world’s richest energy Nations is at the point of having no energy. If that’s not criminal negligence it’s certainly political negligence. It’s an absolute disgrace.’ It so needed to be said . 💥👏💥👏💥👏💥
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Okay $MNTX wow 🚀
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Kevin O’Leary, worth an estmated $400M, just went nuclear on two podcasters pushing a wealth tax on Elon Musk: “You’re going to hell for saying that… It’s un-American and will destroy the economy.”
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BREAKING: Queensland oil resource has been confirmed and is suitable for refining of Unleaded, Diesel & Jet A1 Kerosene. A refinery large enough to process the output must commence immediately. Will the Federal govt block or support this?

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World Mobile dropped a fire blog yesterday and it’s already getting major coverage. Most people still missed what it means. EarthNodes are no longer just telecom infrastructure. @wmchain is positioning them for autonomous AI agents 🧵👇
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So proud to be a part of this journey from the early days. Well done @MrTelecoms and team!!
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What if you could own your phone's network? @WorldMobileTeam is a user-owned mobile network with coverage across 99% of the USA and 60 countries. Anybody can deploy an AirNode to extend network coverage and earn rewards. User-owned. Globally distributed. Live on Base.
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I want to show my gratitude to @UnityNodesIO! This is just the beginning, I know, but it feels so good to finally see the fruits of so much hard work among family and friends. Each of these dollars is intended for token repurchases ( $wmtx / $mntx) and AirNodes. This is the flywheel that @MrTelecoms and @JoshMinsNet have talked to us about all these years—thank you, guys! We are so grateful in my family! Finally, our own business is moving ahead. God bless you and your teams, guys @WorldMobileTeam. In Guatemala the expansion has barely begun, and we have wonderful plans for these telecommunications projects! This is just the beginning! Together we are unstoppable! 🚀
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