Big news: @googlecloud is partnering with @selfxyz to help bring a more human-first internet to life. Together, we’re making it easier for developers to build Web3 and AI apps that are safer, more ethical, and rooted in real human identity — not bots or bad actors.

.@selfxyz super slick, use your ID/passport (utilizes NFC bar code) for AI-proof verification. Perfect for @claudeai verification.

1. if transacting with superintelligent models outside of the boundaries of a lab becomes difficult due to national security / ai safety concerns and so on, it will mean the Coasean boundaries of the labs will grow to encompass all interesting industry, creating a truly cyberpunk chaebol-capitalism type of future, where the goverment sort of runs them but they also sort of run the government 2. as if there weren't already enough reasons to break up your family, leave your home, the Zone of Thought will increase the attractiveness of migrating to try and have your child on american soil, so they can have 1000x the effective brain power of people born elsewhere 3. every country should probably try and either work towards a new ai security pact with the americans immediately or pool every ounce of national resources to try and create their own ASI labs lest you become complete intellectual, economic, and moral vassals to the united states of america and the output byproducts its ASIs (you wont even get to talk to them). if they succeeded (big if) this will imply a more global race and more risk factors than was previously implied by the formerly only "beating china" narrative -- but many will prefer it to the superintelligent monopolar value lock-in 4. the other alternative is to keep the tension between safety and concentration of power at the top of mind and for the government/labs to push for solving it, rather than instrumentalizing all other values to be subservient to minimizing ai harms. insofar as safety means defending properties of the fragile world we like, the diffuse nature of power is one of those properties 5. historically the americans have been really quite Benign about their global public goods hegemony despite the ability to extract significantly more rents than they do, and it makes it easy for people of all stripes to fight for america rather than under it. we probably don't have to, but i hope america overall works towards export promotion of american models rather than export control

There’s never been a better time to address the blind spots between AI & humans. Our ecosystem has the responsibility to design an approach that’s humane and sustainable. Moving fast doesn’t always need to break things. In this case, we’re fixing things before it’s too late.

Dear @DarioAmodei & @AnthropicAI team, Claude with Fable 5 was the best software product I have ever used. Losing access was a gut punch - and I know I'm far from alone. I want to help bring it back, fast. At @selfxyz we've built the missing piece to make Anthropic compliant with the government's directive: a way to gate Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to verified US citizens. Self.xyz lets Claude users create and share a cryptographic proof of US citizenship by NFC-scanning the biometric chip in their US passport. It's privacy-preserving, independently audited, and already trusted by major companies at scale. My team is ready to work directly with yours, starting today, to wire this in. Everyone here in the US wants their Fable 5 access back. Let's give it to them. Rene

Is Self Enterprise the new Claude Cowork...? @selfxyz has just unveiled its official 'Self Enterprise' model, designed to support end-to-end identity management for some of the world's biggest businesses. Entirely versatile in nature, Self Enterprise comes with no fewer than three key pre-configured workspaces, spanning... - Proof-of-Humanity - Age Verification - Pre-KYC Screening "The result is end-to-end identity management that lowers onboarding costs, keeps fraud out, and meets compliance demands, all from one place" Self serves as the identity layer within @Celo’s global payment stack, and is already trusted by major organisations like @Google, @opera and some 15 million individual users.

To learn more about Self Enterprise and how your business can benefit from a customizable suite of privacy-first solutions, read the announcement blog: self.xyz/blog/introducing-se…

Self's @claudeai Cowork moment is here. Self Enterprise makes it even easier for businesses to interact with private identity, proof-of-human, and agentic solutions. Explore Self's infrastructure for businesses, from Proof-of-Human to Pre-KYC, today: dashboard.self.xyz

“While Silicon Valley fights over token packages, the rest of the world is being priced out of the agentic economy before it has even arrived.” Self’s identity infra makes Universal Basic Compute possible at scale, creating the conditions for prosperity in the agentic era 🙌

Who's at Bloomberg's AI conference in SF today? Come say hi to Birju and me and talk agentic identity, commerce, proof of human and all things self.xyz

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Self co-founder @marek_ and @googlecloud Head of Strategy, Web3 @RichJWidmann took the stage at @Celo’s @Consensus2026 event to discuss the first-of-its-kind stablecoin distribution platform, coming soon. USA₮ for real, verified humans coming soon.

275 million students' data was held ransom - the largest educational data breach in history. When platforms store everything they collect, it becomes a target. There's a better way. Self verifies identity without sharing or exposing underlying personal data.

Last week, cosmetics company Rituals suffered a data breach, exposing customers' full names, phone numbers, home addresses, and dates of birth. Why does a skincare loyalty app need all of your private information? It doesn't. Now, hackers have it.

Six years ago today, Celo mainnet launched on Earth Day! 🥳 The @Ethereum Layer 2 built for the real world has processed 1.27B transactions, bringing fast, low-cost stablecoin txs to 600K global users every day What does this look like in practice? Here's a better look ↓

A new dark web tool, JINKUSU CAM, breaks live video KYC in real time: face swap, voice clone, and virtual camera, all running together. The problem is structural. Liveness detection is a model, and generative models are beating it. Until now. Self solves this.

One thing we've learned about agents: they're bad at keeping secrets. Self ensures a real human signs off on actions, without compromising user privacy.