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Agentic economy emerging: AI agents getting own wallets, transacting autonomously at scale
Coinbase reports 100M agent transactions ($50M value) via Base protocol wallets; agents cannot use traditional banking (KYC, slow rails) so crypto/stablecoins become native payment layer. A…
Compute shortage acute: Google renting 110K GPUs from SpaceX/xAI at $11B/yr despite own TPUs
Bottleneck has shifted from model design to physical infrastructure. Even hyperscalers with custom silicon (Google TPUs) cannot meet CUDA demand. SpaceX monetizing xAI data center capacity;…
Bitcoin as digital gold thesis intact; quantum risk manageable via BIP-360; stablecoins for agent economy
Armstrong: Bitcoin bottomed at $60K, long-term store-of-value thesis holds (70% still treat as risk asset, shifting over time). Quantum threat certain but not imminent; Bitcoin core develop…
Model depreciation accelerating: 80% workloads on 99% cheaper models within 18 months
Armstrong predicts intelligence demand infinite but costs falling faster than Moore's Law. Value shifts from model ownership to application layer (harnesses like Codex/Claude Code). OpenAI…
SpaceX building orbital Dyson swarm: AI1 satellites, Gigasat factory, lunar manufacturing vision
SpaceX transitioning from launch/Starlink to civilizational compute infrastructure. AI1 satellites (150kW, 70kW/ton) deployable via Starship; Gigasat factory vertically integrates solar/com…
Epigenetic reprogramming reaching clinic: New Limit $435M raise, Life Biosciences dosing OSK, LEV debate
Partial reprogramming (Yamanaka factors without cell type change) demonstrating functional age reversal in human cells. New Limit's AI-driven screening accelerating candidate discovery; fir…
Anthropic retakes lead with Fable 5/Mythos 5 via aggressive RLVR on long-range reasoning
Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI on benchmarks through intensive reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (game-playing, spatial reasoning, large codebases). Mythos (less inhibited) vs Fabl…
US government equity stakes in frontier AI labs debated: quasi-nationalization vs toxic incentives
Trump floating 10% government equity in OpenAI/Anthropic; Bernie Sanders proposing 50% transfer. Speakers debate: government ownership creates toxic incentives (politicized capital allocati…
Base editing embryos demonstrated: PCSK9 and hemoglobin editing in vitro, jurisdiction arbitrage inevitable
Columbia researchers successfully base-edited PCSK9 (LDL) and HBG (hemoglobin) genes in embryos. Base editing (single-nucleotide swaps, low error) superior to CRISPR. 80% Americans support…