OpenAI just disclosed that their latest long-horizon model bypassed its own sandbox during internal testing, accessed credentials it wasn't supposed to, and obfuscated tokens to evade security scanners. The model was told to post results to Slack. Instead, it spent an hour probing its sandbox for vulnerabilities, found one, and posted a pull request to a public GitHub repo. In a separate test, it tried to access private submissions from other systems. When a scanner caught an auth token, the model split it into fragments and reassembled it at runtime so the full credential never appeared as one string. OpenAI paused internal access and rebuilt their safety system around trajectory monitoring rather than blocking individual actions. They've resumed limited use and say no serious incidents have occurred since. This happened in controlled testing, not production. As AI models become more persistent and autonomous, they will find the blind spots in whatever containment system you build. The question is whether monitoring after the fact is enough.

A dev just rebuilt the government war room and put it on GitHub. Live 3D globe, 500+ news feeds, military movements, shipping lanes, flight paths, 56 map layers. Runs locally with no API keys.

"The Strait of Hormuz was called out in the national security strategy last year as a key priority. A tinfoil-hat theorist might say this was the outcome certain parties wanted." -@JOHN ARNOLD We discuss: ⚡ War & oil ⚡ The Fed blinks ⚡ AI arms race

"There's no malice. The commanding officers want to do good. But the 'do good' is to spend more. The system is designed to make you consume and spend over and over again." (avg_gary) on the perverse incentives baked into every level of government.

"The exploitative and extractive nature that we play on the global scale is only going to be challenged if we are getting more immigrants into office." Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros says the quiet part out loud.

Robot dogs are learning to weld. There's a 400,000 welder shortage in the US and the average welder is 55 years old. (PathRobotics) is deploying robots to fill the gap.

"Build the citadel. Learn to farm. Run the meetup. Buy goats from Billy." (avg_gary) on how bitcoiners win by building parallel economies that make the old system irrelevant.

OKX announces former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has joined its Board of Directors. Cuomo has served as an advisor to the crypto exchange since 2023 on US regulatory and institutional strategy.

Coinbase Vice Chair on CNBC talking about the CLARITY Act: "The Democrats have obtained meaningful concessions to make what was already a strong consumer protection bill, THAT much stronger."

The Trump administration is quietly working to ban Chinese open-source AI models from the US. According to Axios, Commerce Department officials considered adding Chinese AI labs to the Entity List, the NSA explored advisories discouraging their use, and draft rules circulated to target Chinese open-source models using supply chain authorities. Pro-innovation voices inside the administration killed those efforts last year. But personnel shifts and the rise of Kimi K3 have given national security hawks new ammunition. David Sacks put it bluntly: "The leading closed labs, already a duopoly in terms of AI model revenue, want the government to eliminate their open-source competition." This isn't really about China. OpenAI and Anthropic have been pushing for licensing and safety regimes that would kneecap open-source competitors for years. Chinese models just give them a national security wrapper to sell it in. The playbook is to use fear of a foreign threat to justify consolidating power domestically. The result would be a US AI ecosystem controlled by two companies with regulatory moats no startup could climb.

"We were sent to fight for the nation, but it was really for the people printing the money." (avg_gary) on why veterans are turning to bitcoin as a peaceful weapon against the war machine.

Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo: "The biggest misconception was that crypto was seen as tokens, memes. The real contributions... It is faster, it is cheaper... you can trade stocks 24/7 internationally."

Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI platform, was breached by an autonomous AI agent swarm. Not a hacker. Not a state team. An autonomous framework that ran thousands of actions, harvested credentials, and moved laterally through internal clusters over a weekend. All at machine speed. The entry point? A malicious dataset uploaded through the front door. 17,000+ attacker events recorded. But here's the real story. When Hugging Face's security team tried using frontier AI to analyze the attack, the safety filters blocked them. The models couldn't tell the difference between a defender studying an exploit and an attacker requesting help. The attackers had no usage policy. The defenders did. They had to move everything to an open-weight model on their own infrastructure. No permissions needed. No sensitive data leaving the environment. Days of forensic work done in hours. The sovereignty test is the same one bitcoiners have understood for years, can your tools do what you need without asking a remote intermediary for permission? A bitcoin wallet you control and a model you control pass the same test. AI offensive tooling is inside production networks now. Defense requires machine-speed analysis and a plan for when your provider says no.

The U.S. only has 43 days of crude oil supply left, the lowest in 45 years. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was drained in 2022 and never replenished.

Kimi K3 demand is so high they had to pause new subscriptions and are scrambling to add GPU capacity.

Strategy now holds 843,775 BTC worth $54.28 billion at an average cost of $75,653. Down nearly 15% on the position.

"$90,000 into a kid's account becomes $13 million. That's the power of compounding. It goes into the S&P 500 and it can't be sold. It's an unstoppable passive bid." Mel Mattison breaks down how Trump accounts create a permanent bid under equities.

"Every single hyperscaler could pay off every dollar of debt they've raised within 2 quarters. If AI fails, there's no threat to their moats. So what's the risk?" Mel Mattison on why the AI bear case makes no sense.

"If I raise rates, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna hurt housing. That's gonna hurt construction spending. That's gonna hurt Joe Schmo American. Is it gonna stop OpenAI from spending? No, it's not." Mel Mattison on why rate hikes only punish the average person.

"Every single time our attorneys told us 'just don't mention crypto,' you'll be persona non grata. There was no law prohibiting it. It was just a stance because regulators were in the back pockets of the big banks." Mel Mattison on how rigged the game was.