Travis Kalanick on the surprising hurdles of physical automation: "The hardest thing we do on food is actually put a bowl in a paper bag. Paper bags are not as standardized as you think... it's hard."

The Japanese Yen just hit its weakest level against the dollar in 40 years.

Tucker Carlson name-drops $GME in his latest "Energy Crisis" video, citing it as an example of stock market manipulation.

Kimi K3 just discovered a 0day in the latest Redis server and exploited it in 27 minutes using 32 agents. Then it found a zero-click arbitrary command execution in Telegram Desktop and iOS. AI models are now autonomously finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure faster than human security teams can patch them.

You can't have capitalism when the money is corrupted. We don't live in a truly capitalist society when money, the most important tool for coordinating capitalistic activity, is centrally managed. The price of credit is a policy variable, the federal government borrows trillions without an immediate market test, and systemically connected firms expect rescue when their bets go bad. Your local contractor can't summon the Federal Reserve when a project fails. But Treasury, banks, and the largest financial institutions operate under completely different expectations. Once everyone knows the backstop exists, behavior changes before a rescue ever arrives. Politicians spend more because the cost is hidden in another debt auction. Banks take more risk because a big enough failure becomes a public problem. Asset owners benefit first when new liquidity hits financial markets. Wage earners and savers meet the consequences later through inflation, higher asset prices, and the erosion of purchasing power. Gen Z inherited this system. They didn't grow up watching losses clear and bad firms disappear. They grew up watching asset prices levitate after each crisis while the cost of basic life moved further out of reach. Then we told them capitalism was responsible. They were given socialism-light, told it was capitalism, and asked to defend it. The answer is to restore the constraint that makes capitalism honest: bad investments must fail, and no institution can possess a permanent claim on someone else's purchasing power. Bitcoin is money the state cannot issue and collateral the central bank cannot dilute. Don't wait for Washington to restore capitalism. Exit the politically managed credit system one balance sheet decision at a time.

"The US has structural fiscal deficits locked in by demographics and political polarization. The Fed has limited tools here. The reason hawkish monetary policy worked in the 70s is because debt to GDP was 35%. Now it's over 100%." - @Lyn Alden

"My estimate is that we're in the bottom decile of the market cycle. The AI trade has sucked a lot of the oxygen out of the room for many other assets, including likely Bitcoin." - @Lyn Alden

Bloomberg Intelligence gives the CLARITY Act a 60% chance of passing, calling it “at the one-yard line” after positive comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

"Capital gains tax should be 40%, not 15%. Labor should pay less. Capital should pay more. That would be a fair tax policy." - david friedberg

"The key metric for America should be to convert 2% of Americans from labor to capital each year. If that would be the KPI for the next 250 years, we would crush it." - david friedberg

"If you had put all the extra money in Social Security since 1982 into the S&P 500, the trust fund would have an extra $37 trillion today." david friedberg on the policy failure that left the bottom 50% behind.

"Foreign adversaries, Marxists, national security hawks, effective altruists, and frontier labs angling for regulatory capture. All rowing in the same direction on restricting AI. I don't even think they're working together." - Conner Brown

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the Clarity Act is ready for a full Senate floor vote, calling it a bipartisan breakthrough that would establish the first comprehensive federal framework for digital assets.

"Napoleon would go back to the tent after the most intense fighting in history and dictate a letter about building a bridge in rural France. That is what these agents allow us to do. Multiply human agency." - Conner Brown

Chinese AI models now outpace U.S. ones in token usage on OpenRouter, per Bloomberg. Weekly global share shows China's models topping American peers for the first time in 2026, driven by growing adoption of cost-effective options.

"Bitcoin is probably the most liquidity sensitive asset on the planet. Liquidity is losing momentum." Michael Howell on why Bitcoin and gold are already signaling the cycle has turned.

"I don't believe there's a four-year cycle in Bitcoin. I think there's a 5 to 6 year liquidity cycle." Michael Howell says the cycle is driven by average global debt maturity, not halvings.

"We were the first to put all the pieces together. The Party for Socialism and Liberation are functioning as important organizers in a lot of these debates." Conner Brown on tracing foreign-linked dark money behind anti-data center activism across America.

Coinbase settled its FOIA lawsuit against the SEC. The SEC will pay $150,000 and overhaul its record-retention policies. The SEC's own inspector general found that close to a year of former Chair Gary Gensler's text messages were wiped after the agency reset his phone before making a backup. The destroyed window covered the FTX collapse and the agency's peak enforcement campaign against crypto exchanges. 38% of the recovered texts touched agency business. The irony is hard to miss. Under Gensler, the SEC levied more than $1 billion in fines on financial firms for losing employee messages.

.@jack mallers' letter to Strike investors after stepping down from Twenty One. "The moment you blame someone else for your outcome, you hand them the power to define it." "Strike isn't for sale. Its mission isn't for sale. The only thing that changes for Strike investors is that Strike now gets all of me."