The White House unveiled https://America.gov, designed by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia.

OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 starts today in San Francisco.

Jeff Park on why Anthropic must not IPO: "You cannot argue that your technology demands sovereign-level control while also demanding retail capital. That is, in fact, the definition of state capitalism."

A California bank failed on Friday, the sixth US bank failure of 2026. The 10-year Treasury yield is at 5.24%.

Gold fell 3.4% on Monday, a nearly 3-standard-deviation move. A normal distribution says a drop that size should happen about once every two years. h/t (KobeissiLetter)

"I don't think we should go build every product category. I don't think we should go try to compete with all of our customers. I don't think we should try to subsume the entire economy." Sam Altman says OpenAI should be a platform, not a product company. One interface, one API, and let a hundred million businesses build on top of it.

"We are in a new phase where safety, security, alignment, really thinking about these things, not just at deployment time, but all the way back at development time. This is critical. It must happen." Greg Brockman on OpenAI entering what they're calling "the AGI era."

Bitcoin's entire unspent supply mapped out.

Guy gives his AI agent a rambling voice prompt while driving in the rain and it produces a full polished explainer video with diagrams and narration.

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Top U.S. advisor Ric Edelman recommends up to 40% Bitcoin allocation for clients. “A 1% or 2% allocation is way insufficient. We need to increase our allocations.” “We’ve got the market performance on our side.”

Polymarket launches 15-minute Bitcoin up/down markets on its US app, letting users bet on BTC’s short-term direction every 15 minutes.

Hunter Biden on why $LAPTOP crashed 98% minutes after launch: “It was larger than the market cap of BlackRock.” He said a $6 purchase in the first seconds “increased the market cap by 5%,” calling it “a completely artificial obviously, and wildly, wildly inflated price.”

River reports the number of public companies holding Bitcoin grew throughout the bear market.

UK Chancellor John Healey on Nigel Farage at Labour conference: “He wants you to think he’s a man of the people but when it comes to the economy he’s Liz Truss with a Bitcoin account.”

Jensen Huang on AI safety: "We all need to hope it's an engineering problem. If it's not an engineering problem, it's not solvable."

Tether has frozen nearly $550 million in USDT linked to Iran's Central Bank and sanctions evasion networks in 2026. In April, Tether froze more than $344 million across two TRON addresses at the direction of OFAC and U.S. law enforcement. The next day, OFAC formally added those addresses to the Specially Designated Nationals list under the Central Bank of Iran's entry. In July, another $130 million was frozen across four additional wallets as Treasury expanded the designation. Tether says the combined Iran-linked total for the year is approximately $550 million. The actions fall within a broader escalation of U.S. sanctions pressure on Iran. In August, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced "Operation Economic Outcast," targeting Iran's financial lifelines including digital assets, gold, aviation, and shipping, with more than 60 entities, individuals, and vessels sanctioned. Tether says it now works with 340+ law enforcement agencies across 67 countries and has helped freeze more than $4.9 billion in assets globally, including $2.4 billion connected to U.S. authorities.

Tether Has Supported Nearly $550 Million in Iran-Linked USD₮ Freezes as U.S. Expands Sanctions Campaign - Tether.io

Tether’s cooperation with U.S. and international authorities has supported more than 2,900 investigations globally, including over 1,600 involvin...

TFTC 796 w/ (yeahfortommy): "The ability to own your intelligence stack is the most important technological innovation we've ever faced as humans." We discuss: ⚡ What Big AI really does with your data ⚡ Owning your full intelligence stack ⚡ The coming fight over model lock-in

Middle East crude exports: back to 94% of pre-war levels Iran's Kharg Island: near zero

Google Brain founder Andrew Ng: "Prompting will die in 7 months. Harnesses are what's replacing it."