"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.

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

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."

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TYSWqf36gE

Japan's 2-year government bond yield hit 1.975%, the highest since 1995. It was under 1% a year ago.

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

AI + 1.8 TB of bitcoin data + a 10-line prompt = a 3-minute documentary on bitcoin's history. Alex Thorn let it cook.

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.”

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.”

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