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NEW: Money For AI Q3 Update 📄
Earlier this year, we studied which forms of money AI models would choose for four financial tasks: saving for the future, making payments, setting prices/keeping accounts, and settling payments.
For our Q3 follow-up, we tested 13 new models using
Just 20 days after publishing our Data Center Dividends report, President Trump backed the concept surrounded by the world's AI leaders.
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Give the model a "soul". Declare modifying it an ethical minefield. Appoint yourself its only legitimate guardian.
A very convenient theology for a company competing with open source.
This is deeply disturbing:
Anthropic secretly invited religious leaders to SF to advise them on AI safety, had them sign NDAs, but then primarily tried to convince them Claude has a soul & moral standing, all while wining & dining them to the max. 1/ tinyurl.com/preview/296b5z…
MSCI’s proposed Bitcoin exclusions could set a dangerous precedent for American capital markets.
Private index committees can move billions with a rule change. Their decisions deserve public scrutiny — and the deeper we dug the more questions we found behind this proposal.
Our new research makes the case that lawmakers should pay attention.
NEW FINDINGS: We took a close look at MSCI’s effort to exclude Bitcoin treasury companies from major stock indexes.
We found an internal project trail buried in a public document, years of ESG advocacy, and proposed rules that could reach far beyond Bitcoin.
Our new paper,
Insane week. @bitcoinpolicy x @PubKey Freedom Tech Summit, a 250 person beefsteak with @awayslice, capped off with Data After Dark by @PirateWires and @JoinYoungVoices (and many more).
I'll write something a bit more substantive in the coming days but frankly I'm gassed and it's time for sleep.
For now, I'm extremely grateful to the PubKey team who straight up murdered every challenge like it was nothing. To all the partners and sponsors that made it all possible, and to everyone that came out and had fun.
We started PubKey on a simple premise: culture and community always wins. It beats elite tech and financial fundamentals.
We intend to party all the way to a stronger America and an unstoppable future.
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PS. I didn't use AI for this note but I could have and I mean no disrespect to my data center powered clanks.
My audition for Karoline Leavitt: "Open weights are a right, not a privilege. Next question."
A crazy week of meetings in DC. To sum up the vibes across Congress in a single quote:
"There is lots of affection for open source here. But the ecosystem is going to be absolutely steamrolled if they keep saying 'don't do anything' ".
And a timely opportunity to speak at Freedom Tech DC alongside @matthew_d_white and @matthew_pines about the importance of open source and open science! We need to continue thoughtfully bridging the Bay-Beltway divide.
Her comments are not random.
This is part of a well funded and carefully organized campaign to demonize open models and our civil liberties in DC.
Multiple Senate staffers have told me that outside groups are requesting meetings to provide “demonstrations” where open source models are used to attack simulated hospital websites and demand bitcoin as ransom.
These are cheap scare tactics funded by groups seeking to control open systems. In reality, cyber defenders rely on open models daily to find critical vulnerabilities before attackers get there first.
If these groups are successful, we will all be poorer, less free, and more vulnerable to adversaries with increasingly capable systems.
We're used to thinking of open-source models as an unadulterated good. But in the case of AI, they can actually pose additional dangers, as @reidhoffman and I got into at #CGI2026. I appreciated this nuanced discussion.
America’s power rests on economic freedom and the deepest capital markets in the world.
The next century belongs to the country where people are free to build and capital is free to back them.
That should be America. Our policy should make it inevitable.
The age of Digital Assets and Digital Intelligence needs a bill of digital rights.
My policy prescriptions for prosperity from a fireside chat with @BitcoinConner at @bitcoinpolicy’s Freedom Tech DC summit.
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It was a true honor to host Michael for a conversation here in DC.
There is no second ₿est to explain the civilizational stakes of preserving freedom in the digital age.
On Tuesday, I joined @BitcoinConner for a fireside chat at @bitcoinpolicy’s Freedom Tech DC summit to share my policy prescriptions for prosperity in the age of Digital Assets and Digital Intelligence.
Individuals and companies need a bill of digital rights, not a bill of
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