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The AI Race Is About Sovereignty, Not Just Intelligence
Thinking Machines released Inkling with downloadable weights and a vision for customizable AI. The real race is over who controls the intelligence.

Newly declassified emails show the NSA deliberately filtered intelligence about Chinese election targeting from President Trump's Presidential Daily Brief in 2020. One November 19, 2020 NSA email reveals the agency "deliberately massaged" a pending briefing to avoid direct links to the election, and split a major pending report on Chinese election influence into 13 delayed pieces. Broader declassifications from ODNI confirm IC analysts took steps to de-emphasize or delay China-related election intelligence from reaching the president, including concerns over voter-registration database access in multiple states. Whether you think China's activity rose to the level of direct interference or stopped at influence operations, the fact that intelligence agencies were actively restructuring and delaying what the president was allowed to see about foreign election targeting is a story in itself. The question isn't just what China did or didn't do. It's who decided the president didn't need to know about it, and why.
Bitcoin developer @fjahr: "I've hardly ever seen this many people be this excited about contributing to open source in a single place." The state of Bitcoin open-source development is strong.
"$265 billion by TSMC, $250 billion by Micron, more than $500 billion of domestic semiconductor manufacturing coming home to America." Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on TSMC's latest $100 billion commitment.
Steve Keen fires back at O'Leary: "China's been far more effective at dragging people out of poverty AND is whipping America's industrial ass." O'Leary: "It's still the only country on Earth where people will risk their lives drowning under barbed wire in a river to get into."
O'Leary on AI warfare: "They will be tenderized constantly. Every data center built going forward in the US is going to have to give up at least 20% of its capacity to the US government."
"This is too dangerous for you and I to have in an unrestricted way. But they can have it in an unrestricted way." @jesseposner on the AI safety power grab.
The healthcare system isn't designed to keep costs low. It's designed to keep you from seeing the real price. Check out @JoinCrowdHealth tftc.io/crowdhealth/
A pill that costs $900 in America costs 30 cents in India. Same pill. Same manufacturer. A 299,900% markup.

NYDIG calls CLARITY Act "the most important forward catalyst" for digital assets.
OpenAI's compute chief on the bottleneck nobody talks about: a massive shortage of electricians, plumbers, and tradespeople to build these data centers. "They're very well-paying jobs that all of the hyperscalers and labs would actively hire for if you had the qualifications."
OpenAI's Head of Compute: "Every time we thought we had enough compute and could slow down, it always negatively surprises. We should not have slowed down. Demand far outstrips supply. Anything we bring online gets consumed immediately. Our biggest worry is the physical world doesn't move fast enough."
OpenAI's Head of Compute: "We believe the world of recursion is not that far where AI will design the systems it needs to train and run the next generation of AI, including chips."

Newly declassified emails show the NSA deliberately filtered intelligence about Chinese election targeting from President Trump's Presidential Daily Brief in 2020. One November 19, 2020 NSA email reveals the agency "deliberately massaged" a pending briefing to avoid direct links to the election, and split a major pending report on Chinese election influence into 13 delayed pieces. Broader declassifications from ODNI confirm IC analysts took steps to de-emphasize or delay China-related election intelligence from reaching the president, including concerns over voter-registration database access in multiple states. Whether you think China's activity rose to the level of direct interference or stopped at influence operations, the fact that intelligence agencies were actively restructuring and delaying what the president was allowed to see about foreign election targeting is a story in itself. The question isn't just what China did or didn't do. It's who decided the president didn't need to know about it, and why.
Bitcoin developer @fjahr: "I've hardly ever seen this many people be this excited about contributing to open source in a single place." The state of Bitcoin open-source development is strong.
"$265 billion by TSMC, $250 billion by Micron, more than $500 billion of domestic semiconductor manufacturing coming home to America." Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on TSMC's latest $100 billion commitment.
Steve Keen fires back at O'Leary: "China's been far more effective at dragging people out of poverty AND is whipping America's industrial ass." O'Leary: "It's still the only country on Earth where people will risk their lives drowning under barbed wire in a river to get into."
O'Leary on AI warfare: "They will be tenderized constantly. Every data center built going forward in the US is going to have to give up at least 20% of its capacity to the US government."
"This is too dangerous for you and I to have in an unrestricted way. But they can have it in an unrestricted way." @jesseposner on the AI safety power grab.
The healthcare system isn't designed to keep costs low. It's designed to keep you from seeing the real price. Check out @JoinCrowdHealth tftc.io/crowdhealth/
A pill that costs $900 in America costs 30 cents in India. Same pill. Same manufacturer. A 299,900% markup.

NYDIG calls CLARITY Act "the most important forward catalyst" for digital assets.
OpenAI's compute chief on the bottleneck nobody talks about: a massive shortage of electricians, plumbers, and tradespeople to build these data centers. "They're very well-paying jobs that all of the hyperscalers and labs would actively hire for if you had the qualifications."
OpenAI's Head of Compute: "Every time we thought we had enough compute and could slow down, it always negatively surprises. We should not have slowed down. Demand far outstrips supply. Anything we bring online gets consumed immediately. Our biggest worry is the physical world doesn't move fast enough."
OpenAI's Head of Compute: "We believe the world of recursion is not that far where AI will design the systems it needs to train and run the next generation of AI, including chips."
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