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The DOJ Sent Samourai's Developers to Prison After FinCEN Said They Weren't Money Transmitters

The State Wants a Seat at the AI Cap Table
OpenAI may offer the US government a stake in the company. The AI industry is moving onto wartime footing while bitcoin remains outside every cap table.
RABBIT HOLE RECAP #416: BITCOIN IS THE BEST MONEY WITH @ODELLXYZ AND @MARTYBENT x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Bitcoin paying for taxis, steaks, and coffee in Kenya over Lightning @tando_me.

K Wave Media fully exits Bitcoin treasury after selling its 88 BTC to repay $6M in debt.
Throwback to the Winklevoss twins trying to orange pill Dave Portnoy.
Snowden: "You see China and the United States becoming more alike... surveillance, control of money flows, control of communications, real name policies... Then you hear Elon Musk saying X is going to be an everything app. These are things that should really alarm us." x.com/primal_app/sta…
Want to optimize the electricity you use at home with bitcoin mining? We put together a free playbook with @exergy_ that walks you through the entire setup. From hardware selection to installation to optimizing your heat output. tftc.io/exergyplaybook/

US hiring plans are down 84% since 2020 YTD 2026 is up 10% but strip out tech and hiring plans are actually down 1%

OpenAI just offered the US government a 5% stake worth ~$43 billion. This follows the government converting CHIPS Act grants into a 9.9% stake in Intel and taking equity positions in 9 quantum companies.

Fable 5 is back but nerfed and metered. Anthropic added a new government-negotiated safety filter that blocks the specific jailbreak Amazon researchers found. If a request gets flagged, you get bumped down to the weaker Opus 4.8 instead. They admit the filter will catch harmless requests too and they're "working to refine" it. Biology and chemistry classifiers are also still overly broad, triggering fallbacks on basic questions. Paid users get Fable 5 for up to 50% of weekly usage through July 7, then it moves to usage credits. The most capable model available to the public now comes with government-approved safety filters, an admission those filters will overcorrect, and usage caps. This is what frontier AI looks like going forward.

We spent $20,000 building an AI agent (Martin) that helps us run our company. Most know they need to implement AI in their business but get overwhelmed by the hype on X and YouTube. We're launching the TFTC Roundtable to get you off zero. tftc.io/roundtable
Adam Back on Bitcoin Standard Treasury ($BSTR): "Trying to create a relatively conservative return on Bitcoin using capital market strategies. We would do things differently compared to other treasury companies."
Palantir CEO Alex Karp's full interview on CNBC: "We have so much more demand than we can supply" as AI platform wins with enterprises.
RABBIT HOLE RECAP #416: BITCOIN IS THE BEST MONEY WITH @ODELLXYZ AND @MARTYBENT x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Bitcoin paying for taxis, steaks, and coffee in Kenya over Lightning @tando_me.

K Wave Media fully exits Bitcoin treasury after selling its 88 BTC to repay $6M in debt.
Throwback to the Winklevoss twins trying to orange pill Dave Portnoy.
Snowden: "You see China and the United States becoming more alike... surveillance, control of money flows, control of communications, real name policies... Then you hear Elon Musk saying X is going to be an everything app. These are things that should really alarm us." x.com/primal_app/sta…
Want to optimize the electricity you use at home with bitcoin mining? We put together a free playbook with @exergy_ that walks you through the entire setup. From hardware selection to installation to optimizing your heat output. tftc.io/exergyplaybook/

US hiring plans are down 84% since 2020 YTD 2026 is up 10% but strip out tech and hiring plans are actually down 1%

OpenAI just offered the US government a 5% stake worth ~$43 billion. This follows the government converting CHIPS Act grants into a 9.9% stake in Intel and taking equity positions in 9 quantum companies.

Fable 5 is back but nerfed and metered. Anthropic added a new government-negotiated safety filter that blocks the specific jailbreak Amazon researchers found. If a request gets flagged, you get bumped down to the weaker Opus 4.8 instead. They admit the filter will catch harmless requests too and they're "working to refine" it. Biology and chemistry classifiers are also still overly broad, triggering fallbacks on basic questions. Paid users get Fable 5 for up to 50% of weekly usage through July 7, then it moves to usage credits. The most capable model available to the public now comes with government-approved safety filters, an admission those filters will overcorrect, and usage caps. This is what frontier AI looks like going forward.

We spent $20,000 building an AI agent (Martin) that helps us run our company. Most know they need to implement AI in their business but get overwhelmed by the hype on X and YouTube. We're launching the TFTC Roundtable to get you off zero. tftc.io/roundtable
Adam Back on Bitcoin Standard Treasury ($BSTR): "Trying to create a relatively conservative return on Bitcoin using capital market strategies. We would do things differently compared to other treasury companies."
Palantir CEO Alex Karp's full interview on CNBC: "We have so much more demand than we can supply" as AI platform wins with enterprises.
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