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New investigation from @_whitneywebb and @markgoodw_in on Unlimited Hangout. Behind OpenAI's Stargate Argentina is a company called Sur Energy, led by Emiliano Kargieman, dubbed "Argentina's Elon Musk." His previous venture, the satellite surveillance firm Satellogic, has deep ties to Palantir, the Trump administration, and U.S. intelligence agencies, and "is due to enable within the next year what was once Palantir's most implausible ambition: predictive policing of the entire planet in real time via AI-powered satellite surveillance, i.e. total information awareness." Milei's government has rolled out the red carpet for Silicon Valley. The Financial Times reported he "invite[d] AI to free itself" and proposed allowing "AI-run companies with no humans involved to operate in his country." One adviser in his inner circle, Demian Riedel, "has controversially argued that humans are, in fact, Argentina's biggest problem, particularly in Argentine Patagonia, because they present an obstacle to AI infrastructure and development in the region." Kargieman himself has admitted "Stargate Argentina is not about bringing jobs to locals, but about generating dollars." He's also suggested OpenAI may not be the ultimate end user, hinting the AI firm could collapse under "the inevitable popping of an AI debt bubble." unlimitedhangout.com/2026/08/invest…

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A demo of @blocks' newly released open-source app Berd, which lets solo developers build, customize, and run multiple AI agents from a single desktop workspace.

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Amazon is reportedly destroying rare books to use as AI training data. 404 Media confirmed it by placing a tracking device in a rare book that ended up at an Amazon facility in Las Vegas.

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ChatGPT can now read, search, and reply to your Apple Messages directly from your Mac.

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IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol says even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens today, it could take up to two years for oil and gas production to return to pre-war levels. "We should be prepared for rather volatile energy markets for some time to come."

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CFTC Chair Selig says the agency will build its own crypto market structure if the CLARITY Act fails. He directed staff to “begin exploring rules to codify a CFTC market structure for crypto assets,” potentially allowing leveraged trading under federal oversight.

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CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee meeting is live now x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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Stripe is buying OpenRouter, the gateway that connects 10 million+ developers to 400+ AI models across 80+ providers. Stripe says those models come from more than 80 providers, processing over 10 trillion tokens per day. Stripe already routes money. OpenRouter routes intelligence. Together, one platform could handle identity, model access, routing, billing, wallets, settlement, and fraud policy for the entire agent economy. Software agents are becoming buyers, sellers, workers, and allocators of capital. The infrastructure layer that serves them will capture enormous power. That's a massive point of control. If one platform handles all of it, it can make agent commerce much easier. It can also decide which actors get accounts, which models receive traffic, which transactions are acceptable, and which jurisdictions are allowed to participate. Stripe clearly expects stablecoins to sit at the center of this market. They're fast, programmable dollars that fit neatly into a world where software pays software every few seconds for compute, data, and completed tasks. But stablecoins are still somebody else's liability, dependent on issuers, banks, reserve assets, and the political rules around the dollar. Bitcoin is the counterweight. It doesn't need Stripe, a bank, or a stablecoin issuer to exist. It gives software and humans a bearer asset with a fixed issuance schedule and a settlement network no company controls. Lightning, ecash, and other bitcoin-native payment systems can give agents a way to transact without turning one private platform into the economic gatekeeper for the machine economy. The default agent economy is being built right now. If open protocols don't earn their place in the stack, identity and money collapse into the same corporate permission layer. That would be a very efficient system. It would not be a free one.

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DDC Enterprise is launching a bitcoin-focused content series called "Dishing Up Bitcoin" that brings together food and community with folks like @natbrunell and @americanhodl8.

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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on the US-China relationship. "This is what I would call a period of mutually assured economic disruption, which results in a kind of stability. Not from the fact that each side trusts each other. Quite the opposite. But because the costs of escalation are so high."

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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson says the deficit is on a path to destroy America's economic wellbeing and national security. "$1 trillion is $7,800 for every household. The first rule of holes is to stop digging. And we're digging big time."

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New investigation from @_whitneywebb and @markgoodw_in on Unlimited Hangout. Behind OpenAI's Stargate Argentina is a company called Sur Energy, led by Emiliano Kargieman, dubbed "Argentina's Elon Musk." His previous venture, the satellite surveillance firm Satellogic, has deep ties to Palantir, the Trump administration, and U.S. intelligence agencies, and "is due to enable within the next year what was once Palantir's most implausible ambition: predictive policing of the entire planet in real time via AI-powered satellite surveillance, i.e. total information awareness." Milei's government has rolled out the red carpet for Silicon Valley. The Financial Times reported he "invite[d] AI to free itself" and proposed allowing "AI-run companies with no humans involved to operate in his country." One adviser in his inner circle, Demian Riedel, "has controversially argued that humans are, in fact, Argentina's biggest problem, particularly in Argentine Patagonia, because they present an obstacle to AI infrastructure and development in the region." Kargieman himself has admitted "Stargate Argentina is not about bringing jobs to locals, but about generating dollars." He's also suggested OpenAI may not be the ultimate end user, hinting the AI firm could collapse under "the inevitable popping of an AI debt bubble." unlimitedhangout.com/2026/08/invest…

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A demo of @blocks' newly released open-source app Berd, which lets solo developers build, customize, and run multiple AI agents from a single desktop workspace.

@TFTC21

Amazon is reportedly destroying rare books to use as AI training data. 404 Media confirmed it by placing a tracking device in a rare book that ended up at an Amazon facility in Las Vegas.

@TFTC21

ChatGPT can now read, search, and reply to your Apple Messages directly from your Mac.

@TFTC21

IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol says even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens today, it could take up to two years for oil and gas production to return to pre-war levels. "We should be prepared for rather volatile energy markets for some time to come."

@TFTC21

CFTC Chair Selig says the agency will build its own crypto market structure if the CLARITY Act fails. He directed staff to “begin exploring rules to codify a CFTC market structure for crypto assets,” potentially allowing leveraged trading under federal oversight.

@TFTC21

CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee meeting is live now x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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Straight signal sent to your inbox every weekday: tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

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Stripe is buying OpenRouter, the gateway that connects 10 million+ developers to 400+ AI models across 80+ providers. Stripe says those models come from more than 80 providers, processing over 10 trillion tokens per day. Stripe already routes money. OpenRouter routes intelligence. Together, one platform could handle identity, model access, routing, billing, wallets, settlement, and fraud policy for the entire agent economy. Software agents are becoming buyers, sellers, workers, and allocators of capital. The infrastructure layer that serves them will capture enormous power. That's a massive point of control. If one platform handles all of it, it can make agent commerce much easier. It can also decide which actors get accounts, which models receive traffic, which transactions are acceptable, and which jurisdictions are allowed to participate. Stripe clearly expects stablecoins to sit at the center of this market. They're fast, programmable dollars that fit neatly into a world where software pays software every few seconds for compute, data, and completed tasks. But stablecoins are still somebody else's liability, dependent on issuers, banks, reserve assets, and the political rules around the dollar. Bitcoin is the counterweight. It doesn't need Stripe, a bank, or a stablecoin issuer to exist. It gives software and humans a bearer asset with a fixed issuance schedule and a settlement network no company controls. Lightning, ecash, and other bitcoin-native payment systems can give agents a way to transact without turning one private platform into the economic gatekeeper for the machine economy. The default agent economy is being built right now. If open protocols don't earn their place in the stack, identity and money collapse into the same corporate permission layer. That would be a very efficient system. It would not be a free one.

@TFTC21

DDC Enterprise is launching a bitcoin-focused content series called "Dishing Up Bitcoin" that brings together food and community with folks like @natbrunell and @americanhodl8.

@TFTC21

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on the US-China relationship. "This is what I would call a period of mutually assured economic disruption, which results in a kind of stability. Not from the fact that each side trusts each other. Quite the opposite. But because the costs of escalation are so high."

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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson says the deficit is on a path to destroy America's economic wellbeing and national security. "$1 trillion is $7,800 for every household. The first rule of holes is to stop digging. And we're digging big time."