We trained a robot to play football. How? Self-play for 140 years in a virtual World Cup. Meet the #Messinator:

Our latest research paper explores the growing connection between AI and digital assets and explains why broad AI adoption may drive new demand, utility and applications across the digital asset economy. blackrock.com/us/individual/…

The Internet Needs Crypto to Survive AI: piped.video/watch?v=TKVY4hVA… One of the most exciting, and underrated, developments in crypto atm revolves around this @Bankless conversation with @eastdakota of @Cloudflare. ~20% of all websites are routed through Cloudflare, and in this conversation Matthew tells us that the business model of the Web is under attack. To put it simply, agentic traffic is exploding, and agents don't click on ads, but ads underpin much of the "free" stuff we get online. The infrastructure is creaking under agent load. Matthew's assertion is that microtransactions, at a scale not previously seen, will be needed to pay for access to content, as the advertising model of the Web falls apart with agents. Crypto people have talked about microtransactions forever, but it was for people, which never worked, whereas we're now contemplating it for agents. He says Cloudflare handles ~500M requests per second, and that 1-10% of those requests may be suitable for this microtransaction model. A blockchain environment is the only payment network that could theoretically handle this scale, and it would need to hit 5-50M TPS. 5-50M TPS in prod dwarfs anything yet attempted in crypto, and is far beyond anything TradFi can handle. There are very few blockchain environments that could conceivably provide this throughput. Just as important as the scale, is the model and trust assumptions. While Cloudflare may roll this out as a solution for its customers first, what's implicit here is the potential for an entirely new business model for the Web. If Cloudflare walks this path, I hope that what they build has permissionless validation, allowing for anyone to audit the network. Cloudflare has been a torch bearer for the open Internet, and so it only follows that if they're to pioneer a new business model for the Web, that the architecture be an open network. Doing so will engender the most trust, goodwill, and adoption in the long run. Web 3.0 is dead, long live Web 3.0.

The first autonomous flight across America, by the numbers: ✅ 3,199 miles flown ✅ 0 times the safety pilot touched the controls ✅ 2,323 miles: the farthest distance the aircraft was supervised from ✅ 100% of taxi, takeoff, cruise, and landing performed autonomously ✅ 1 month-long transcontinental tour, eastbound leg complete Along the way, the J208 integrated into the nation's busiest general aviation airport at Deer Valley and altered its mission plan in real time for changing weather. We've seen some of you asking: why a Cessna Caravan? In the new Joby Recon, @maxabusa, Maxime, Evan and Craig break down the pathway to certified autonomous flight technology.