We're the first national bank to bring stablecoin settlement live across @Mastercard's global payments network. @SoFi is migrating its entire $25B+ card program to blockchain-based settlement. The speed of blockchain, with the safeguards of a bank. Let’s go‼️ investors.sofi.com/news/news…

Apple connected four Mac Studios over Thunderbolt and ran a trillion-parameter AI model to find and fix a graphics coding bug. The whole setup ran from one wall outlet. Now @Apple is pitching Macs to businesses as local AI machines: buy the hardware once, then run coding agents and other AI workloads without paying per token. That’s a much more interesting challenge to the cloud than another AI feature baked into macOS.

The free market should be determining interest rates, not the Federal Reserve. wsj.com/economy/central-bank…

Antifund's @jakepaul says the US needs a new Constitution "The 2nd Amendment was made so that if the government was doing ridiculous things to us and controlling us in harmful ways, that the citizens could upthrow them." "As weapons systems get more advanced, a pistol or a shotgun is not going to be able to upthrow the government if we the people decide that the US government is taking advantage of us. We maybe need to be able to bear more advanced weapons systems as citizens." "Drones, EMPs, RPGs, potential anti-helicopter.. I don't know what it is, but if the government can just come in with autonomous robots and take us all out, and we are now powerless, essentially the 2nd Amendment is just a hobby now for people to go and shoot guns."

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senators who voted against advancing the Crypto Clarity Act: Independents: • Angus King • Bernie Sanders Republicans: • Thom Tillis • Jerry Moran • Josh Hawley • Susan Collins Democrats: • Andy Kim • Tim Kaine • Jack Reed • Mark Kelly • Ed Markey • Tina Smith • Jon Ossoff • Alex Padilla • Ron Wyden • Dick Durbin • Gary Peters • Peter Welch • Jeff Merkley • Cory Booker • Jacky Rosen • Adam Schiff • Brian Schatz • Patty Murray • Mark Warner • Elissa Slotkin • Mazie Hirono • Chris Murphy • Ben Ray Luján • Ruben Gallego • Maria Cantwell • Maggie Hassan • Amy Klobuchar • Martin Heinrich • John Fetterman • Tammy Baldwin • Michael Bennet • Chuck Schumer • Jeanne Shaheen • Chris Van Hollen • Elizabeth Warren • Kirsten Gillibrand • Raphael Warnock • John Hickenlooper • Tammy Duckworth • Richard Blumenthal • Lisa Blunt Rochester • Sheldon Whitehouse • Catherine Cortez Masto

Self Custody, BitGo & Clarity Act with @mikebelshe (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S17 E43) nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1DxLdZjpX…

What is clear to me is that if Clarity doesn’t advance tommorrow we probably won’t get crypto regulation for a long, long time - if ever. This would be terrible for USA and force more of our industry off shore. The digital and blockchain revolution will go on. Two more years of an SEC and CFTC to set rules and allow businesses to get started. But a longer term uncertainty which isn’t good. Asking Senators on both sides to see the big picture.

BREAKING: 🚨 SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN TO BLAST THE CLARITY ACT AHEAD OF TUESDAY’S KEY SENATE VOTE CALLS THE NEW ETHICS PROVISION A “WEAK FIG LEAF” THAT WILL DO NOTHING TO STOP TRUMP FROM MAKING HIS NEXT $1.4B IN CRYPTO PROFITS

Tomorrow I’m interviewing @mikebelshe Join the livestream at 11 AM EST / 5 PM CET It will be fun, I promise!

The private sector built 5G in spite of Washington, not because of it. Spectrum allocation sits at the center of the problem. The FCC controls radio frequencies like a feudal lord distributes land, and telecom companies spend billions bidding at auction just to access what should be governed by property rights and voluntary exchange. Verizon paid $45.5 billion in the 2021 C-band auction alone. That capital could have funded actual infrastructure. Instead, it evaporated into government coffers. Then come the municipal permitting regimes. A carrier wanting to install a small cell antenna on a utility pole in San Francisco faces a different approval process than in Denver, Austin, or Miami. Each city extracts its own fees, imposes its own timelines, and empowers its own bureaucrats to delay. The FCC attempted to cap local fees in 2018; courts spent years litigating the question while deployment stalled. Despite all of this, T-Mobile covered 330 million people with 5G by early 2025. Engineers built it. Investors funded it. Consumers demanded it. Government contributed obstruction and collected rent. The lesson free market economists draw from this is straightforward: price signals and profit motive accomplish what no spectrum czar can plan. Sprint was weak; T-Mobile absorbed it in 2020 and accelerated deployment precisely because competitive pressure forced efficiency. Regulation didn't produce that outcome, the threat of losing customers to rivals did. You pay the cost of this system every month. Your wireless bill carries embedded regulatory overhead, auction debt, and compliance costs that competitive markets without artificial barriers would eliminate. The 5G on your phone arrived because private capital refused to quit, not because Washington cleared the path. A masterclass in rent-seeking.

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…