the guy who came out of nowhere and started going on a worldwide media tour was an op?!?

Self-driving is one of the great transportation and public health advances of our time. Thrilled to have Waymo co-CEO @TechTekedra keynoting CES! 🚗

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Got a demo of the iPhone Duo. Super impressive!

Its a bit under the radar, but @GovernorVA and @GovSherrillNJ are quietly steering Democrats' data center policies back to a sane place: No moratoria Let communities decide No NDAs or subsidies Prioritize local construction jobs open.substack.com/pub/blueho…

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Dr. Dre gets it. AI isn’t here to kill creativity. It’s another instrument in the studio. First the turntable. Then the sampler. Then the synth. Now AI. Creative people use new tools to make new things. That’s how music moves forward. ⤵️🎹💻

Just out: my cover story in The @Spectator on whether AI will end the world. Cassandra was a princess, daughter of King Priam of Troy. Apollo gave her the power to see the future and, when she rejected his advances, arranged that no one would ever believe her. She warned the Trojans about the wooden horse. “All heard, and none believed the prophecy,” Virgil wrote. And so the city burned. In the Silicon Valley version of Troy, there’s a twist to the Cassandra story. Instead of ignoring the Cassandras, the elders hear them out, agree with every word, then… wheel the horse in through the gates, right on schedule. spectator.com/article/beware…

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I hope the Democrats asking Lina Khan for advice on...(checks notes)...AI will realize that this take is just warmed-over Biden-era slopulism rather than anything helpful or insightful about ...ya know, AI

Here we go again! The WSJ is working on a story blaming Coinbase and me personally for the CLARITY Act not passing. The Journal has repeatedly been hostile to CLARITY in its reporting, regurgitating bank lobby talking points, while I’ve spent years pushing for crypto legislation, but that’s not stopping them from trying to reverse the blame. The boring TLDR: in January I opposed a draft of the bill going into a committee vote, because it needed a lot of work on DeFi, tokenization, CFTC authority, and stablecoin rewards. At the time, the bill had major issues that would have harmed crypto. Support was fractured, and it wasn’t passable. We worked with a number of parties who improved the bill and made it passable. All four of the items I called out were fixed in the draft that then went through the committee about four months later. I'm proud to have done it, and would do it again, because it helped create a better bill. One step of many along the way. The final draft of CLARITY that went to the Senate was great, and I strongly supported it. I'll continue showing up for our customers and pushing for clear rules that treat crypto fairly, even if those who feel threatened by crypto try to plant false stories. It's a shame that the WSJ takes direction from bank lobbyists instead of reporting the truth, but luckily, people are smart enough to see through it these days, and it backfires on them every time.

With today's Senate action, we now know four things: 1/ Today's vote mattered. After years of negotiations, it was largely a partisan vote when the music stopped. That’s unfortunate because so many people on both sides of the aisle worked hard to improve this bill. And yet, the Democrats voted as a block against the most comprehensive, bipartisan bill ever written. Maybe there will be an opportunity to bring everybody back to the table with a commitment to get a bill done — I hope so. 2/ The banks did everything in their power to kill the Clarity Act. The big banks and the small banks worked together to hand @realDonaldTrump a loss and stop financial innovation and competition in America, and they successfully put several Republicans on record as anti-crypto. This was not a zero sum game, but they made it one. 3/ The GENIUS Act is the law of the land. Anybody who wants to earn more than 0.1% on their bank account should look at other options. 4/ There’s another path, and there's zero time to waste. @ChairmanSelig and @SECPaulSAtkins have spent more than a year preparing for this moment, and they are ready to put in place rules that will enable the future of finance. It's time to get it done.

Great meeting with National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross at @ONCD yesterday!