Ken Jon
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Hey @DavidSacks, we need to do round two of recalling ineffective DAs who won’t enforce the law.
We can’t let them SF our Austin!
Austin Justice@AustinJustice
Trespassing is no longer enforced by Austin's prosecutors. Since DA Jose Garza and CA Delia Garza took office, criminal trespassing has been effectively decriminalized, and offenses have surged 77%.
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Been pushing hard on our BD and sales.
First enterprise revenues and customers in Q1 including a big partnership with @yanez__ai who is using @bitmind fine tuned models.
Much more to come 🫡
BitMind@bitmind
CysecOnline, South Africa's trusted digital forensics experts, is now integrating BitMind into their services to detect deepfakes with industry-leading accuracy. Protecting clients from synthetic media, fraud & misinformation like never before. Real-time AI verification meets expert forensics. Secure what's real.
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tune-in to @twistartups !
This Week in Startups@twistartups
PLUS we're getting thoughts (and demos) from two more amazing subnet founders: Steffen Cruz of @MacrocosmosAI and Ken Miyachi of BitMind. Follow along with everything we've got in store on our living docket: thisweekinstartups.com/docket cc: @Apex_SN1, @IOTA_SN9, @bitmind, @BitMindAI
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Alibaba just claimed happy horse 1.0 topping all leaderboards in T2V models. All top vision generation models are now chinese (SeedDance, Kling).
LTX leading the way for open weights models but ranked #37.
these companies have made many open source contributions but not open-sourcing the models in categories where they are SOTA.
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@kenjon so const is not part of triumvirate anymore ? since when ?
he left the OTF but who are the triumvirate now ?
again, it was not just him that sold part of his share, others joined him, hence bullying
all things const affirms happened explicitly, there is no debate
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Sam leaving, dumping, and the fallout is unfortunate, especially for Covenant stakeholders.
but this is actually an amazing opportunity for everyone building on Bittensor. Decentralized training is the holy grail, but there is so much research left beyond a 72B dense LLM. @bitmind cooking stuff and know many other teams are as well.
I've seen this before. I worked with and recruited a team from Google DeepMind for over almost a year. countless hours with them. whole team flew into Austin with their partners. We spent days working, eating, and bonding. They were miners on my subnet and said winning our subnet competition was the highlight of their year. The next week after flying home, they dumped everything. I trusted those people a lot, and spent countless time with them, set up OTC deals for them etc.
this feels very similar. Sam was praising @const_reborn and Bittensor just days ago, then crashed out and hurt a lot of people. const was extremely generous and truly wanted Sam to succeed. The economic aspect hurts but the hardest part is the principle and emotion.
I get the allure of cashing out 10 million dollars. but imo extremely short sighted and not why I'm here. The dream of building something iconic and driving real breakthrough innovations is the motivation
long term games is the way
success is the best revenge. the absolute ruthless competition for decentralized training on bittensor is open. the moat bittensor has is velocity. that hasn't changed. consume open source and innovate
covenant@covenant_ai
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selling small amount of TAO isn't reasonable for dump/exit. it was 1% of his holdings. he addressed this and its onchain
const doesn't even have a triumverate key and thats not what happened. emissions weren't frozen or stopped
all 3 of the subnets had emissions and templar was the top emission subnet prior to dumping.
the claims sam made in the article are objectively false
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@kenjon that's literally what Sam's article claims........
Jacob used alpha selling pressure to bully/punish/coerce Sam
sure const started it, but that's not the claim
can const and the two others freeze tao and subnets or not ?
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@freedom_monk no this is an incorrect take and the article was a pretty egregious mischaracterization of what happened.
Jake owned some tokens and sold, just like any other market participant can. It was not a hostile takeover at all. he bought the subnets and gave them to sam.
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@kenjon completely different scenario & biased towards const, who admits to everything the article actually says about the pressure he was putting on Sam and the control he has
What const did was make Sam a SN owner in name only, which is true for all SN's now, that he has Alpha in
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@Credib1eGuy What’re you running now? I’m like 2 weeks more of waiting for M5 Ultra before buying a DGX spark
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Mythos is proving that all premises for security are broken in a world of AI.
new security primitives will need to be created to combat the continuous adversarial attacks that will come from the advancement of frontier models
Anthropic@AnthropicAI
Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software. It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans. anthropic.com/glasswing
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Great writeup by @taotimesdotai on the @yanez__ai x @bitmind partnership.
ecosystem effect
full article below
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Great strides in Q1 @bitmind
enterprise customers and revenue.
explainability and Proof-of-Human is the next frontier.
a huge percentage of cyber crime losses in the US involve human security systems getting compromised. generative AI is becoming a core component of almost all of these cyber crimes.
no one wants to orb themselves. a fully open-source digital identity system for the AI world is necessary.
BitMind@bitmind
Q1 2026 has been a breakout quarter for BitMind. We made significant strides toward our mission of creating a decentralized Trust Layer for the internet, delivering real product progress, enterprise traction, and ecosystem collaboration on the Bittensor network. Here is what we accomplished: Launched the Human Face Competition We kicked off our first major community-driven data initiative, the Human Face Competition. This open call is crowdsourcing diverse, high-quality face data to accelerate training of our specialized deepfake detection models and directly support our key partnerships. Formalized Strategic Partnership with Yanez (@yanez__ai)After months of technical integration, we officially partnered with Yanez to co-build a fine-tuned face deepfake detection model optimized for biometric-grade attacks. Yanez brings 20+ years of identity security expertise, patents, and a proprietary face dataset, while we contribute our proven AI-generated content detection model and Top 20 subnet infrastructure. This collaboration is already delivering a model neither subnet could build alone and is aimed squarely at the exploding deepfake fraud problem in crypto, finance, and identity verification. First Enterprise Customers and Revenue We closed our first enterprise contracts and generated real revenue from production deployments. These wins validate both the demand for our technology and our ability to serve serious customers who require reliability, compliance, and measurable performance. Complete Infrastructure Refactor We rebuilt our core infrastructure from the ground up. The result is major performance gains, dramatically improved scalability, and full readiness for SOC 2 certification with a strict zero-data-retention policy. This puts us in a strong position to meet the security and privacy standards enterprise and regulated customers demand. New Reporting Feature with Explainability We shipped a powerful new reporting dashboard that gives users clear, human-readable explanations for every detection decision. Transparency and trust are now built into the product, not added later.
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been cooking @bitmind 🔥
big breakthrough: ensembles our top miners’ insanely diverse models (CNNs, SoTA ViT architectures, CLIP, VLM vision encoders + more) trained an attention layer on top.
huge performance jump… and it nailed the in-the-wild vibe test. applied on images, videos coming soon
new products + research report on the way 🫡
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The @yanez__ai team has a lot of experience in identification and fraud. @bitmind will use the data generated on the yanez subnet in our competition, to create highly performant human face detection models.
Our human face challenge is already live! Big steps towards a fully open source proof-of-human system.
no orb needed
BitMind@bitmind
Very excited to announce our partnership with @yanez__ai to build out face deepfake detection models more details below
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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸Photos circulating reportedly show a heavily damaged US Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter inside a Kuwaiti hangar and on an airfield, with extensive fire damage, burnt fuselage, and visible "UNITED STATES ARMY" markings.
Source: @WarMonitors
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Thick smoke is reportedly rising over Bnei Brak in central Israel after debris from an Iranian rocket fell there.
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