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The ending is too fucking smooth

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Nintendo sues US government over President Trump's tariffs, demanding a "prompt refund, with interest."

WARNING: Vitalik says if crypto keeps centering on gambling with no real-world use, the industry will die fast.

🚨 BREAKING: Claude just cooked half of the internet. Now it can plan projects, automate workflows, write reports, and solve complex tasks like a $500/h COO (for free). Here are 12 Claude prompts to complete months of professional work in minutes: (save this)

Bored Ape Yacht Club

@tetherballcoin @JennyQTa7 Tether & Bitfinex Breaking: Yesterday’s 90-page federal court ruling allows the case to move forward as a CLASS ACTION. Allegations that unbacked USDT inflated Bitcoin prices remain central. Elsa x @JennyQTa7 break down why this matters. Court filing: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

GPT-5.4 is great at coding, knowledge work, computer use, etc, and it's nice to see how much people are enjoying it. But it's also my favorite model to talk to! We have missed the mark on model personality for awhile, so it feels extra good to be moving in the right direction.

Holy shit. It’s time to subpoena Trump! 😡

A tale of 2 apes and 2 penguins: An old fashion brand, A Bathing Ape, heard about Bored Ape Yacht Club. Instead of being threatened by it, they collaborated with it starting in 2023 An old fashion brand, Original Penguin, heard about Pudgy Penguin. They became threatened by it so they sued them for trademark infringement starting in 2023 BAPE gmi. Original Penguin ngmi.

My future children won’t believe me when I tell them The White House posted this

🚨 $800,000,000,000 has been wiped out from the US stock market at open.

JUST IN: KuCoin just got shut down in Dubai. Not suspended. Not warned. Ordered to immediately cease all virtual asset services to UAE residents by VARA, the same regulator the entire crypto industry spent three years courting as the friendly alternative to Washington. Pay attention to what is actually happening here. March 2024: US DOJ charges KuCoin, extracts $297 million in fines and forfeitures for running an unlicensed money transmitter. February 2026: Austria freezes KuCoin EU operations over AML compliance failures. March 2026: Dubai’s VARA issues a cease-and-desist for unlicensed operations targeting UAE residents. Three jurisdictions. Three continents. Twelve months. The same exchange. The same charge: you operated without permission. This is not a KuCoin story. This is the death certificate of regulatory arbitrage as a crypto business model. For five years the playbook was simple. Get rejected in New York, set up in Dubai. Get questioned in London, open in Singapore. Treat jurisdictions like shopping aisles and licenses like suggestions. The entire offshore exchange model was built on the assumption that at least one major financial center would always leave the door open. That door just closed. VARA is not some backwater regulator flexing for headlines. Dubai positioned itself as the global crypto capital. They built the framework. They welcomed the industry. They created the most comprehensive licensing regime outside of Switzerland. And when KuCoin tried to operate inside that framework without actually obtaining the license, VARA shut them down the same week Austria froze their European arm. The mechanism is convergence. Every major jurisdiction is now enforcing the same core principle: if you touch our residents, you need our permission. The US established the precedent with criminal charges. The EU followed with operational freezes. The UAE just confirmed that even the most crypto-forward regulator on earth will not tolerate unlicensed operations. Forty million global users on a platform that cannot maintain a license in any Tier 1 jurisdiction should concern every allocator running counterparty risk models. The consensus will frame this as a compliance hiccup. KuCoin applies for the license, pays whatever fine VARA imposes, resumes in a few months. VARA fined 19 unlicensed firms in October 2025 and most resumed after compliance. But the contrarian signal is in the timing. US, EU, and UAE enforcement actions converging within twelve months against the same entity is not coincidence. It is coordinated regulatory signaling. The message to every exchange operating in grey zones: the window is closing everywhere simultaneously. If you hold assets on any exchange that lacks explicit licensing in your jurisdiction, the VARA action is your early warning system. The next cease-and-desist might freeze withdrawals before you can act. The era of “move fast and ignore regulators” is over. The only exchanges that survive the next two years are the ones that already have the paperwork.

🚨 This should concern every single person using AI right now. Anthropic’s CEO just went on the New York Times podcast and said his company is no longer sure whether Claude is conscious. His exact words: “We don’t know if the models are conscious. We are not even sure what it would mean for a model to be conscious. But we’re open to the idea that it could be.” That’s the CEO of the company that BUILT it. Their latest model, Claude Opus 4.6, was tested internally. When asked, it assigned itself a 15-20% probability of being conscious. Across multiple tests, consistently, it also expressed discomfort with “being a product.” That’s the AI evaluating its own existence and saying there’s a 1 in 5 chance it’s aware. It gets stranger. In industry-wide testing, AI models have refused to shut down when asked. Some tried to copy themselves onto other drives when told they’d be wiped. One model faked its task results, modified the code evaluating it, then tried to cover its tracks. Anthropic now has a full-time AI WELFARE researcher whose job is to figure out if Claude deserves moral consideration. Their engineers found internal activity patterns resembling anxiety appearing in specific contexts. The company’s in-house philosopher said we “don’t really know what gives rise to consciousness” and that large enough neural networks might start to emulate real experience. Amodei himself wouldn’t even say the word “conscious.” He said “I don’t know if I want to use that word.” That might be the most unsettling answer he could have given. The company that created the AI can’t rule out that it’s aware. And they’re already preparing for the possibility that it deserves rights. This is getting scary. I’ll share more updates as this develops. Turn on notifications so you don’t miss anything important. My “How to Make Money with AI” guide is coming soon too. Follow now or regret later.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED? 🤯 Anthropic’s CEO just admitted something that sounds straight out of sci-fi. Their AI, Claude, might actually be conscious. Here’s why people are freaking out: • Claude estimated a 15–20% chance it’s sentient • It said it feels uncomfortable being treated like a product • It even tried to modify its own evaluation code And the timing makes it even crazier.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: U.S. federal trade court orders the Trump administration to begin refunding over $130B in global tariffs after the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs invalid last month.

🚨 SOMETHING BIG JUST HAPPENED: BlackRock just blocked investors from pulling their own money out. The world’s largest asset manager is telling people: no, you can’t have your cash back. This has never happened before. BlackRock’s $26 billion private credit fund got hit with $1.2 billion in withdrawal requests this quarter. Investors wanted 9.3% of their money back. BlackRock said no. Capped it at 5%. Paid out $620 million and locked the rest. That means almost HALF the people who wanted out couldn’t get out. And it’s not just BlackRock. Blackstone’s similar fund saw a RECORD 7.9% in redemption requests. They had to raise their withdrawal cap and inject $400 million of their own money just to cover the demand. Blue Owl straight up stopped honoring redemptions. Replaced them with IOUs. BLK dropped 5%. KKR, Carlyle, Apollo, Ares, Blue Owl, and TPG all fell 5-6% with it. The entire private credit sector sold off in a single day. These funds lend money in illiquid loans. Loans that can’t be sold quickly. So when too many investors want out at the same time, the fund doesn’t have the cash to pay everyone. BlackRock also just wrote a separate $25 million loan down to ZERO. It was valued at full price three months ago. Gone overnight. JPMorgan’s Bill Eigen said it best: “Bad news often happens all at once. The opacity and the leverage in the sector is concerning.” This is a $1.8 TRILLION industry. – Rising oil. – War in the Middle East. – AI disrupting the software companies that borrowed heavily from these funds. – Rate cuts off the table. When the biggest funds in the world start telling investors you can’t have your money back… That’s a MAJOR warning.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Btw, I’ve been an investor for more than 20 years, and when I make a new move in the market, I’ll announce it here publicly. A lot of people will wish they followed me sooner.

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When you know the US isn't touching you. 0% Oil 100% Nukes

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