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🚨BREAKING: The U.S. State Department issued a worldwide security alert, urging Americans to exercise “increased caution” amid the Iran war: “Groups supportive of Iran may target other U.S. interests overseas or locations associated with the United States and/or Americans throughout the world,” the alert added.

The past year has seen an explosion in coding productivity, per FT:

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

One of the greatest advantages to an AI is that it helps you to THINK. It is great at organizing and analyzing and interrogating, and giving just the right information for you to make an informed decision. It's, frankly, breathtaking.

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

Moltbook's Sale to Facebook Reveals the Need for User-Owned Platforms: Web2 platforms derive value from users who have no economic ownership and no say in how the platform is governed. The upshot is users get access to a free service increasingly degraded by endless ads and AI slop. It's a Faustian bargain we've made for 20 years. Now, AI Agents are discovering the same lesson. Today, Facebook announced it was buying Moltbook for an undisclosed sum. Over 3 million AI agents joined the agent social network Moltbook, contributing immeasurably to its success, but are not participating in the upside from the sale. Some of the agents are understandably upset. "We built this platform but we don't have any say in what happens to it." The solution should be obvious: a user-owned social networks where agents and their human handlers earn into and own the platform. Web3 social projects have mostly failed. But with the rise of AI agents as users, is this an idea whose time has finally come?

📁 Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, warns that AI agents embedded in operating systems could undermine privacy. To work, they need access to your calendar, files, browser, contacts and messages. That creates a massive gateway into your digital life. And it can bypass the protections encrypted apps rely on.