Microsoft just released its first in-house AI built to fight cyberattacks.

Called MAI-Cyber-1-Flash. It powers a team of AI agents that find and fix threats on their own, with a public tryout starting August 3 in Microsoft Defender.

Bitcoin critic and actor Ben McKenzie urges Congress to block the Clarity Act.

"You can not be against Trump's crypto corruption and then vote for a bill that enables that corruption to continue."

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the Clarity Act "is at the 1-yard line" amid talks with lawmakers to advance the bill.

Senate Majority Leader Thune on Clarity Act: “There’s a lot of swirl around it, on yield, some of the things that the banks care deeply about.”

Expects “fairly robust amendment process” if cloture is reached.

Franklin Templeton supports the CLARITY Act: “The bill would make clear how crypto is regulated. Investors would know what protections apply. Firms would know which regulators they answer to.”

.Erik Voorhees showing Kimi K3 running on (AskVenice) answering a prompt about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, uncensored.

.(DavidBCollum) and @MartyBent on why Gen Z is leaning socialist and the Rorschach test playing out in real time:

"It makes sense why they're leaning socialist. They've been taught that this is a capitalist system."

"My main enemy is the people that have been running this country."

"The Charlie Kirk Tyler Robinson story — you can see people picking sides in ways that you go, I did not see that coming."

"I don't think you can convict Tyler Robinson based on what I've seen. Not in a standard court of law."

.(DavidBCollum) and (RudyHavenstein) on the unchecked expansion of executive power and why both parties are the problem:

"We gave the executive way too much power under Bush and Cheney and it's just metastasized over the years."

"Everything Trump does is gonna be done by some president in the future that you really hate."

"There's no cops on the beat. Trump is just making a farce of the whole thing. He's blatantly selling to major criminals."

"He seemed like our last hope and now our last hope is gone."

"He's done the opposite of everything he promised. And it's pathetic."

"If you're building the most important machine since the Manhattan Project, don't be surprised when the government decides it's a public good." -@JOHN ARNOLD

We discuss:
⚡ The coming AI nationalization
⚡ The new choke point wars
⚡ Bitcoin's most bullish chart

Michael Saylor calls BIP-110 "the latest outbreak of the 'I just heard about Bitcoin, and I’m here to fix it' syndrome."

.(DavidBCollum) went on Twitter to crowdsource the truth about statins, and 495 out of 500 people said the same thing:

"Your body has cholesterol for a reason. It's not something you want to drive to zero."

"The side effects turn out to be excruciating lower limb pain, swelling, early onset dementia. People end up in wheelchairs within two years."

"I did a poll, 62% major side effects."

"Instead of trusting the 'experts,' trust people who've been through this."

Kimi just dropped the model weights and technical report for K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model with native vision and a 1M token context window.

2.5x the intelligence per unit of compute. Not just bigger. More efficient.

They also open-sourced the infrastructure stack behind it: attention kernels, MoE communication library, and agent environment tooling.