Saudi Arabia leaving mBridge is getting a lot of attention today. Meanwhile, CIPS transaction volume just hit ~50 trillion CNY and the trend line doesn't care about headlines.

Every "this will stop de-dollarization" moment, Iran kicked from SWIFT, Russian sanctions, chip export bans, trade wars, has been followed by acceleration, not reversal.

The plumbing is being built whether we pay attention or not.

Chinese state media is spreading fear about US data centers while celebrating AI wins at home.

80% of Chinese citizens are optimistic about AI. Only 17% of Americans are.

(SamLyman33) explains why China wants Americans to hate AI.

The anti-data center crowd claims to stand up for the working class. The unions disagree.

(SamLyman33) explains why 40+ labor groups are fighting against data center regulations.

Alaska pays its residents to live there. Rural counties could be next.

(SamLyman33) explains why AI infrastructure is the new oil fund.

Greg Brockman claims OpenAI’s Astra model has reached a threshold that “is pretty reasonable to call it AGI.”

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is pushing for 24-hour stock trading. Extended hours currently account for less than 1% of total NMS stock volume. Meanwhile, bitcoin has traded 24/7/365 since day one. The legacy system is slowly discovering what bitcoin figured out 17 years ago.

TFTC 793 w/ (SamLyman33): "The same Chinese state media sowing fear about data centers here is celebrating AI milestones back in China. It's the coup of the year."

We discuss:
⚡ China's anti-AI psyop
⚡ The $278M money trail
⚡ Data center dividends

VanEck's Matthew Sigel: "We track the number of countries that are mining or holding bitcoin at the sovereign level and that goes up every year."

Figure just dropped its humanoid robot into 30 stranger's homes and it started doing laundry and making beds with zero retraining.

The "AI Evaluator Forum" just published an open letter that David Sacks is calling "Trust & Safety 2.0."

100+ researchers are calling on every frontier AI company to embed independent third-party evaluators inside their labs with access equivalent to senior employees, protection from retaliation, and direct lines to company boards.

The letter dropped the same day as Newsom's executive order calling for the same thing.

https://aievaluatorforum.org/initiatives/embedded-evaluation-letter

Heating your coffee with bitcoin mining.

Anthropic has quietly set up a physical wet lab in the Bay Area for hands-on biological experiments.

The company won't disclose the lab's size, headcount, or biosafety level.

Their head of life sciences confirmed the lab. A spokesperson then clarified it's "not for drug discovery specifically" without elaborating on what it is for.

Anthropic is also pushing to have its AI direct robotic units to carry out experiments with limited human intervention. They call it "very early innings."

The timing is something. In the past two weeks, Anthropic's own researchers warned AI could lead to human extinction. The company reported cases where its systems could have been used toward bioweapons development. And now they're scaling a physical biology lab while preparing for a potential $2 trillion IPO.

https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-quietly-sets-up-biology-lab-it-ramps-ai-drug-program-2026-09-18/