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No one went to prison.
No home confinement. No DPAs.
No one was even charged.
Water under the bridge. Onwards!
đșđž BREAKING: Bank of America has been fined $1.2 BILLION by the US government.
The bank failed to flag over $5 BILLION in suspicious transactions, the Treasury says.
The missed transactions were linked to suspected Chinese money laundering networks and illicit finance around the southern US border.
The Treasury called the bankâs money laundering and sanctions failures âegregious and continued.â
The penalty includes a $750 MILLION fine from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, per the FT.
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Imagine downloading and installing some rando's decompiled/repackaged rip of established software to save a few bucks.
How much did you actually save if all your crypto suddenly vanishes, your ID is stolen, and your machine is pulverized by background malicious bitcoin mining?
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What happens when AI and robots take the jobs? Do we become a society of artists and athletes, or a society of consumers?
There is a live case study. In the Gulf oil states (Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE), oil pays the citizens. Immigrants do the work robots will do. They are already living in the post job, post work world.
So what happens when you don't have to work? Two predictions dominate
The utopia prediction: once nobody has to work, people spend the surplus hours on art, sport, and craft. Keynes called the economic problem solvable. The remaining problem, he said, was how to live well. The argument is that we all become painters and weekday athletes.
The purpose prediction: humans need a job for purpose and status. The feeling that someone needs what you do. Take the job away and purpose goes with it. People get depressed.
So let's look at how people actually live in Kuwait. We can learn a lot from it. The
Ipsosâs 2026 leisure survey found people go out and basically hang around with friends and family. They go to cafes, restaurants, malls, and parks. Drinking tea, playing cards and shopping. Their top worry is boredom.
They are not depressed in the way the work argument predicts. A 2025 Araa poll in Kuwait found 89% of respondents said they were happy. 41% of the Kuwaitis in that sample said they were very happy. Joblessness it turns out doesn't produce mass despair.
You also do not get a nation of artists and athletes. Kuwait's do very little recreational sports and have barely any artistic hobbies
How much of this Gulf culture, and how much is more widespread human behavior when work is optional is an open question
If AI delivers an abundant future, there might not be a mass renaissance or wide spread depression. The future might be less exciting. We might all just be comfortably hanging out with friends and family, drinking tea and playing cards in the park.
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For those wondering how inanimate computers can pose a threat to our existence:
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Exactly, full steam ahead at all costs.
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I donât like this narrative. It is framed as if we have an option.
Jacob Coxonâs thread is not a revelation. It is a fundraising document for the people who want to regulate the West into second place.
He spent three years inside OpenAI and Anthropic, watched the same scaling curves everyone else watched, then walked out and announced that the people building the systems privately believe they might kill everyone by 2030. Fine. Believe it. Now watch what happens next: the same language gets laundered into licensing regimes, capability pauses, and âpacing agreementsâ written in Washington and Brussels. China will not sign them. China will not slow down. China treats compute as a strategic weapon and talent as a national resource. A Western pause is not a freeze. It is a transfer of the frontier.
The labs already understand the race. Anthropicâs own excuse, per Coxon, is that someone else will do it irresponsibly, so they must do it first. That is not a safety argument. It is an admission that unilateral restraint is suicide. Treating it as moral high ground is how you lose the only contest that matters.
There is no treaty that binds Beijing. There is no moratorium that survives the first lab that defects. There is only the choice between building systems we can actually steer while we still have the lead, or writing rules that apply only to the people who follow rules. Coxonâs resignation does not change that arithmetic. It just gives the people who already wanted the rules a better headline.
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Exciting time to be alive. mRNA tech keeps delivering.
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The newer generation cancer vaccines aren't like the HPV shot (that prevents a virus). These are therapeutic, they treat cancer you already have. And 2026 is the year they stopped being sci-fi.
The idea: after surgery, sequence your specific tumor, find the mutations unique to it, and build a custom mRNA vaccine that trains your immune system to hunt any cell carrying them. A wanted poster for your personal cancer.
Where we actually are:
Melanoma: just like in immunotherapy 15 years ago the furthest along. The press release of positive Phase 3 made the headlines yesterday, the first ever for a personalized cancer vaccine. Earlier data: ~49% lower risk of recurrence. Heading to regulators.
Pancreatic cancer: arguably the most stunning. In an early trial, patients whose immune systems responded to the vaccine were far more likely to be alive 6 years later, in a cancer where 5-year survival is barely better than 10 %. Now in a larger trial.
Kidney, lung, bladder, brain: all in trials, mostly early phase.
The honest caveats: these work best after surgery to stop recurrence, not to melt large tumors. They're personalized, so they might cost $100â300k and take weeks to build per patient. And most are still early-phase. First approvals at best 2027.
But the direction is unmistakable. The mRNA platform some parts of the internet spent years calling poison - because they got fooled by bad actors making money on their lies - is turning into the most personalized cancer medicine ever made.
These are the main trials currently running:
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Most of these venomous replies are from AI bots, the same as my anti-coinbase tweet. Twitter has become a cesspool of sentiment-coercing disinformation campaigns, triggering your rage to align you for their ulterior purposes. Don't be their angry fools.
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Study this:
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Now that Chinese AIs are achieving parity with the best US created models, a few short-term predictions:
OpenAI will adapt just fine, they are very pragmatic, and a lot of their value add is understanding how to do inference cheaply at scale.
Anthropic will literally be unable to get out of its own way, because it is too ideologically committed to AI Doomerism, but they will survive anyway, because many of their victims, pardon me, customers, will continue going back to them over and over again no matter how abusive they are, and perhaps even because of how abusive they are. They will also continue to try to use fear as a mechanism for achieving regulatory capture, but with the Chinese racing ahead of them, they are going to have more and more trouble getting a warm reception from all but the far left contingent in Congress. Look for their newly rich employees to be spending vast amounts of money post-IPO on political campaigns in support of Doomer-friendly candidates and attempts to capture the Democratic party, and for that money to have some significant effect, but for it to mostly be wasted because theyâre not good at understanding their fellow humans.
Musk is ideologically committed to crushing OpenAI, and so xAI is going to keep its team awake 24 hours a day if necessary until they are ahead; look for them to be at the forefront soon. I would expect xAI to eventually be near or in the lead on commercialization.
Google will not be able to get out of its own way, and it may start arguing more and more for heavy regulation of AI as a way of trying to cripple its opponents. This is insane given that they have some of the best technology out there, but unfortunately, their management is simply not good enough, and not just on AI.
Meta seems to be catching up, but I donât have a strong opinion on whether they will maintain momentum.
On the Chinese side, I am expecting Chinese R&D to be at the front or ahead most of the time from now on; the US will need policies that adjust for that. I am expecting Anthropic to spend a ton of money on PR and lobbying claiming that this is all through distillation or espionage, although of course it isnât, and I am expecting that a certain fraction of Congress will be bamboozled, although a surprising fraction will not be receptive, especially after Anthropic employees ham-handedly spend too much money on political campaigns.
It will make no difference, because the only thing that the US could do would be banning Chinese models from being used in the US, and of course, the US canât actually stop other countries or China from using Chinese models; all this would do is hurt the United States and its interests.
I am expecting more calls for export controls, which will delay the Chinese a bit in the short term but which will ultimately stop working at all, because the Chinese are going to control their full technology stack soon, including having EUV fabs capable of manufacturing domestically designed training and inference hardware. I am also expecting the Chinese to race ahead in robotics, and especially in military robotics.
Some US robotics companies, like Muskâs companies and Anduril, will equal or exceed them, but a lot of the other US companies will be crippled by the fact that US manufacturing is too heavily regulated and restrained by stupid internal policies. They will not have problems keeping up on the technology, but scaling requires manufacturing infrastructure, and much of the US has effectively banned economic development or wants to. Places like New York State and California are already envious of Europeâs self-destruction and want in.
If this continues, look for an eventual decisive Chinese military advantage. Note that this is not what I want, it is the exact opposite of what I want, but absent a big change in US policy about things like data centers, chip fabrication facilities, and just plain normal factories, itâs going to be hard.