Kyle Samani (@KyleSamani) returns to TOKEN2049 Singapore. Chairman of @FWDind. He co-founded Multicoin Capital in 2017 and led all three fundraising rounds for Solana before network launch. Forward Industries closed a $1.65 billion PIPE, cosponsored by Jump and Galaxy, and Samani invested $25 million of his own capital in the round. 7-8 October, Marina Bay Sands.

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During the 115th Congress, ASA continued to spearhead efforts to remove suppressors from the NFA alongside former Rep. Jeff Duncan (SC-3) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID). By the end of 2018, the Hearing Protection Act had gained significant support, with 166 cosponsors in the House and 18 cosponsors in the Senate.

"In April, Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican, sponsored legislation that would direct the U.S. Treasury Department to designate CAIR and its affiliates as specially designated global terrorists. The bill has 16 cosponsors, all Republican."

🚨 JUST IN: Trump-endorsed Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) just made the SAVE America Act the VERY FIRST legislation she co-sponsored in the U.S. Senate, after taking her late brother’s seat Great news! 👏🏻 GRAHAM: “The American people are demanding immediate action from Congress on election integrity. That’s why the SAVE America Act is the first bill I am cosponsoring in the Senate.” “These reforms are common sense and need to be enacted quickly. I look forward to working closely with President Trump to get the SAVE America Act signed into law.”

Last weekend 200+ of the best builders showed up to our Frontier RL Environments Hackathon at @ycombinator. The idea behind HUD is simple: anything you can simulate and grade, you can improve with RL. Teams built RL envs for autonomous farming, gene editing, city planning, world sims, and games. Some did autonomous ML research + chip design, and used HUD to RL their own open models past Opus 4.8 in-domain. Huge thanks to our cosponsors for making it happen! If you want to work on RL, or just be at the frontier of AI, build with us, we're hiring:

$SNDK $MU $WDC $STX Since the Election Day close, $SNDK is down 24%, $STX 22%, $WDC 20% and $MU 19.5%. Over the same two sessions $MSFT is up 3.8%, $AMZN 2.5% and $GOOGL 1.3% ($META is the exception, down 4.7%). The market read the Democratic sweep as a cut to AI capex and billed it to the companies that sell into the buildout. The post everyone is pointing at came on Wednesday from Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari: "Top of the Democratic agenda on day 1 needs to be a pause on advanced AI development, regulation of this out of control industry, and a ban on artificial superintelligence." It's past 8 million views. The bill behind it already exists. Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar put out the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act in September. It would pause advanced AI development until a new federal regulator writes safety rules, with prison terms of up to 20 years. Ansari is one of its House cosponsors. Turning that into law is a much longer road. The new Congress is sworn in on January 3. Trump said this week he would block Democratic legislation, and a veto override needs two-thirds of both chambers. Democrats have around 54 Senate seats against the 67 an override takes, and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries hasn't committed to backing the bill. So I'd put a federal pause close to zero for 2027. What did go up is the risk of slower building. Data centers were on 41 local ballots in 10 states on Tuesday, by Ballotpedia's count, and a Democratic Congress can lean on permits, power and water without ever passing a ban. Memory also has a problem of its own this week. Qualcomm said rising memory costs pushed phone prices up and hurt demand, and its handset chip revenue came in at $5.14bn against a $5.21bn estimate. That's high DRAM prices showing up as lost phone units, and it has nothing to do with Washington. The buyers going up fits a slower buildout: less capex, more free cash flow. Memory gets the other side of that trade, because 2027 estimates assume no slowdown at all. Nothing can pass before January 3, so the next real data point is hyperscaler capex guidance. Which comes first: a hyperscaler trimming its 2027 capex plan, or the memory names getting this 20% back?

We Need Medicare for All More Than Ever Over and over again, I hear from critics that moving to Medicare for All is just “too expensive.” That is demonstrably untrue. But let me tell you what IS too expensive. And that is our current healthcare system, which puts the profits of the big health insurance and drug companies ahead of the well-being of the American people. Today, not only is our current system cruel, broken and dysfunctional, it is wildly expensive. Despite spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as other wealthy countries, we remain the only major nation on Earth not to guarantee healthcare for all. The result: 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured and thousands die unnecessarily every year because they can’t afford the healthcare they need. The outrageous cost of the current American healthcare system is unsustainable. If we do nothing, it is estimated that we will spend $72 trillion over the next ten years. That is trillion with a T. These skyrocketing costs are not only making healthcare unaffordable for ordinary Americans, they are negatively impacting businesses and our entire economy. According to a recent survey, employers in our country are expecting the cost of healthcare to skyrocket by 11% next year — the highest in decades. Last year, as healthcare costs soared, insurance companies made over $54 billion in profits, drug companies continued to charge us, by far, the highest prices in the world for medicine, and healthcare CEOs received huge compensation packages. But that’s not all. The current system maintains massive amounts of expensive bureaucracy and administrative costs designed not to provide high quality healthcare to all, but to make executives and stockholders extraordinarily rich. It is not an accident, for example, that we spend a fraction of what other countries spend on primary healthcare and disease prevention. Not only would investments in these areas make Americans healthier, they would save tens of billions a year in keeping people out of emergency rooms and hospitals. The Medicare for All legislation that I introduced would save the American people over $1 trillion and 114,000 lives each and every year according to researchers at the Yale School of Public Health. This legislation has 18 cosponsors in the Senate and 115 in the House. Most importantly, it now has the support of 64% of the American people, according to a poll that came out last month. Over a four-year transition period, Medicare for All would guarantee healthcare as a human right to everyone. In the first year, we reduce the eligibility age to 55, cover all children under 18, and expand Medicare to cover dental, vision and hearing. In the second year, the Medicare eligibility age would be reduced to 45. And in the third year it would drop to 35. By the fourth year, every man, woman and child would be enrolled in a Medicare for All system with no copayments, no premiums, no deductibles and no out-of-pocket expenses. Every major country on Earth figured out decades ago how to provide universal healthcare to all of their people at a much lower cost than we do. Please don’t tell me we cannot do the same.