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FULL INTERVIEW: Brendan Carr calls AI the 3rd great technological leap, after the internet and the mobile internet. He says the people calling it the end of the world are running the exact same playbook they ran on net neutrality. @BrendanCarrFCC is Chairman of the @FCC. He joined @theojaffee and @schisofrenia in DC on the Build America Agenda, spectrum for space, and what the FCC is doing about AI and cyber: 01:08 what the Build America Agenda actually is 02:27 the new rules on humanoid and quadruped robots 03:12 what happened after the drone and router bans 03:43 the weird space stuff that needs spectrum, including drugs made in zero gravity 05:00 turning the FCC's space bureau into a processing plant 05:36 if you built towers and connected nobody, maybe someone else should have that spectrum 06:07 why the old approach to robocalls didn't work 07:14 they've kicked thousands of voice providers off the US phone network 07:30 what you can do about bot farms outside the country 08:25 getting telecom carriers early access to new models before release 08:36 what he can and can't say about AI and cyber 09:21 the same people running the same playbook they ran on net neutrality 11:37 how the FCC thinks about neutrality heading into the midterms 11:50 the deal broadcasters made with the American public, and who wants out of it

In 2015, Uber felt like the safest growth-stage in heydays of mobile internet frenzy, RSUs offered ~$50/share, every FAANG friend took the offers felt like a no-brainer hop 11yr later share price ~$75, 1.5x from the offers back then.. Now big ai labs offers are priced with trillion-dollar outcomes as the base case. That massive chasm between perceived wealth and realized wealth is exactly the mispricing between primary and secondary markets

Sirens rang out across Taipei during annual air raid drills that also included the ‌Taiwan government deliberately limiting mobile internet access to simulate what might happen in the event of a Chinese attack. Angie Teo describes what she saw

Generative AI adoption in Southeast Asia has reached around 243 million people in less than three years, according to the annual e-Conomy SEA report released by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company — equivalent to 58% of the working population. AI adoption rates are four times faster than the uptake of mobile internet, yet only 1% to 2% of the region’s population pays for personal AI subscriptions. Find out how businesses are generating AI’s commercial value through other avenues:

BREAKING: Gen Z ‘Cockroach Party’ protesters breach first barricade as hundreds are detained, 45 metro stations shut down, and mobile internet is suspended across parts of central Delhi, India

Thousands are protesting across India against changes to voter rolls that have stripped millions of their right to vote. Police have detained scores of protesters, and authorities have cut off mobile internet services near protest sites. Indian authorities need to release all detained for peacefully protesting, stop suspending internet services, and investigate complaints of police abuse.

This article is written in Chinese, and I recommend giving it a read. I don’t agree with everything in it, but several of its ideas gave me a new perspective. One of the most interesting is that AI can produce intelligence at scale, but cannot cheaply verify its own output. Blockchain, meanwhile, is exceptionally good at providing verifiable identity, ownership, commitments, and settlement through algorithms. The truly crypto-native users we have been searching for over the past fifteen years may not be humans at all. They may be AI agents. Crypto will not be replaced by AI. It will be absorbed into AI finance. Just as we no longer need to say “mobile internet,” the “crypto” prefix may eventually disappear when all finance becomes algorithmic finance. Humanless Blockchain may be the moment when the Smart Economy truly begins to operate.