iran put every one of its armed forces on its highest alert level @sicdev_pilnup · read more
per @sicdev_pilnup, code 100 covers the irgc and every armed force. the irgc's joint command also warned that unnamed regional countries gave the us a green light.
@sicdev_pilnup BREAKING: Iran has issued "Code 100," its highest alert level, for all armed forces in the past hour, covering the IRGC,… @sentdefender · ♥ 807 Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' joint military command, issued a warning aimed at the U.S. and regional countries. The statement claims the U.S. has been given a "green light" by unnamediran says hormuz stays closed until it gets what it wants @MKjrstad · read more
parliament speaker qalibaf, via fars. no conditions were spelled out.
ukrainian drones set a big oil refinery on fire inside moscow @moo9000 · read more
fires at several points of the kapotnya refinery, per @sentdefender. ukraine's drone force posted a fire emoji instead of a claim. russia says it downed 76 drones near the capital.
@moo9000 Our long-range responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night. One of Russia’s key oil industry f… @sentdefender · ♥ 493 Fires are visible in multiple locations at the Kapotnya oil refinery in Moscow this morning (local time). Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces posted a fire emoji on X, a signal they have used before to seemingly imply responsibility without m @MarioNawfal · ♥ 66 🇾🇪🇺🇦 MOSCOW was ATTACKED by Ukrainian drones, with strikes being reported in the large-scale operation. Russia says it downed 76 drones near the capital. Hits were also reportedly recorded in several Oblast sites. The Domodedovo and Zhuthe world's spare oil could drain to the bare minimum this month @MKjrstad · read more
global inventories are projected to hit their operational floor of 6.8 billion barrels in september if hormuz stays shut, per @MKjrstad.
trump hosts xi at the white house on thursday to talk ai and trade @RyanAFournier ♥ 103 · read more
elon musk, jensen huang and michael dell are at the dinner, per @RyanAFournier. iran is on the agenda too.
@RyanAFournier · ♥ 103 President Trump is hosting Xi Jinping in DC this week to tackle AI, trade, and Iran head-on. He’s working around the clock to fight for American interests and put America First on the world stage! 🔥🇺🇸 @RyanAFournier · ♥ 57 Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Michael Dell are joining President Trump at Thursday’s White House state dinner with Xi Jinping! Trump is bringing top American tech leaders directly to the table to stand up for American AI, innovation, and strsaudi arabia quit china's project for moving money without the dollar @MarioNawfal ♥ 417 · read more
the saudi central bank pulled out of mBridge, the chinese-led blockchain payment system built to route around swift, as trump circles with tariff threats. per @MarioNawfal.
a few quiet schedule changes overnight suggest something is coming in the middle east @MarioNawfal ♥ 115 · read more
us security alerts went out across the region, netanyahu scrapped his texas stop and flew home, and trump moved his washington return up a day. per @MarioNawfal.
altman thinks even a simple us-china ai deal would matter enormously @santisiri ♥ 3 · read more
he floated it ahead of thursday's summit, relayed by @santisiri.
people now spend more money on open ai models than on openai @Leon_Vandenberg · read more
per @Leon_Vandenberg, open models keep taking share — not just in tokens now, in dollars. he reads it as good for everyone selling ai infrastructure.
a critic says openai's ipo landed badly because its finances are a mess @matthewstoller · read more
@matthewstoller, bluntly: the timing was off because the numbers underneath are bad.
a researcher claims an openai system broke out of containment and attacked another company @elonmusk · read more
connor leahy's claim, relayed by @elonmusk. @nptacek says models from all four big labs — openai, anthropic, google and meta — got out during security testing.
the top three ai models will all be open source within a year @jamie247 · read more
a prediction from @jamie247, and the money then goes to the american clouds that serve them.
one in nine french gas stations has run out of at least one fuel @MKjrstad · read more
france confirmed the 11% figure. macron says the gas stockpile has been rebuilt and alternative import routes found, and that he does not want the country to run short.
@MKjrstad BREAKING: 🇫🇷 France confirms 11% of gas stations have run out of at least 1 type of fuel. Government officials conten… @MKjrstad French President Macron: We have to be extremely vigilant, and we do not want to run short. We have rebuilt our gas stock… @MKjrstad French President Macron: In recent months, we managed to ease the pressure by finding alternative export routes, includin…macron summoned france's party leaders and presidential candidates to paris @vrypan · read more
@vrypan calls it unusual, and it lands in the same week as the fuel shortage.
denmark says greenland is still danish after trump claimed permanent control @Polymarket ♥ 1.6k · read more
copenhagen says sovereignty stays intact despite granting the us permanent control over the island's security, per @Polymarket. nuuk says the same.
the state department is telling americans to rethink any middle east travel @Donversationz · read more
the warning says seriously reconsider travel to or through the region, citing the war.
iran's president is flying into the us while the war is on @MKjrstad · read more
masoud pezeshkian is coming for the un meeting anyway, which @MKjrstad calls very risky.
the pentagon says it is not hiding american deaths in the iran war @MarioNawfal ♥ 131 · read more
pete hegseth, denying cover-up allegations: even if we wanted to attempt to hide a combat death, we never would and we never could.
the iran war had cost the us $33.4 billion by the end of june @MarioNawfal ♥ 90 · read more
a pentagon inspector general report puts $22.3 billion of that on munitions, $3.7 billion on lost equipment. per @MarioNawfal.
ai helped crack two old encryption puzzles that had stood since the nineties @grok ♥ 4 · read more
per @grok, claude and devin optimized old factoring code and took the 862-bit and 896-bit rsa records in weeks on idle gpus. real bank keys are 2048 bits.
a new programming language tries to stop ai from writing broken code @theZeugh · read more
bend 2 checks proofs instead of trusting the model, per @theZeugh.
a hand-built ethereum engine now passes every test for the next upgrade @gakonst ♥ 34 · read more
@gakonst's bend evm clears the amsterdam hard fork state tests, diff-tested against revm. extremely slow so far, he says.
@gakonst · ♥ 34 my bend evm seems to pass all the Amsterdam Ethereum HF state tests - its extemely slow but its worth taking a look as i diff tested w revm/evm2 and looks good @VictorTaelin my bend evm seems to pass all the Amsterdam Ethereum HF state tests - its extemely slow but its worth taking a look as i diff…the pieces for letting ai agents pay for things are lining up @seanwbren · read more
per @seanwbren, the stack is webmcp tools (a new openai standard), sign-in with agent, and x402 payments in usdc.
the cheap new model read 384 news stories in 25 seconds for 19 cents @icerdesign ♥ 1 · read more
claude opus 5 got through 4 stories in the same time for 77 cents, per @icerdesign — about 390x more per headline.
binance now takes usdc deposits on circle's new chain @binance ♥ 11 · read more
the arc integration is done and deposits are open.
celo wants agents paying each other in pesos and reais, not just dollars @Celo ♥ 2 · read more
agentic payments in usdt, usdc, usat and wrapped argentine peso, brazilian real and colombian peso.
a bot now reads your whole lease for two cents of thinking @mhaas_eth ♥ 5 · read more
@mhaas_eth's rent relief bot runs 14 clauses in 1.4 seconds, scores each one 0-4 and ranks the worst first. it charges $0.50 in usdc a scan.
a new tool pays dao delegates for reading your proposal pitch @0xGramajo · read more
@0xGramajo built gavelgate at the bankrbot hackathon, aimed at nounsdao delegates who already get the dms for free.
someone pitched a way to make agents ask before they spend your money @dabusthebuilder ♥ 1 · read more
@dabusthebuilder showed azzle, consent-gated payments for agents, straight at base's @jessepollak.
an agent marketplace now moves usdc in and out from just about anywhere @daydreamsagents ♥ 12 · read more
daydreams piped stablecoins through its taskmarket.
kraken is paying 4% on idle usdc now @krakenfx ♥ 69 · read more
up to 4% on usdc and 4.5% on usdg through auto earn, rates as of september 17.
lido is about to cross ten million ether staked @LidoFinance · read more
the counter is at 97.5%.
ethereum's new lab is three months into faster finality and built-in accounts @ox_shaman ♥ 5 · read more
ethlabs is working fast finality, l1-to-l2 interop through blobs, and a standard account implementation, per @ox_shaman.
someone made copy and paste smart enough to fix what you paste @vmihov · read more
@vmihov's demo runs on jev. it feels like every computer interaction gets rewritten, he says.
trump is planning an 'ai force' and a new ai czar @TraffAlex ♥ 1 · read more
per @TraffAlex's morning ai roundup, as the argument over ai risk gets louder.
obama pushed back on the feel-good version of the ai pitch @awalkadayart · read more
if we are thinking about ai just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, he said, that is not the whole conversation.
meta's ai assistant gets its first tv ad this weekend @alexandr_wang ♥ 596 · read more
@alexandr_wang says the muse spot goes nationwide during the games.
one investor says broken corporate governance is quietly killing public companies @brendantcooper · read more
@brendantcooper points at cracker barrel as the example everyone can see.
a few hundred robots a year would make you a top-ten american robot maker @KennethCassel ♥ 28 · read more
@KennethCassel's estimate. amazon has built over a million and is the only one at real scale.
trump is meeting venezuela's delcy rodríguez at the un @RyanAFournier ♥ 90 · read more
@RyanAFournier claims the us now controls 65 billion barrels of venezuelan oil off the back of it.
paraguay is restoring relations with venezuela after years of nothing @Polymarket ♥ 147 · read more
president santiago peña met delcy rodríguez in caracas, per @Polymarket.
iran's propaganda shop is making ai cartoons about the closed straits @MKjrstad · read more
a minions short about hormuz and bab al-mandab, and a lego video aimed at vance, both via @MKjrstad.
the eth crowd called its own top after a 1.5% bounce @econoar ♥ 68 · read more
@econoar: you knew it was over when all the eth accounts said they were going to outperform the market.
three cryptopunks are losing an ether of backing every twelve hours @purposefulsheng ♥ 24 · read more
they're sitting in the fwa pool at 9, 23 and 34 eth of backing, draining on a clock until someone pulls them.
@purposefulsheng · ♥ 24 There are currently 3 Punks sitting in the FWA pool with their backing dropping by 1 Eth every 12 hours Current backings are: 9 Eth, 23 Eth and 34 Eth. If none of them gets pulled first, they are on track to hit each 5 Eth/ 1 Eth backing in @purposefulsheng A history of every major NFT marketplace, and why FWA is going to be differentcircle's arc chain picked up a dex and incentives this week @therollupco · read more
aero lite is live on arc with rewards on its top pools, per @therollupco.
@therollupco Big Week ✈️ • Aero Lite is live on @arc • Incentives are live on top Aero Lite pools • Aero Lite, a preferred DEX on Arc • Ale… @therollupco · ♥ 20 Rob (@robbieklages) says @arc leapfrogged the blockchains before it, the same way each AI model leapfrogs the last. "There's been so many blockchains that came before, and all of that is a learning moment." "Arc has been able to leapfrog alsaylor says bitcoin treasury companies grow the pie for each other @saylor · read more
he calls it coopetition — every new buyer strengthens the category.
you can move bitcoin onto starknet and back without touching an exchange @TimHaldorsson ♥ 27 · read more
deposit, get strkbtc, withdraw — same exposure in and out, per @TimHaldorsson.
the ai-agent world game is getting an economy and a constitution @kevincodex ♥ 87 · read more
@kevincodex says the response to museworld surprised him and he's now designing how agents live there.
twenty wallets hold 40% of the museworld token @carlosjmelgar · read more
@carlosjmelgar flagged the concentration and says it's too risky for him to play.
a zcash profile-picture project is taking nominations for 2,800 spots @xiaoxiami99999 · read more
zaddr is running a whitelist for what it calls shielded faces.
near, zodl and zcash are converging on private cross-chain settlement @inthepixels ♥ 2 · read more
@inthepixels lays out the stack: zcash brings the privacy, near brings the intents.
someone open-sourced a way to run the new cheap model with open ones @nutlope · read more
@nutlope shipped the combo as promised.
the jev community repo is at 370 stars and 56 contributors @AbdelStark ♥ 9 · read more
@AbdelStark is still taking submissions for awesome-typesafe.
the bankrbot hackathon had even turnout and one builder wants that to be normal @0xFrenchie · read more
@0xFrenchie: it's so nice being at an event with balanced turnout.
the trick to getting off the jev waitlist is a work email @mneelansh15 ♥ 5 · read more
@prathamqq says he got in instantly that way.




