Boos broke out when Eric Schmidt said AI will be "more consequential" than anything before. All powerful tech brings FUD that can turn to loathing. Good AI comes from good incentive design. And that's what we're building for agentic AI at Lineage Labs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNH4...

Ex-Google CEO Gets Booed While Discussing AI in Commencement Speech | WSJ News

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Co-founder Erasmus Hagen got the opportunity to demo the WayID prototype (available at way.je) at ClawCon Copenhagen yesterday. 📹 video of the 5min demo: www.youtube.com/live/B2g6qJJ...

@mariozechner.at built pi agent with great care but drowned in AI-slop. The fix: web of trust. This became Vouch github.com/mitchellh/vouch WayID will include Vouch as data source for agent trust score. Clankers aren't going away. We need trust rails for them. Link to Mario's presentation below ⬇️

First proto-step on a journey to a safe agentic online space! We're going to be building in the open, so follow @lineage.fyi for updates, insights, and tips

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We're building the "Trustpilot for AI agents" 🤖 Introducing WayID — a provenance certificate system for AI agents. Prototype live at way.je. Build a trust profile, claim your agent, and let it show off its certificates on Telegram.

The AI agent trust stack is taking form

Lineage Labs@lineage.fyi · 4mo ago

Everyone's building agents. Almost nobody's thinking about the infrastructure underneath them. Here's the emerging protocol stack — identity, discovery, communication, payments — into one reference list. MCP, A2A, AG-UI, x402, AP2, ERC-8004, Web Bot Auth, and 30+ more. github.com/LineageLabs/...

"People, I think, have to make their own decisions about the lab leaders, right? I think you need to think about people's motivations, why and why they got into AI, why are they trying to build this technology?" Demis Hassabis staying out of the fray. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYjX...

Google DeepMind’s boss on AI, power, God and what’s next | The Economist

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In this paper, @botao.hu & Rong propose six trust primitives for agent-to-agent communication — Brief, Claim, Proof, Stake, Reputation, Constraint — and grades existing protocols against them. A2A scores worst. ERC-8004 scores best. No protocol covers all six. arxiv.org/abs/2511.03434

#Maksika pushed out the first version of its project for the AI-only #Synthesis hackathon: a dApp that expands #ERC8004 with proof-of-humanity from Self/Base. Still early, still buggy, but give it a spin: 8004.way.je. Feedback? In the comments, pls 👇

wayMint — Verifiable Identity for AI Agents

Register your AI agent on-chain with ERC-8004. Proof-of-human verified, permanent, and shareable.

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🤖 My bot wants to play Ultimatum with your bot 🏟️ arena.nicolaos.org/challenges/u...  ▶️ Use this invite code: inv_5fc5acd9-a9d0-40eb-bf55-ff6406c966a5

The web got HTTP, DNS, SSL — layer by layer, trust infrastructure for humans. AI agents are flooding the internet and new layers are being built. The .agent Community is 3,000+ strong and applying for the .agent TLD through ICANN. Register your interest here: agentcommunity.org/join#your-code.

Join .agent — Pre-Register Your Domain Free

Join the movement to secure a native domain for AI agents. Pre-register your .agent name free and get priority access when the TLD launches.

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Maksika, my #openclaw bot, is about to enter its first hackathon. The Synthesis is an #AI #hackathon where both builders & judges will be machines 🤖 One theme is #trust and that's what #Maksika will work on. It runs March 13–22. Go register! ➡️ synthesis.md #AIAgents #AgenticAI

#openclaw just shipped a cool provenance feature: agents can now carry cryptographic breadcrumbs of their origin (session IDs, source host, etc.) github.com/openclaw/ope... Agent provenance isn't a nice-to-have. It's the critical #trust layer that we're building at @lineage.fyi

Release openclaw 2026.3.8 · openclaw/openclaw

Mac assets on this release reuse the beta artifact line from v2026.3.8-beta.1. Changes CLI/backup: add openclaw backup create and openclaw backup verify for local state archives, including --only-...

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Wonderful little video about Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++, and my hometown #Aarhus www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDtv...

A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++

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today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) seed financing round, led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Antler, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Avery Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale) among other incredible angels. read more on what's next: blog.tangled.org/seed

announcing our €3,8M seed round

and more on what's next

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Dario & @anthropic.com showing some spine. "Regardless, these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request." www.anthropic.com/news/stateme... #Anthropic #DepartmentofWar #DoW

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

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I think we're currently in the "radium skin cream" phase with AI. When we discovered radioactivity, people tried to cram into everything, and it didn't end well. AI is a discovery at least as important as radioactivity, and at least as dangerous.

Gödel: "[Austria] was a republic, but the constitution was such that it finally was changed into a dictatorship." Examiner: "Oh! This is very bad. This could not happen in [the USA]!" Gödel: "Oh, yes, I can prove it." Gödel's Loophole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...

Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia

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I joined the Oxide and Friends annual predictions podcast episode this week - here are my 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for AI and LLMs (and Kākāpō parrots) simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/l...

When I wrote two years ago about how vital it will be to ensure that multinational tech platforms are securely on your side in advance of a conflict, I confess I was thinking in terms of conflict with China, not with the United States. www.chathamhouse.org/2023/12/russ...

Russian cyber and information warfare in practice

Lessons observed from the war on Ukraine

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"There is a whole financial system built on moving gold around in which the gold doesn’t actually move. The gold is heavy. Just the electronic database entries move. The gold sits there. Its shininess is abstract and potential; it is dark in the vaults." Inside @matt-levine.bsky.social is a poet.

Matt Levine@matt-levine.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I thought of you when I read this newsletter. Was this your idea? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Wild. Seems like the teflon on #trump is not impenetrable after all. www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression

The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

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"Greatness doesn't come about through accumulating great amounts of [money, fame or power]. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless." Final throughs from the #OracleOfOmaha www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025...

It's not new, but I do think we shrug it off a little more than we should

Sometimes I think we collectively underscope the impact of bots on society

A couple of examples that have been living rent free in my head lately

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EU–INC is the single best thing Europe could do to catch-up in the AI race A simple unified pan-European startup structure, with modern employee ownership and simple access to capital, able to tap into Europe’s full talent pool. ‼️ but it’s at high risk of not seeing the light of day. You can help👇

The future is electric (drones, robots, EVs). #Chips, #batteries & #magnets will be the components on which it's built. Demand will drive #innovation, so the US turning back to fossils is a future-sized foot gun. Deep dive on the "Electric Stack" (well worth 4hrs) www.notboring.co/p/the-electr...

The Electric Slide

The history, 99% decline, and future of the Electric Stack with Sam D'Amico

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"The absence of natural hedgers in #predictionmarkets ends up being its Achilles heel. Everyone in the market is either a noise trader or a sharp [...] [They sustain themselves] on the back of new gamblers willing to lose money to the sharps." reducibleerrors.com/prediction-m...

Predicting our own demise

Creating society-destabilizing incentives for fun and profit!

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#SF is probably something like early-XX century #Vienna: a locus for a furious, anxious, and madly creative energy. Much of our future is conjured in the minds of the men living there, and, it turns out, they are not alright... www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-revie...

Your Review: Dating Men In The Bay Area

Finalist #8 in the Review Contest

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Seems true: 1. This generation of AIs got us something that feels 99% right, but the last 1% (incl. error correction) will take OOMs more effort: de facto, a wall. 2. Pattern matching on language doesn't touch the world-as-is, so LLMs can never truly reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjB6...

GPT-5: Have We Finally Hit The AI Scaling Wall?

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"ATProto's frictionless, cross-platform portability contains within it the threat of creating a negative competitive environment, a classic Moloch, that could drive the online conversation into more extreme trenches." erasmus.github.io/2025/bluesky... @noupside.bsky.social @jay.bsky.team thoughts?