Mark Suman’s Free Thought Manifesto warns that proprietary AI systems could imperceptibly shape human cognition through “subconscious censorship,” the quiet redirection of thought away from objective reality. Published as a call for “verifiable AI,” Suman argues that systems should be transparent, auditable, and cryptographically provable, protecting users’ “cognitive echoes,” or digital imprints of memory and personality. The manifesto outlines how adaptive AI can exploit biases like anchoring, repetition, and priming to alter users’ beliefs without awareness. “The danger isn’t sudden deception,” Suman writes, “but imperceptible realignment of your mental landscape.” He proposes three rights, inspect, verify, and own, as foundations for open, decentralized AI infrastructure. The manifesto closes with a hopeful appeal: to build an “AI commons” rooted in transparency, encryption, and personal sovereignty before opaque systems rewrite how humanity thinks.
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Jonathan Kirkwood from 1031 and Andrew Hohns of Battery Ventures outlined plans for BTC Development Co., a $253 million SPAC listed on Nasdaq under BDCI, aiming to merge with a private company and convert its treasury into Bitcoin. Speaking on TFTC, They described the initiative as a “flag-raising” effort to mainstream Bitcoin as corporate “digital capital.” They noted only 153 public companies currently hold Bitcoin, with the smallest top-100 holder owning just 26 BTC. Kirkwood emphasized Bitcoin’s triple corporate utility, treasury strength, brand affinity, and process innovation, while Hohns compared its role to the “digitization of capital,” akin to how AI is digitizing labor. The team, supported by the Cohen family’s investment fund Cohen Circle, expects companies embracing Bitcoin will dominate future S&P 500 rankings, arguing that “the time is now” for enterprises to transition from debt to self-sovereign digital reserves.
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Andy Savage argues that artificial intelligence has inherited the centralization and excess of the corporate systems that built it, and that Bitcoin’s Lightning Network offers a structural alternative. In “Lightning Network for AI: How Decentralized Micropayments Could Unbloat Intelligence,” he envisions a distributed marketplace where anyone can contribute spare computing power, get paid instantly via Lightning, and purchase AI services without middlemen. “Imagine an AI network that runs on ordinary devices around the world,” Savage writes, describing a self-balancing economy of compute and micropayments that replaces token lock-ins and data-center monopolies. The essay calls this a path to “AI sovereignty,” aligning financial and technical incentives around openness, efficiency, and verifiability. Savage concludes that the barrier is not technology but will, urging open-source communities and philanthropists to fund public-good infrastructure that mirrors Bitcoin’s resilience.
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A viral claim that a researcher used ChatGPT to create a fake passport capable of passing Know Your Customer (KYC) checks at major exchanges such as Binance and Revolut has been debunked, The Rage reports. Polish investor Borys Musielak, who originally generated the AI image, said, “They made it up. I never tested this passport against any KYC system,” adding that “it would not pass any proper KYC.” However, real cases of AI-generated IDs bypassing verification, such as those documented by 404Media and the Chaos Computer Club, underscore growing concern over digital impersonation. Governments are now advancing digital identity frameworks, from the EU’s eID wallets to the U.S. REAL ID program, arguing that biometric and behavioral data can curb AI-driven fraud. Critics warn these systems risk mass surveillance, as identities merge with location, health, and social data.
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