🚨🚨 Norway coach Ståle Solbakken on why he rested his starting eleven & Erling Haaland vs. France, speaking to a packed press room:
Reporter: “Ståle, millions of fans tuned in today expecting a titanic, blockbuster clash between Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé. Instead, they got a B-team. Why did you rob the world of that matchup?”
Ståle Solbakken: (Laughs, leaning into the microphone) “Look, I know you all expected the big clash of Haaland and Mbappé. It looks great on a billboard, it’s amazing for TV ratings, and trust me, Erling wanted to play. But please! Some of my players were completely exhausted. My midfielders were playing through cramps against Senegal, and the medical staff looked at me like I was a madman if I started them again.And let’s be totally honest for a second — I’m avoiding the hard route!” (Grins as the press room erupts in chuckles)
❌️ “Why would I burn out my best players just to win the group, play Sweden in an intense derby, and then get rewarded with Germany in the next round? No, thank you!We take the rest, we take the flight to Dallas, and we let France deal with that side of the bracket. Hahaha!”
Reporter: “So you deliberately chose to finish second?”
Ståle Solbakken: “I chose to keep my players alive! If that means we get a fully rested Haaland for the knockout rounds and a slightly friendlier path, I will gladly play the villain. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some sunscreen to pack for Texas. 😂😂
From Blaqwit Footy Tales
Watching $EDEL here.
Merkl integration going live adds a real incentive layer: stocks ~15% APR, USDC ~12%, STRC boosted to ~20% during the campaign.
At $5M MCAP there's asymmetry; they're the on-chain securities lending protocol for tokenized equities in a $2.5T market that's just getting started (Ondo, Canton Network tailwinds). Room to run if usage sticks. Chart also looks primed.
You have the opportunity to position in the company that built the model behind venice (700m mcap) at 7m mcap
Valued at 1/100 of Venice
Take 5 minutes and read through this article. I promise you won't regret it
$POD
Solana officially announced that Bittensor’s $TAO is now live as a canonical asset on Solana via Wormhole + Sunrise. It’s immediately tradable on Jupiter, Kamino, Meteora, Phantom, Solflare, dFlow, and other Solana DeFi platforms with deep liquidity and zero/low fees.
🚨 Most people completely missed what just happened with $TAO's @QuasarModels SN24
Let me fix that.
Here is who Adaption Labs actually is:
▫️ Co-founded by Sara Hooker (@sarahookr)
▫️ Former VP of Research at Cohere
▫️ Veteran researcher at Google Brain AND Google DeepMind
▫️ Author of "The Slow Death of Scaling" the essay the entire AI research world is quoting right now
▫️ $50M seed round raised
▫️ 60,500 followers of serious AI researchers
▫️ Speaking at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen this June on fixing the AI stack
▫️ HuggingFace now integrated into their data platform
A Cohere / Google DeepMind veteran with $50M in funding just plugged her adaptive data pipeline directly into a Bittensor subnet.
Read that one more time.
Why she chose Bittensor.
Adaption's entire thesis:
"AI was built for a fraction of the world. Adaption is building it for the rest."
"Everything intelligent adapts. So should AI."
They are betting AGAINST brute force scaling.
They are betting FOR continual learning. Real-time adaptation. Efficiency. Systems that actually evolve.
That is literally what Bittensor was designed to do.
This wasn't a deal. This was thesis gravity.
Sara Hooker didn't pick a Bittensor subnet because someone pitched her.
She picked it because when you believe what she believes:
Adaptive > Static
Efficiency > Scale
Open > Closed
Bittensor is the only network that structurally makes sense.
What Quasar miners are now getting.
State-of-the-art adaptive datasets nobody in decentralized AI has ever had access to before.
High-quality reasoning data.
Long-context training data.
Generalization data.
Pulled from one of the most credentialed data pipelines in the world.
Troy from the Quasar team said it plainly:
"SN24 miners are the luckiest in the world."
And then: "When we said we are going to deliver state of the art, we meant it."
This is the data infrastructure that closed-source frontier labs guard jealously.
Quasar just opened it up to permissionless miners on Bittensor.
The quality bar nobody else has set.
Quasar said something publicly that took courage.
Previous decentralized training runs even SN3's celebrated Covenant-72B were technically impressive but not practically usable because quality was never the core priority.
Quasar is the first team in decentralized AI to say:
Scale is not enough. We are building models people will actually use.
Largest MoE training run in decentralized AI.
SOTA performance as a requirement from day one.
Long-context. Reasoning. Generalization.
Not impressive numbers on a benchmark.
Usable models that compete with GPT and Claude directly.
Now look at the timing.
Sara Hooker is on the Fortune Brainstorm Tech main stage in Aspen. June 8-10. Five weeks away.
The same stage that has hosted the CEOs of NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.
The topic: how we get from the AI stack we have to the AI stack we truly need.
She is going to stand on that stage in front of Fortune 500 executives and talk about why the current AI stack is broken.
And Bittensor is now part of her solution.
That is not a podcast comment from Jensen Huang.
That is a $50M-funded research pioneer with Google DeepMind credentials putting Bittensor inside her flagship research partnership before a Fortune main stage keynote.
Every validation raises the bar for the next one.
The pattern is not random.
What this says about where we are.
The AI world is splitting in two right now.
Camp one: scale is everything. Bigger clusters. Bigger checkpoints. Bigger corporate control. Static models. Frozen intelligence. Centralized rails.
Camp two: scale is dying. Adaptation wins. Real-time learning. Efficiency first. Open infrastructure. Decentralized coordination.
Sara Hooker wrote the paper on why camp one loses.
She just joined camp two on Bittensor.
@adaption_ai@sarahookr@sudip_r0y@TroyQuasar
Source: SILX AI blog | Fortune BrainstormTech 2026 | https://t.co/Nkbq5jHbk5
Not financial advice.
$SOL + $TAO
Here’s what’s actually unraveling over the last few weeks.
TWO separate things happening:
1: THORChain officially confirmed native TAO integration. SOL holders can swap directly into TAO, no CEX, no wrapping, trustless.
2: TAO subnet ALPHA tokens are coming to Solana via a separate trustless mechanism that is NOT a bridge, real TAO staking behind every alpha, buyable from Phantom wallet.
These are two different teams, two different mechanisms, same destination with Solana liquidity flowing into #Bittensor.
The wall between the two ecosystems is coming down.
$TAO $SOL
HSBC Announces Successful Tokenised Deposit Pilot on Canton Network, Demonstrating Interoperability
"This pilot marks the first time HSBC’s TDS (Tokenised Deposit Service) was issued and used on a public blockchain. During the controlled pilot with Canton-enabled applications/digital assets, HSBC simulated the transfer of tokenised deposits and the atomic settlement of tokenised deposits against other digital assets.
The pilot represents a significant milestone in HSBC’s tokenisation journey, demonstrating tokenised deposits can be issued by HSBC and settled atomically with digital assets on the Canton Network. It also highlights the importance of interoperability in scaling digital financial markets and supporting institutional adoption."
$CC
https://t.co/wH5TwN8aEG
Intel posting directly about their work with @TargonCompute
Third largest semiconductor company in the world, valued at $220 billion..
Talking about a single #Bittensor subnet
Congrats to the @manifoldlabs team 👏
$TAO
You can now enable Claude to use your computer to complete tasks.
It opens your apps, navigates your browser, fills in spreadsheets—anything you'd do sitting at your desk.
Research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, macOS only.
The energy war just changed.
America burns coal at night to keep the lights on while China built something different and most people have no idea it exists.
In the middle of the Gobi Desert, there is a 263-meter tower surrounded by 12,000 mirrors in a perfect circle, spread across nearly 8 square kilometers of barren land.
It looks like something out of a science fiction film.
They are focused on a single point at the top of that tower, raising temperatures above 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
That heat gets pumped into tanks filled with a special liquid salt mixture.
They are using Molten salt, the same stuff ancient civilizations used to preserve food is now storing the sun's energy at 565 degrees Celsius.
When the sun goes down, the plant keeps generating electricity.
The molten salt stays hot for hours after sunset and drives a steam turbine on demand.
This is a 100-megawatt power station that runs 24 hours a day on sunlight alone.
It produces over 390 million kilowatt-hours of power every single year.
Every coal plant on earth has one critical weakness, it needs fuel to burn.
This plant needs nothing but the sun and a tank full of heated salt that refuses to cool down.
The implications are enormous.
The oldest argument against solar energy has always been: "What happens at night?"
China just answered that question with 12,000 mirrors and a tower visible from space.
🚨🇨🇳🇮🇷 BREAKING: China's largest shipping company just pulled out of the Gulf entirely.
First Maersk. Now COSCO.
The 2 biggest shipping operations on earth have both stopped moving cargo through the region.
When global supply chains were disrupted before, they're now severed.
@officialrnintel
This one actually made me pause.
Scientists built a robot made of liquid.
Not flexible.
Liquid.
It can split, merge, squeeze through tiny spaces, and then re-form.
When it breaks, it heals itself.
No motors.
No joints.
No rigid body.
I’ve spent years thinking about AI as the brain of machines.
This feels like the first glimpse of something else.
A body that does not have a fixed shape.
Today it’s millimeter-scale.
Tomorrow, it’s medicine moving through the body, or machines exploring places nothing solid can reach.
That thought excites me.
And honestly, it unsettles me too.
So here’s the question.
When machines no longer have a stable form, what does “control” even mean?
#AI #Robotics #SoftRobotics #Innovation #Technology #FutureOfWork