🇯🇵 Japan is quietly laying the groundwork to put stock and bond settlements on blockchain
and this isn't some startup pitch, it's the FSA, Finance Ministry, AND Bank of Japan getting in the same room this summer.
Real-time settlement would kill the days-long delays baked into traditional markets for decades. Study group launches this summer, development plan by early 2027, live system possibly early 2030s.
Slow and steady wins the infrastructure race.
Source: @DeItaone / Writer: Oliver
BREAKING: SpaceXAI sues Grok user accused of creating illegal deepfakes.
Elon Musk previously warned that anyone using Grok to create illegal content would face the same consequences as someone uploading it.
• A user created multiple accounts using false identities and repeatedly attempted to bypass Grok’s safeguards.
• He uploaded photos of adults and minors and tried to turn them into CSAM.
• SpaceXAI says its detection and reporting helped lead to his arrest. He now faces eight felony child-exploitation charges in South Carolina.
• SpaceXAI has suspended 52,222 accounts and submitted 73,604 reports to NCMEC in 2026, contributing to at least 244 arrests.
@sama We start flying them next year. Maybe you can come see them if your parole officer approves.
After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple’s phone technology! Wow.
What do you plan for an encore? That’s tough to beat.
Over 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI.
Scam Altman is taking scamming to a whole new level.
Thinking about doing business with OpenAI or Sam Altman?
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
BREAKING: Elon Musk called the global memory chip shortage "the biggest price jump in anything I've ever seen"
Musk was agreeing with Apple CEO Tim Cook's hundred-year flood warning from a Wall Street Journal interview earlier this month. Cook said he had not seen anything like it in his 40 years in the industry.
Musk responded on X this week. He added that the production shortfall relative to demand is insane and that much higher production is needed.
DRAM and NAND chip prices have both quadrupled over the past year. AI data center buildouts have absorbed nearly all available memory supply.
Apple raised Mac prices by 15% to 20% and iPad prices by 15% to 25% on Thursday. The MacBook Air jumped $200 to $1,299. The MacBook Pro climbed $300 to $1,999. The iPad Pro rose $200 to $1,199.
Microsoft is raising Xbox prices by $100 to $150 starting August 1. HP, Dell and Nintendo have also raised prices.
Musk has been warning about memory specifically since January. He told Tesla's Q4 earnings call that memory could become an even bigger limiter than AI logic.
That is why Tesla, SpaceX and Intel announced Tesla Terafab. The joint project will combine logic chip production, memory manufacturing and advanced packaging in one facility.
Tesla itself depends on memory chips for vehicles, Optimus and FSD. Tesla has started hiring semiconductor workers for the new chip facility.
(Sources: @elonmusk on X and WSJ, June 25-26, AM.