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[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Interesting.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

😳

[sean o'malley @seanomalley]

Intelligence will be a commodity …and taste will be scarce….interesting

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

For decades, society has sold us a specific formula for success: High IQ + Perfect Test Scores + Specialized Knowledge = A Secure Future. We hire the “smartest” people. We obsess over grades. We treat intelligence as a scarce, gold-standard resource.
But @JensenHuangcon is telling us that the era is over. I agree "taste" will be scarce. https://t.co/tMXRvsb5oB

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

SPV-life. 😎😎😎🤣 Friends don't let friends buy SPVs.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

My takeaway from this video is simple:

If a completely regimented, top-down and unemotional decision making body like the Chinese bureaucracy allows a vehicle like this on the road, then autonomy is not only safe and reliable it’s also here today.

So any decision less than full support for autonomy in any country of the world other than China, then, is just a form of corruption or regulatory capture.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Marc nails it.

In my opinion, if you get federal funding, you should be capped at how many foreign students you admit to 5-10% at the undergraduate level and 30-40% at the graduate level.

The clear preference should be merit based admissions of kids from America.

One reason it’s not this way and has become so lopsided in favor of foreign students is because the most “elite” colleges charge double or triple the tuition to these kids. By doing so, these schools have gotten addicted to that revenue. And so slowly, Harvard and Columbia end up with 50-70% foreign students and 2-3% admission rates for Americans.

It’s stupid and is hollowing out our ability to be long term competitive.

Overall, whether it’s this issue, free speech, antisemitism, overgrowth of administrators or limits on academic freedom, there is an immense amount of rot in the Ivy League.

I think that President Trump has decided to root this out and is targeting it. I support it 1000%. If the Ivy League are forced to change, the broader academic community will have to follow suit, and American kids will benefit.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

AI has upended the once "safe" CS career path.

New grads are facing unemployment rates twice those of art history majors, and a CS degree is no longer a surefire ticket to wealth. At the same time, small, focused teams are scaling from zero to eight-figure revenue in months.

In a special Lightcone Live at AI Startup School, Garry, Diana, Harj, and Jared discuss why it's now more important than ever to focus on building real skills, domain expertise, and agency rather than just chasing credentials.

04:18 - The Inverted Career Risk Paradigm
05:16 - AI's Impact on Education and Skills
07:08 - Agency vs. Credential Maxing
08:28 - Motivation: Fear or Excitement
09:43 - The Accelerated Growth of AI Startups
10:50 - Real Success over Fake Credentials
12:55 - Domain Expertise and Technical Expertise
15:05 - Gaining Domain Expertise as a Student
18:51 - Breaking the Student Mindset
20:39 - The Dangers of Entrepreneurship Programs
22:52 - Social Media Strategy for Startups
27:30 - The College Dropout Question
32:33 - When to Quit Your Job

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

Today was an even better day.
Ripple: 3
SEC: 0

In all seriousness, Chris and I (in a case involving no claims of fraud or misrepresentations) were targeted by the SEC in a ruthless attempt to personally ruin us and the company so many have worked hard to build for over a decade.

The SEC repeatedly kept its eye off the ball while secretly meeting with the likes of SBF – failing again and again to protect US consumers & businesses. How many millions of taxpayer $ were wasted?!
Feels good to finally be vindicated.

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

Hoping yesterday’s decision is the wake-up call that Congress needs. This ruling directly undercuts the SEC’s claims that nearly all tokens are inherently securities – likely to set a positive precedent for other digital tokens in the US.

[sean o'malley @seanomalley]

@BluexTrade partners with Yang Ming Line --> demonstrates the power of it's platform in helping ocean carriers with instant quoting, booking and dynamic pricing.

[Eric Johnson @LogTechEric]

Really important development in container shipping instant quoting today. @BluexTrade has helped Yang Ming Line build a digital quoting and booking tool, similar to what it did for Evergreen Line a year ago. https://t.co/JXdLhOOPVC @JOC_Updates

[SmartBiz @SmartBizBank]

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Get information on what you need to apply, as well as terms and conditions on our website:

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[sean o'malley @seanomalley]

Really important small business tax bill insights from @SmlBizMajority@SmlBizMajority https://t.co/LLjfoBIhBN

[sean o'malley @seanomalley]

SmartBiz Loans is up for a global fintech award! https://t.co/mYykoESNVK via @BZAwards

[sean o'malley @seanomalley]

Proud to see SmartBiz up for another FinTech Award. https://t.co/Nruz2KhK6J

[sean o'malley @seanomalley]

Looking forward to it! https://t.co/OJxZRqZqZ5

[SFMOMA @SFMOMA]

The next #50Artists talk on Fri 1/6 features @thingquarterly's co-founder Jonn Herschend on Susan O'Malley. Join us onsite + @periscopeco!

[sean o'malley @seanomalley]

Fintech in greater Asia lags most of the world in many areas...but for how long? https://t.co/uf41Ocgtjz

[sean o'malley @seanomalley]

Pretty amazing origination growth by non-traditional players in the marketplace lending space. Is it only a matter o…https://t.co/huz2KLxMvH

[sean o'malley @seanomalley]

Nice to see Mae being recognized for her innovative work in the legal industry! https://t.co/33fiXVuSMb

[sean o'malley @seanomalley]

Why have small business owners been forgotten in this election so far? https://t.co/gEdjbudBXQ