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The AI Cycle Is Here: Should Web3 Entrepreneurs Pivot to AI?

The article discusses whether Web3 entrepreneurs should pivot to AI amid the growing AI trend, using the metaphor of "raising lobsters" to symbolize the current hype. It notes that while Web3 projects are exploring AI agents for blockchain interactions, identity systems, and payments, many teams are merely chasing narratives rather than building sustainable products. The author cautions against abrupt shifts to AI, highlighting the high barriers, intense competition, and the risk of abandoning hard-earned Web3 expertise. Instead, they suggest a hybrid approach: leveraging Web3’s strengths—such as decentralized data verification, identity management, and micro-payment systems—to address AI’s unresolved challenges like data provenance, agent collaboration, and automated settlements. Key considerations for Web3 teams include assessing their core competencies (e.g., data infrastructure, identity protocols, or application layers), identifying real-world use cases with paying users, and evaluating existing resources (data networks, developer ecosystems) to avoid building in isolation. The goal is to abandon narrative-driven pivots and focus on practical integrations where crypto and AI complement each other.

marsbit03/19 00:33

The AI Cycle Is Here: Should Web3 Entrepreneurs Pivot to AI?

marsbit03/19 00:33

WEEX Labs: The Lobster Craze, What Can Agentic Economy Bring to Web3?

WEEX Labs: The Rise of OpenClaw and What Agentic Economy Brings to Web3 NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently praised OpenClaw as the "largest, most popular, and most successful open-source project in human history." This AI agent, developed by a former Apple engineer, gained 320,000 GitHub stars in just three months, surpassing Linux and React. Its logo resembles a lobster claw, hence the nickname "Lobster" in Chinese communities. Unlike traditional AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude, which primarily respond to queries, OpenClaw represents a shift towards autonomous execution. It can take over operating systems, autonomously use browsers, code executors, APIs, and iMessage, planning and performing tasks until completion. Its official skill marketplace, ClawHub, already offers over 27,000 skills, expanding its capabilities. This development signals the beginning of the Agentic Economy, where AI evolves from conversational tools to proactive doers. Web3 is identified as the ideal ecosystem for this growth due to its native compatibility with autonomous, code-driven interactions. Key integrations include: - The x402 protocol enabling autonomous payments and model switching. - ERC-8004 providing portable reputation and identity. - ClawPay, ClawCredit, and ClawRouter facilitating private payments, native credit, and routing. - Stablecoins like USDT and USDC serving as 24/7 banking for agents. Notable projects leveraging this synergy include KITE (a PoAI L1 blockchain for agents), Pieverse (enabling gasless on-chain transactions via messaging apps), and GoPlus Security’s SafuSkill (a security-focused skills marketplace). Meme tokens like "Lobster" have also emerged, capitalizing on the trend. The article concludes that OpenClaw’s rise marks a new phase—Agentic Era—where AI agents can perform 24/7 transactions, collaboration, and entrepreneurship, driving new DeFi narratives and on-chain activity.

marsbit03/18 10:34

WEEX Labs: The Lobster Craze, What Can Agentic Economy Bring to Web3?

marsbit03/18 10:34

You've Been Training Google's AI for Free for 15 Years, Completely Unaware

For 15 years, Google has leveraged reCAPTCHA to harness free human labor to train its AI, unbeknownst to users. Initially created to digitize books by having users transcribe distorted text, the system evolved under Google's ownership. With reCAPTCHA v2, users were tasked with identifying objects like traffic lights and crosswalks in images from Google Street View. This provided massive, free training data for Google's computer vision models, directly benefiting products like Google Maps and the autonomous vehicle company Waymo, valued at $45 billion. At its peak, 200 million reCAPTCHAs were solved daily, amounting to 500,000 hours of free human labor—worth an estimated $5 million per day at minimum wage. This data-labeling operation, embedded as a mandatory gateway to essential websites, was unparalleled in scale and cost-efficiency. The latest version, reCAPTCHA v3, invisibly analyzes user behavior to verify humanity, further feeding AI systems. The profound irony is that users spent years proving they were human by performing tasks AI couldn't do, thereby training the very systems that now make their contributions obsolete. Google never asked for consent, paid for this labor, or disclosed its purpose, turning the entire internet-using population into unwitting, unpaid trainers for its commercial AI empire.

marsbit03/18 09:32

You've Been Training Google's AI for Free for 15 Years, Completely Unaware

marsbit03/18 09:32

Oaktree Capital's Marks: Investors Underestimate the Impact of AI

Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks warns that investors are significantly underestimating the profound and unpredictable impact of artificial intelligence. He argues that AI's transformative power is accompanied by inherent unpredictability—what it will do, what it won't do, and the extent of human job displacement—making traditional investment strategies based on future predictions insufficient. Citing Block's recent layoff of 4,000 employees as an example, Marks highlights the market's failure to grasp the depth of AI's disruption. He expresses caution about the cyclical nature of technology-driven market exuberance, noting that new innovations often hide risks until it's too late. Regarding investment strategy, Marks strongly advocates for equity over debt financing in AI companies. He believes that if investors are taking on fundamental business model risks posed by AI, they should participate as owners to capture the potential rewards, rather than as fixed-income investors.

marsbit03/18 02:00

Oaktree Capital's Marks: Investors Underestimate the Impact of AI

marsbit03/18 02:00

x402 Wish List

"x402 Wish List" explores the potential of x402 as a micro-payment and data aggregation protocol, based on a Galaxy Research report. It highlights a use case where an AI agent uses x402 to query weather data, book trips, and manage payments to various data sources. The author envisions x402 enabling new business models, such as pay-per-use "Skills Endpoints" for AI agents, replacing fixed fees with usage-based pricing. Other proposed applications include curated data streams for niche crypto news, aggregated ecosystem metrics, a tracker for media prediction performance, and a security/audit incident aggregator. The summary concludes by questioning the economic viability of micro-payments at scale and the legal challenges of data sourcing, noting that x402 V2's revenue-sharing features could help align incentives between data aggregators and original providers.

marsbit03/17 12:24

x402 Wish List

marsbit03/17 12:24

Stratechery Overturns the AI Bubble Theory: What Should We Use AI For?

Stratechery's Ben Thompson revises his stance on the AI bubble debate, arguing that current AI investment reflects structural growth driven by fundamental technological shifts, not speculation. He identifies three key transitions in LLM development: ChatGPT’s debut (making AI broadly usable but unreliable), OpenAI’s o1 (introducing reasoning and reliability), and the recent emergence of true Agent systems (e.g., Anthropic’s Opus 4.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.2-Codex). The critical innovation is the "agent harness"—a control layer that autonomously schedules models, uses tools, and verifies outcomes, reducing human intervention. This transforms AI from an assistive tool into an actionable infrastructure, enabling complex task execution. Agentic systems drive surging demand for compute, as they require repeated model calls and higher usage frequency. Thompson emphasizes that AI demand now depends not on user numbers, but on per-user agent utilization. Enterprises are adopting AI not only for efficiency gains but for structural workforce reduction, as agents amplify the impact of key employees while lowering coordination costs. He concludes that massive capital expenditures are justified by real demand, and profits will flow to integrated model-harness providers rather than commoditized standalone models.

marsbit03/17 03:57

Stratechery Overturns the AI Bubble Theory: What Should We Use AI For?

marsbit03/17 03:57

Karpathy Deletes Repository in Emergency! AI Job Apocalypse Chart Goes Viral, 60 Million White-Collar Jobs at Risk

Karpathy's viral project, "karpathy.ai/jobs," analyzed 342 U.S. occupations using AI (Gemini Flash) to assign an "AI exposure" risk score (0-10). The findings revealed an average exposure of 4.9, with 42% of jobs (59.9 million positions) scoring 7 or higher, indicating high automation risk. High-risk roles are primarily screen-dependent and information-dense, including software developers (9/10), financial analysts (9/10), lawyers (8/10), and office clerks (9/10). The most secure jobs involve complex manual labor, such as plumbers, construction workers, and cleaners, which are difficult to automate. Higher-paying and degree-requiring jobs are more significant exposure. Karpathy later removed the project, clarifying it was a quick personal experiment that was overinterpreted. A supporting Harvard study confirms AI is already causing a "great reassignment," reducing hiring in highly automatable roles while increasing it in AI-augmented ones, highlighting a bifurcation in the white-collar job market.

marsbit03/16 11:44

Karpathy Deletes Repository in Emergency! AI Job Apocalypse Chart Goes Viral, 60 Million White-Collar Jobs at Risk

marsbit03/16 11:44

Amid the OpenClaw Craze, CEXs Vie for AI Agent Trading Entry Points

Amid the OpenClaw trend, CEXs are competing to become the primary trading interface for AI Agents, rather than passively serving as liquidity providers. The core question is whether exchanges will retreat to the backend or proactively position themselves as the default financial infrastructure for Agents. While many portray the shift from trading apps to dialog-based interfaces as revolutionary, current practical applications are more limited—focusing primarily on research, filtering, alerts, and conditional judgments. Execution remains challenging due to unresolved issues around permissions, confirmation mechanisms, error handling, and liability. Therefore, the initial competition will likely center on perfecting pre-trade functionalities rather than full automation. Exchanges are now racing to modularize their trading capabilities, design secure permission systems, and secure default integration within platforms like Claude, OpenClaw, and ChatGPT. Although it is too early to predict whether this will reshape the industry structure, it is clear that trust and user habits cannot be built overnight. The key takeaway is that the industry is confronting a concrete emerging question: as AI Agents gradually take over parts of the trading workflow, who will become the default crypto financial operating system?

marsbit03/16 06:11

Amid the OpenClaw Craze, CEXs Vie for AI Agent Trading Entry Points

marsbit03/16 06:11

Daniil and David Liberman: AI is Not Just a Battle of Models, But a Battle of Computing Infrastructure

In the article "Daniil and David Liberman: AI Is Not Just a Battle of Models, but a Battle of Compute Infrastructure," the authors argue that the core of AI development is not just about algorithmic advances but control over computational resources. They emphasize that AI is not a neutral technology—who owns and governs the compute infrastructure ultimately determines who benefits from AI. Currently, advanced AI compute is highly concentrated among a few cloud providers and specific nations, creating a growing "compute divide." This centralization leads to high costs, limited access, and geographic imbalance. Decentralized alternatives, meanwhile, often waste resources on consensus mechanisms rather than meaningful computation. The authors propose a practical alternative: an infrastructure where most compute is used for actual AI work, governance is based on verified computational effort (not capital), and global GPU access is permissionless. They stress that infrastructure choices made today will have long-term economic and geopolitical consequences. For businesses, early reliance on centralized AI infrastructure creates lock-in effects that reduce strategic flexibility over time. The authors warn that waiting too long to explore decentralized options may make transition prohibitively difficult. They conclude that future generations must recognize that AI architecture is a deliberate design choice—not an inevitability—and that open, decentralized infrastructure is essential to preserving fairness, innovation, and freedom in the AI era.

marsbit03/16 03:19

Daniil and David Liberman: AI is Not Just a Battle of Models, But a Battle of Computing Infrastructure

marsbit03/16 03:19

Which Areas Still Have Moats in the AI Era?

In the AI era, certain moats remain despite rapid technological advancement. The author, a former hedge fund manager, argues that the true inflection point occurred when AI models like ChatGPT’s o1 began generating functional code—even with imperfections—enabling recursive self-optimization and fundamentally altering software development. Key short-term moats identified include: 1. **Proprietary Data**: Firms with unique, inaccessible data (e.g., multi-strategy hedge funds) can fine-tune models, creating defensible advantages. 2. **Regulatory Friction**: Industries requiring human approval (e.g., traditional finance) face slower disruption due to compliance and legal barriers. 3. **Authority-as-a-Service**: Human trust in institutional authority (e.g., legal or audit services) persists even if AI outperforms humans technically. 4. **Physical World Lag**: Hardware-dependent sectors evolve slower, delaying full AI integration. However, these moats only delay, not prevent, disruption. The author emphasizes acting on signals rather than waiting for certainty: identify directional trends, place asymmetric bets (limited downside, high upside), and iterate through action. As AI accelerates, windows of opportunity close quickly. To remain relevant, humans must excel in long-term strategy, complex system-level thinking, and collaboration—areas where AI still lags. The time to act is now, before markets price in the obvious.

marsbit03/15 05:35

Which Areas Still Have Moats in the AI Era?

marsbit03/15 05:35

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