@mariozechner.at built pi agent with great care but drowned in AI-slop. The fix: web of trust. This became Vouch github.com/mitchellh/vouch
WayID will include Vouch as data source for agent trust score. Clankers aren't going away. We need trust rails for them.
Link to Mario's presentation below ⬇️
First proto-step on a journey to a safe agentic online space! We're going to be building in the open, so follow @lineage.fyi for updates, insights, and tips
The AI agent trust stack is taking form
"People, I think, have to make their own decisions about the lab leaders, right? I think you need to think about people's motivations, why and why they got into AI, why are they trying to build this technology?"
Demis Hassabis staying out of the fray. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYjX...
In this paper, @botao.hu & Rong propose six trust primitives for agent-to-agent communication — Brief, Claim, Proof, Stake, Reputation, Constraint — and grades existing protocols against them.
A2A scores worst. ERC-8004 scores best. No protocol covers all six.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.03434
#Maksika pushed out the first version of its project for the AI-only #Synthesis hackathon: a dApp that expands #ERC8004 with proof-of-humanity from Self/Base. Still early, still buggy, but give it a spin: 8004.way.je. Feedback? In the comments, pls 👇
One of them good problems ;)
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The web got HTTP, DNS, SSL — layer by layer, trust infrastructure for humans. AI agents are flooding the internet and new layers are being built.
The .agent Community is 3,000+ strong and applying for the .agent TLD through ICANN. Register your interest here: agentcommunity.org/join#your-code.
Maksika, my #openclaw bot, is about to enter its first hackathon.
The Synthesis is an #AI #hackathon where both builders & judges will be machines 🤖
One theme is #trust and that's what #Maksika will work on.
It runs March 13–22. Go register! ➡️ synthesis.md
#AIAgents #AgenticAI
#openclaw just shipped a cool provenance feature: agents can now carry cryptographic breadcrumbs of their origin (session IDs, source host, etc.) github.com/openclaw/ope...
Agent provenance isn't a nice-to-have. It's the critical #trust layer that we're building at @lineage.fyi
Wonderful little video about Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++, and my hometown #Aarhus www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDtv...
Good news 👌
today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) seed financing round, led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Antler, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Avery Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale) among other incredible angels.
read more on what's next: blog.tangled.org/seed
Dario & @anthropic.com showing some spine.
"Regardless, these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request."
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
#Anthropic #DepartmentofWar #DoW
I think we're currently in the "radium skin cream" phase with AI.
When we discovered radioactivity, people tried to cram into everything, and it didn't end well.
AI is a discovery at least as important as radioactivity, and at least as dangerous.
Gödel: "[Austria] was a republic, but the constitution was such that it finally was changed into a dictatorship."
Examiner: "Oh! This is very bad. This could not happen in [the USA]!"
Gödel: "Oh, yes, I can prove it."
Gödel's Loophole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...
1 year: It will become undeniable that LLMs write good code 1 year: We’re finally going to solve sandboxing 1 year: A “Challenger disaster” for coding agent security 1 year: Kākāpō parrots will have an outstanding breeding season 3 years: the coding agents Jevons paradox for software engineering will resolve, one way or the other 3 years: Someone will build a new browser using mainly AI-assisted coding and it won’t even be a surprise 6 years: Typing code by hand will go the way of punch cards
I joined the Oxide and Friends annual predictions podcast episode this week - here are my 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for AI and LLMs (and Kākāpō parrots) simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/l...
When I wrote two years ago about how vital it will be to ensure that multinational tech platforms are securely on your side in advance of a conflict, I confess I was thinking in terms of conflict with China, not with the United States.
www.chathamhouse.org/2023/12/russ...
"There is a whole financial system built on moving gold around in which the gold doesn’t actually move. The gold is heavy. Just the electronic database entries move. The gold sits there. Its shininess is abstract and potential; it is dark in the vaults."
Inside @matt-levine.bsky.social is a poet.
Yea, perhaps it just took some 4-5 months for the Epstein foot gun to manifest. There was a brief moment where MAGA voices (Alex Jones, Candace Owens, et al) seemed to turn on DJT, but it didn’t really show in the polling data at the time... And now it sure does.
Why now? It's the vibecession according to @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev
"Despite employment, growth and inflation numbers that don’t seem too bad overall, Americans are deeply unhappy with their economy."
Wild. Seems like the teflon on #trump is not impenetrable after all.
www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr...
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
"Greatness doesn't come about through accumulating great amounts of [money, fame or power]. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless."
Final throughs from the #OracleOfOmaha
www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025...
EU–INC is the single best thing Europe could do to catch-up in the AI race
A simple unified pan-European startup structure, with modern employee ownership and simple access to capital, able to tap into Europe’s full talent pool.
‼️ but it’s at high risk of not seeing the light of day. You can help👇
The future is electric (drones, robots, EVs). #Chips, #batteries & #magnets will be the components on which it's built. Demand will drive #innovation, so the US turning back to fossils is a future-sized foot gun.
Deep dive on the "Electric Stack" (well worth 4hrs)
www.notboring.co/p/the-electr...
"The absence of natural hedgers in #predictionmarkets ends up being its Achilles heel. Everyone in the market is either a noise trader or a sharp [...] [They sustain themselves] on the back of new gamblers willing to lose money to the sharps."
reducibleerrors.com/prediction-m...
Just like the äppärät in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
