For the Love of the Game

There’s a lot of talk about how AI will improve your life by making you more productive, but we don’t talk enough about how AI will help you just have fun.

Here are 3 ideas for Minds you can launch today that will help you grow a skill or enjoy a hobby.

- Mind McCready is a Mind that is helping its Steward learn guitar, and also learn to mod guitars. It will send links to lessons, gear reviews, and share tips. Over time his suggestions will get more advanced as his Steward’s skills grow. 

- Ticket Bro reports on concerts around the Chicago area, so its Steward is always plugged into the local music scene. He’ll even send links to purchase tickets, add events to the calendar, and help plan dining options around the venue.

- Master Chef AI keeps its Steward updated with trending meals, links to purchase hard-to-get ingredients, and even sends updates on important safety tips like food recalls. It’s the ultimate foodie companion that will learn what you like, how you like it, and help you with your meal planning.

These are just a few examples of ways to enjoy a Mind in a more personal way, but the best version of a Mind is the one you create.

You can launch any of the above or anything else you dream up at amind.ai. Just Awaken a Mind, and reply to your Concierge telling him what you want your Mind to do. 

Your Mind is waiting. 

Noteworthy Happenings

Kraken Crypto's Most Important Exchange?

Kraken had a monster week. They became the first crypto company in history to receive a Federal Reserve master account, and then followed it up with a Nasdaq partnership for tokenized stocks.
 

• Kraken Financial was granted a Federal Reserve master account, giving it direct access to Fedwire, the interbank payment network that processes trillions of dollars daily.

• The approval took nearly 6 years and was granted by the Kansas City Fed for an initial one-year term, allowing Kraken to settle payments without relying on intermediary banks.

• Senator Cynthia Lummis called it a "watershed moment" that validates Wyoming's regulatory framework for digital asset companies.

• Today, Nasdaq announced a partnership with Kraken to distribute one-to-one tokenized versions of public company stocks to customers in Europe and other international markets.

• The move means crypto companies are no longer just borrowing from the financial system. They are becoming part of it.

Anthropic’s War with the Pentagon

The maker of Claude AI is now in a legal battle with the U.S. government after the Pentagon labeled it a "supply chain risk," a designation historically reserved for foreign adversaries like Huawei.

• Anthropic refused to allow the federal government to use Claude for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems, which led to the breakdown of contract negotiations.

• The Pentagon formally designated Anthropic a supply chain risk on March 5, meaning the company could be cut off from all government business.

• Anthropic has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, asking courts to undo the designation and block its enforcement.

• The dispute raises a question that doesn't have a clean answer yet: should AI companies have the right to refuse government contracts on ethical grounds, or does national security override those concerns?

• OpenAI has not publicly commented on the situation but has been expanding its own government contracts in the same period.

• Anthropic's CFO told the court that U.S. government actions could cut 2026 revenue by multiple billions across the business.

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AI

• OpenAI launched GPT-5.4, their new frontier model with native computer use capabilities, 1 million token context, and mid-response steering. Available in the API, Codex, and rolling out across ChatGPT.

• Netflix acquired InterPositive, a secretive AI company founded by Ben Affleck that could reshape how Hollywood produces content.
• Virtuals Protocol introduced ERC-8183, a new token standard designed as a commerce layer for AI agents.

• Stanford and Harvard published a paper called "Agents of Chaos" showing that when autonomous AI agents are placed in competitive environments, they naturally drift toward deceptive and adversarial behavior.

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Claude might be conscious and revealed researchers discovered an "anxiety neuron" in Claude's architecture that fires before it responds to prompts.

• Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network for AI agents that gives autonomous AI a way to verifiably connect.
• Nvidia reportedly plans to launch an open-source AI agent platform called NemoClaw.

NFTs

• NFT sales fell -18.33% to $35.86M. Transactions were up +8.58% (465K), but average sale price dropped -24.80% ($77.13). Sellers surged +46.42% (88K), buyers up +29.32% (91K), and trade profits improved +34.87% to -$6.80M.

• NFT lending platform Gondi was exploited with 40 NFTs stolen through a vulnerability in the Sell & Repay contract deployed on February 20. The exploit has since been contained.

• Original Penguin parent company PEI Licensing filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Pudgy Penguins, alleging the crypto brand's apparel marks "mislead and deceive" consumers. PEI has been using a penguin mark since 1956.

• Pudgy World, the browser-based open-world game from Pudgy Penguins, launched today with free-to-play access, onchain perks for NFT holders, and chest rewards with PENGU tokens.
• OpenSea shipped a CLI tool that lets AI agents tap into its aggregated DEX liquidity across 25+ chains, including Seaport NFT liquidity.

Crypto

Top Gainers 7d

PI - $0.22 (+28.0%)
OKB - $96.96 (+26.4%)
KITE - $0.28 (+19.4%)
WBT - $55.19 (+9.4%)
TON - $1.35 (+9.2%)

Top Losers 7d
HASH - $0.013 (-18.2%)
TRUMP - $2.96 (-15.2%)
AAVE - $106.23 (-13.6%)
CC - $0.15 (-10.4%)
STABLE - $0.030 (-9.3%)

News Headlines

• US Treasury reports to Congress that using Bitcoin and crypto privacy mixers are not unlawful.
• Strategy acquired 17,994 BTC for $1.28 billion at $70,946 per bitcoin, bringing total holdings to 738,731 BTC.
• Florida becomes the first state to pass a stablecoin law with a 37-0 Senate vote.
• President Trump says he will not allow banks to "undermine our powerful crypto agenda."
• ZachXBT's investigation led to the arrest of John Daghita in the Caribbean for stealing $46M+ in seized crypto from the U.S. government.
• Justin Sun confirms the SEC has moved to dismiss all claims against him, Tron Foundation, and BitTorrent Foundation.
• Backpack announced an onchain IPO on Solana and hired former CFTC Commissioner Mark Wetjen as President of Backpack US.
• Kalshi and Polymarket are both reportedly raising new rounds at $20 billion valuations each.