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Why China's "Thousand Model War" is a Risk to US National Security | BPH Ep 42

AI is officially a national security issue and Washington is moving fast. The Bitcoin Policy Institute's Zack Cohen, Zack Shapiro, and Ken Egan break down Palantir and Nvidia's sovereign on-prem AI architecture, OpenAI's government-coordinated 5.6 rollout, and reports that Beijing may curb exports …

#206 - How lawyers are using AI in 2026

By the end of this episode, you'll understand how lawyers are actually AI maxxing in 2026, and how you can, too. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:58 Why it's the best time to be a lawyer 3:03 Hallucinations and cognitive surrender 5:33 Quality over efficiency 8:13 Why AI upends legal work 15:20 60% of con…

China's AI Gambit vs. America's Data Center Backlash: The New Tech Cold War

Is China's open-source AI strategy a values shift or a game-theoretic bluff? On this episode of The Bitcoin Policy Hour, the BPI team argues it's the latter and explains what happens when Chinese chips catch up to Nvidia. They dig into the Dean Ball vs. David Sacks debate over regulating Chinese mo…

Situational Awareness Gets Liquidated, META/MSFT Earnings, TeraWulf Cleared for Morgantown Acquisition

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness dominated headlines today when reporting surfaced that the wunderkind’s AI hedge fund sold all of its public positions to Citadel. For other news, we cover Meta and Microsoft's quarterly earnings, TeraWulf receivi…

Even the Government Gets Robbed: Why the US Needs Bitcoin Custody Standards | BPH Ep 44

The government keeps getting robbed of its own Bitcoin and a new bill wants to fix that. The BPI team breaks down the American Reserve Modernization Act (ARMA): what it would do for Treasury custody standards, why it has Democratic co-sponsors, and why they're bullish it could pass the House. They …

AI Is About to Split Society in Two | Zack Shapiro

“The people who are truly productive are going to be on a rocket ship.” AI is about to split society in two: those who learn to command it and those whose value it destroys. Zack Shapiro, Head of Policy at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, explains why AI could dismantle the traditional white-c…

Big Tech Gets AI. BlackRock Gets Bitcoin. You Get Prosecuted | Zack Shapiro

Mentor Sessions Ep 096: Zack Shapiro explains AI existential risk, AI regulation, the Clarity Act, Samurai Wallet, and open source AI policy for Bitcoin. The Clarity Act just failed on the Senate floor, and the fight over whether writing Bitcoin code can be treated as a crime is now heading to 70-…

"Four Horsemen Of The Diesel Apocalypse" Are Coming For Europe | Doomberg & Lavish

Mentor Sessions Ep 097: James Lavish and Doomberg break down the 2026 bond market crisis, Europe's diesel shortage, private credit risk, and Bitcoin as a macro asset. Bond yields near 20-year highs, Europe staring down a diesel shortage, and private credit quietly marking its own books — the plumb…

Somebody Has To Eat The 40 Trillion Dollar Loss | Jack Mallers

Mentor Sessions Ep 098: Jack Mallers explains monetizing chaos, dollar debasement, the ColdCard incident, El Salvador and why Bitcoin is the most American technology. Jack Mallers argues the entire fiat system forces everyone into speculation whether they know it or not — and Bitcoin is how you ta…

A Future Worth Surviving For | Freedom Tech DC 2026

Zack Shapiro examines the challenge of addressing advanced AI risks while preserving freedom, privacy, and human control. He discusses alignment, the dangers of concentrated power, and principles for evidence-based safeguards focused on frontier capabilities, alongside open models, independent rese…