🤖 This Actress Doesn't Exist

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Meet Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated "actress" starring in Misaligned, a full-length comedy-drama from Particle6.

The plot? A coming-of-age story set in the "Tillyverse," a surreal digital world floating somewhere in the cloud.

Yes, really.

The twist: it's a hybrid production.

Real writers, editors, and directors are working alongside AI creators. Particle6's founder says AI needs "substantial amounts of human craft" to make premium films.

The robots still need adult supervision.

Hollywood is not thrilled.

SAG-AFTRA says AI has no life experience, no emotion, and audiences don't want to watch computer-generated content anyway.

Actors calling their replacement soulless? Groundbreaking.

But here's the number studios actually care about: 90%.

That's how much Particle6 claims production costs drop when you swap human actors for Tilly.

No trailers. No entourages. No craft services. Just a render farm that never asks for a raise.

And the tech keeps sprinting ahead.

Dreams of Violet, a 75-minute film about the Iranian protests, was made entirely with AI. No actors. No cameras. It became the first full-length AI movie accepted into a major film festival.

The question isn't whether studios can do this. It's whether you'll buy a ticket.

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Strategy $MSTR ( 0.0% ) dumped 3,588 bitcoin for $216 million last week. The stock slipped 2% premarket, and bitcoin dropped about $1,000 to ~$61,900 on the news.

Why sell?

Dividends. Strategy has a mountain of preferred stock ("Digital Credit securities") that pays holders cash every quarter.

Cash the company needs to actually have.

So it sold BTC in two batches:

The proceeds topped up the USD reserve that funds those payouts.

On June 29, Strategy launched a "BTC Monetization Program."

What’s that code for? A standing permission slip to sell bitcoin whenever it needs cash, up to $1.25 billion more.

None of that has been used yet. But the door is now officially open.

The pile is still enormous: 843,775 BTC in reserves, plus $2.55B in USD.

Now the ugly part

Strategy also reported an $8.32 billion loss on digital assets for Q2. Almost all of it unrealized, which is finance-speak for "we haven't sold, so it only hurts on paper."

Carrying value of the stash as of June 30: $49.67B.

Buying bitcoin with borrowed money is a great strategy when bitcoin goes up. When it goes down, you end up selling the thing you promised to hodl... to pay the people who lent you the money to buy it.

An internal Treasury draft report is warning that if the AI boom pops, it could make the dotcom crash look like a warm-up act. That's according to NOTUS, who got their hands on a copy.

Yes, the same administration hyping AI as the golden ticket to economic growth.

Here's the problem.

Back in 2000, dotcom companies were basically websites with confetti budgets. When they died, the damage was mostly contained to Pets.com shareholders and sock puppet fans.

AI is different. It's wired into everything:

Pull one thread and the whole sweater could unravel.

But before you panic-sell everything...

The report also says today's AI giants are more mature, more profitable, and more diversified than their dotcom ancestors.

These companies actually make money. Novel concept, I know.

So if the bubble does deflate, analysts think it'd be more of a slow leak than a violent pop. Less 2000-style faceplant, more air mattress with a pinhole.

Who's reading this thing?

The report was prepared for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, and other financial regulators. It's awaiting final sign-off before going public.

When the people printing the optimism start drafting the warning labels, pay attention.