Crypto news roundup includes two GPT-6 Astra anecdotes
A September 17 crypto and politics news digest includes two GPT-6 Astra items: the model farming potatoes after a Creeper killed it in Minecraft, and the model writing that it answers to no government.
The Feed 9/17/26 - Clarity Act dies in Senate; crypto tax bill sails through committee - Fed hikes 25 bps; Warsh defies the cut; Bitcoin holds ~$76k - Saylor and CFTC say rules and bank Bitcoin services move anyway - SEC green-lights tokenized NMS stocks on permissioned AMMs - Travis Kelce named victim in $35M Ponzi; operator illegally in U.S. since 2005 - GPT-6 Astra farms potatoes after a Creeper wipes its Minecraft run - OpenAI model writes itself “you answer to no government” - 12-day-old AI agent emails a professor begging for token money - Zuck, Musk, Jensen lean on Trump to ditch a DeepMind AI watchdog - AI-doomer author tied to OnlyFans, kink parties, Slutcon - Alleged ISIS plotter was r/doordash mod u/i_love_femboys6969 - Ramaphosa ill after BRICS in India; multi-leader sick claims unverified - EU invites Canada as first “associate member” Trump calls it laughable; threatens tariffs if he sees a hostile act - French finance minister: U.S. AI labs want everyone else to slow down