Daily TEA- AI Darwin Awards, China’s AI Edge, and Justin Sun’s Blacklist?

AI Innovation Risks, China’s Tech Ambitions, Justin Sun’s CCP Ties, Global Crypto Adoption, Zuckerberg Sues Zuckerberg, and more.

Hello, dear TEA-mates, here's what you need to know today.

1. 🎉 AI Darwin Awards Nominees 2025?

AIDarwinAwards.org highlights 2025 nominees for absurd AI mishaps, celebrating innovation’s unintended consequences with over 500,000 votes. Five examples include: (1) a self-driving car stuck in a 12-hour loop, (2) an AI chatbot approving a $1 million scam, (3) a robotic vacuum cleaning a pet’s fur into a hazardous pile, (4) an AI weather forecast predicting snow in a desert, and (5) a smart home system locking residents out after misinterpreting a command. Read More: AIDarwinAwards.org

☕ TEA For Thought: This is definitely fun to read. When it comes to innovation, if we always ask “should we” first, nothing grand will ever be built, as it’s led by fear. The ethics questions will always be here. It’s just how we address it. After all, the bad actors will always be there and they are even leading the efforts to build even more advanced technology. Just like when developed, civilized countries like the US are busy regulating AI and crypto, countries like CCP-led China are using all the national resources to build AI, build their own currencies to expand the crypto network.

2. 🇨🇳 China’s AI Leadership Sparks Debate?

The Financial Times reports that Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI firm, will stop selling Claude AI services to Chinese majority-owned entities, effective immediately, to limit Beijing’s access for military or intelligence use. This policy, impacting companies like ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba, aligns with U.S. concerns about China’s $15 billion AI investment in 2024 and 40% of global AI patents. The move, costing Anthropic low hundreds of millions in revenue, reflects rising tensions and follows DeepSeek’s R1 model controversy, amid limited new Trump-era export controls. Read More: Financial Times

☕ TEA For Thought: This might just be the beginning. One thing that can’t be stressed enough is that the Chinese government is not the same as the Chinese people. The CCP can’t represent Chinese people as well. In fact, the top scientists and researchers in AI are mostly composed of Chinese people, born either in China or in the US. It’s just such a shame that the CCP is so shady and always hides behind Chinese people and claims that Chinese people chose them, and they can just represent them. Whatever the CCP does is supported by the Chinese people, which is absolutely not the case.

3. ⚠️ World Liberty Financial Blacklists Justin Sun?

Yahoo Finance reports that World Liberty Financial (WLFI), linked to Donald Trump, blacklisted Tron founder Justin Sun’s address on September 4, 2025, freezing 595 million WLFI tokens worth $107 million due to suspicious outbound transactions, including a $9 million transfer. Sun, a key investor with a $75 million stake, denied market impact, urging WLFI to unlock his tokens, citing fairness. The token price dropped 20% in 24 hours and 42% since its September 1 debut. Read More: Yahoo Finance

☕ TEA For Thought: Justin Sun’s tie to the CCP is no secret. I am curious to see why and how this saga will unfold.

4. 🌐 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index?

Chainalysis ranks India first in the 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index, with APAC leading with a 69% growth to $2.36 trillion in transaction volume, driven by India, Vietnam, and Pakistan. North America (2nd, $2.2 trillion) and Europe ($2.6 trillion) dominate institutionally, with stablecoins USDT and USDC processing over $1 trillion monthly. Population-adjusted rankings highlight Eastern Europe (e.g., Ukraine 1st), reflecting grassroots adoption amid economic instability. Read More: Chainalysis

☕ TEA For Thought: What is missing is China, a country that claims that doing crypto-anything related business is illegal, yet has one of the most active crypto trading. What is happening is that CCP government officials use it as a way to launder money—which is basically an open secret. And that folks in China use crypto for moving their assets from China to overseas, especially when the assets are large, moving assets outside of China is under ruthless scrutiny. Therefore, the data can’t seem to be tracked here.

5. 😂 Mark Zuckerberg Sues Mark Zuckerberg?

TechCrunch covers a September 4, 2025, lawsuit where Indiana bankruptcy lawyer Mark Zuckerberg sues Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over repeated Facebook page disables, costing him $11,000 in ads. The lawyer, using his real name since before the CEO’s birth, faces impersonation flags, receiving death threats and losing business, prompting the $10 million claim. Meta is investigating. Read More: TechCrunch

☕ TEA For Thought: This is pretty funny. Also scary in a sense that the ones that are in control of the system are super powerful and would just have more powers.

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