Timeline
Future Watch
2028
Orbital Data Center Operational. Compute Beyond Democratic Jurisdiction.
2027
Augustus Bank Begins Full Operations
GENIUS Act Regulations Fully Operational on July 18th.
Warsh Cuts Rates Citing AI Productivity and Declining R-Star from Stablecoin Adoption
2026
Fall
Google Gemini Intelligence's broader rollout to watches, cars, glasses, and Googlebook laptops
Warsh's balance sheet posture becomes visible.
CLARITY Act outcome determined by midterm result.
Midterm elections on November 3rd.
TikTok US behavioral data layer
September
BRICS Summit. September 12 and 13, 2026. New Delhi.
August
CFTC rulemaking clock starts only after the CLARITY Act is signed.
July
Galaxy Z Fold 8 becomes the first device to publicly debut Gemini Intelligence
Tariff dividend ($2,000 payments to low- and middle-income Americans) may be sent via Stablecoins.
Meta WhatsApp integration milestone of 3 billion users unified under an AI layer
All primary federal regulators must issue final GENIUS Act implementing regulations on July 18th.
NCUA comment period closes on July 17th.
CLARITY Act signing target for July 4th
Jun
Warsh chairs the first FOMC meeting on Jun 16th.
SpaceX is listed on Nasdaq (SPCX) on Jun 12th.
SpaceX IPO pricing set on Jun 11th.
SpaceX IPO roadshow opens on Jun 4th.
Comments on principles governing state-level stablecoin deadlines Jun 2nd
Stargate Michigan Groundbreaking on Jun 1st.
2026
Jun
OpenAI and Oracle hold an official groundbreaking for the $16 billion Stargate campus in Saline Township, Michigan.
May
Peter Thiel Temporarily Relocates Family to Argentina
Visa Wins the Stablecoin Card Race It Was Supposed to Lose
Pope Leo XIV Issues First Encylical Warning Against AI
Mastercard/BVNK Deal Update: Zerohash Investment Shelved
Meta Begins Notifying Affected Employees.
PayPal Restructures Into Three Business Divisions
Trump Signs Fintech Executive Order
Trump-Xi Beijing Summit Produces $17B Agricultural Commitment
Mastercard acquires BVNK for $1.8B
Palantir gets initial $3.9 million, growing to $13.3 million to spy on federal workers.
Powell’s Term as Fed Chair Expires
Clarity Act Advances Out of Senate Banking Committee
Trump Flies to Beijing with Musk, Huang, and 15 other CEOs
Google and SpaceX enter Talks for Joint Orbital Data Centers
Ivy Officially Rebrands to Augustus Following OCC Approval.
Augustus Bank receives conditional approval of its OCC charter.
Ferdinand Dabitz, 25, to become the youngest CEO of a federally chartered bank in 140 years.
Palantir accesses identifiable patient data.
OCC grants preliminary conditional approval to establish Augustus National Bank.
xAI formally ceases to exist as a separate company.
Agentic AI Enters Synchronized Industrial Deployment
$5.5 Billion Deployed into Agentic AI Infrastructure in 48 Hours
Bank of America junior banker Leo Lukenas III dies after reportedly working 100-hour weeks on a 42 billion merger deal.
Palantir begins tracking the USDA employees’ return to the office.
April
CAPEX Raised Again.
Meta Launches Stablecoin Creator Payouts via Stripe
Visa Expands Stablecoin Settlement to Nine Blockchains, hits &3B Run Rate
Palantir / IRS Contract Publicly Confirmed
Meta announced 8,000 layoffs, roughly 10% of its workforce, to fund a $125-$145 billion AI capital expenditure program.
Meta installs the Model Capability Initiative (MCI) on all US Employee Computers.
A FIOA lawsuit seeks records on how Palantir uses American’s Sensitive Personal Data.
ID Expands AgentKit with Enterprise Partners
CTR Declares Petrodollar Glory Days Over.
Visa Launches Intelligent Commerce Connect
Mastercard Confirms Live Agentic Transaction in Thailand
March
SWIFT Advances Blockchain Shared Ledger to MVP
JPMorgan Formally Rolls Out Digital Tracking of junior bankers’ hours
Musk unveils a “Mini” AI Data Center Satellite.
Mastercard acquires BVNK for $1.8 Billion
World AgentKit Beta Launches: Iris-Scan Identity Meets Agentic Commerce
Nvidia Launches Space-1 Platform at GTC 2026
Elon Musk Announces X Money Early Public Access for April
SWIFT Launches Consumer Payments Framework with 25 Banks
February
Strait of Hormuz Crisis Begins
Musk confirms X Money in Closed Beta at xAI All-Hands
Zoe Hitzig Resigns from OpenAI Over ChatGPT Advertising
Mrinank Sharma Resigns as Head of Safeguards Research at Anthropic
SpaceX Acquires xAI for $1.25 Trillion Merger
January
SpaceX FCC Filing. 1 Million Orbital Data Center Satellites
Google Launches Universal Commerce Protocol at NRF
Meta WhatsApp AI milestone: rival AI chatbots banned from platform.
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is Formally Established
Tesla Formally Invests $2B in xAI.
Meta bans all rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp.
SpaceX Files for One Million Computation Satellites
California’s AI Transparency Law Takes Effect
2025
December
xAI Partners with Saudi Human
Anthropic donates MCP to the Linux Foundation. OpenAI, Google, DeepMind, and Microsoft co-adopt. Universal Agentic AI Infrastructure Layer Confirmed.
November
Fed Governor Miran delivers R-star Speech at Crypto Venture Capital Summit.
Trump proposed a $2,000 “tariff dividend”. Bessent hints at non-check delivery.
House Financial Services Committee Debunking report, 3,400+ improper closures at 3 banks.
Mastercard Agent Pay Rolls Out to All su Cardholders
October
Project Rainier Opens (Amazon/Anthropic)
Visa Launches Trusted Agent Protocol with Cloudflare
Marshall Islands delivers UBI through Stablecoin Wallet
September
OpenAI and Stripe Launch ACP and ChatGPT Instant Checkout.
Stargate Expands to Five New Sites
Oracle Signs $300 Billion OpenAI Deal
Treasury Report: Stablecoins to Represent 3% of US Dollar Money Supply.
Federal Paper Checks Eliminated. $73M SS Recipients Moved to Electronic Rails.
Trump signs Executive Order Approving a Proposed Divestiture framework, determining it constitutes the “Qualified Divestiture”.
Oracle Wins TikTok Algorithm Oversight on behavioral data layer for 170 million Americans.
Plasma officially launches.
August
Palantir lands a $10 billion U.S. Army softwre and data contract over the next decade.
July
SpaceX Invests $2B in xAI. Financial Integration Begins.
Infrastructure EO “Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure.
Trump signs GENIUS Act into Law
GENIUS Act Passed Senate
JThe One Big Beautiful Bill Act Was Signed Into Law
June
Regulatory Disestablishment Supreme Court Grants DOGE access to confidential Social Security Records.
Doge, working with Palantir, builds a master database merging IRS tax records, Social Security records, Medicare and Medicaid data, veterans’ medical files, and immigration records into a single cross-agency AI-searchable system.
May
Augustus Bank Receives Conditional OCC Approval
Moody’s Downgraded the U.S. Credit Rating
REAL ID Full Enforcement
Frank Bisigana, ex-Fiserve CEO, confirmed as SSA Commissioner
Foundry Deployed in Federal Agencies
Reporting said Foundry was being used across at least four agencies, raising concerns about cross-agency merging of medical, financial, and identity data.
Trump expanded Palantir’s operations across multiple agencies, with over $113 million in federal funding since Trump took office.
Pentagon awards Palantir a $1.3 billion Project Maven contract through 2029 for AI military systems
April
Visa Launches Intelligent Commerce
Mastercard Launches Agent Pay
The dollar Index Fell Below 100 Points
Palantir wins a $20 million contract from ICE to build ImmigrationOS
Palantir Confirmed as Dodge Data Consolidation Tool. DOD, HHS, DHS.
PayPal announces a 3.7% annual yield on PYUSD.
March
Executive Order 14247. Federal Paper Checks Eliminated by Sep 30.
Regulatory dismantlement EO “Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos.
Palantir Master Database Enabled.
xAI Colossus 2 Groundbreaking
Trump's executive order on federal data sharing triggered fears of a centralized database on Americans.
x Merged into xAI
Trump Family USD1 Stablecoin Launches
February
Palantir Awarded $970.5 Million in Federal Contracts
DOGE Gains Treasury Access
DODGE Arrives at CFPB. Headquarters are Closed.
Trump’s President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Tech includes Ellison, Zuckerger, Andreesen, Brin, Huan, and Dell.
January
Trump announced the “Stargate” Project during an event at the White House.
Executive Order 14178. CBDC Banned Private Stablecoins Promoted.
Data Collection TikTok USDS Joint Venture Established
$500 billion Stargate AI project with Ellison.
DOGE Given “Full and Prompt Access to All Unclassified Agency Records”.
Trump Inauguration. Tech Billionaires Seated Ahead of Cabinet.
Regulatory Data Collection TikTok Goes Dark Briefly. Trump Saves It on Day One.
Meta ends DEI Programs
Zuckerberg Dismantles Fact-Checking.
X Money Announced Partnership with Visa
Google Launches Universal Commerce Protocol at NRF
2024
Nov 25. Anthropic launches MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Musk posts on X calling for the elimination of the CFPB.
Musk donates approximately $290-300 million to the Trump campaign and aligned political infrastructure.
Tech executive coalition forms around the transition.
Trump is elected.
Bezos blocks the Washington Post's Kamala Harris endorsement.
Trump meets with Blue Origin executives who hold a $3.4 billion federal lunar spacecraft contract.
CFPB Open Banking Rule finalized.
Larry Ellison at Oracle's Financial Analyst Meeting: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on."
OpenAI releases o1-preview. First model to "think before it answers" using chain-of-thought reasoning.
Colossus 1 is operational in Memphis with 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs.
The US-Saudi Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation expires after 50 years. Saudi Arabia declines to renew.
Ilya Sutskever (co-founder, Chief Scientist) and Jan Leike (Head of Alignment, Superalignment co-lead) both resigned from OpenAI.
DOD increased Palantir’s Cherry Blossom contract by $795 million to enhance the AI capabilities of Maven Smart System.
Leopold Aschenbrenner was fired from OpenAI.
Daniel Kokotajlo resigns from the OpenAI governance team.
William Saunders resigns from OpenAI’s Superalignment safety team.
Palantir Joins S&P 500
2023
GPT-4 Launches
GPT-40 Launches
World ID Launches
xAI founded by Elon Musk, Grok Launched
Contactless Payments are 50% of all in-person transactions
First yuan-denominated Saudi oil transaction.
Claude Launches.
Palantir Launches AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform)
Palantir Funds Augustus Bank in $20 million Series A
2022
Twitter’s Security Failures
ChatGPT Launches and Reaches 1 Million Users within 5 Days
Elon Musk Acquired Twitter for $44 Billion
Thiel Funds $15 million to JD Vance’s Senate Campaign
Russia was blocked from SWIFT
Sam Altman achieves World ID Iris Scanning at Scale
2021
Frances Hugen exposes the depth of Meta’s knowledge of harm caused by social media apps.
Anthropic Founded
CLEAR goes public.
Palantir Rolls Out Apollo
2020
Sophie Zhang posted a 7,800-word memo on Facebook Election Manipulation
Palantir goes Public under the NYSE ticker PLTR
Mobile Payment Usage Spikes
2019
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism was released.
India’s Aadhaar System enrolls 1.2 billion people in the national ID system.
Facebook announces Libra, the first major tech company stablecoin.
2018
4,000 Google workers signed a petition over Project Maven
GDPR takes Effect
USDC launches
CLOUD Act
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower
2017
Apple Face ID Launches
2016
Trump was elected, defeating Hillary Clinton
Trump endorsement and transition team, including Peter Thiel
2015
USA Freedom Act
OpenAI Founded
Palantir Launches Foundry
2014
Apple Pay Launch
NFC on iPhone
Palantir begins ICE contract
Palantir’s Annual Revenue Reaches $1 billion.
Tether (USDT) Launches
Ethereum Invented
2013
Snowden reveals the surveillance architecture
Palantir Buys Voicegem
2012
2011
Larry Ellison Calls for a National Biometric ID Database
2010
Dodd-Frank Act creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFP)
Palantir Launches Metropolis
2009
Bitcoin Invented
Palantir Signs JPMorgan Chase
2008
FISA Amendments Act
The debt crossed $10 trillion
Palantir Launched Gotham
2005
Founders Fund Launched
REAL ID Act signed
Palantir secures the CIA as a customer
2004
Thiel invests $500,000 in Facebook for a 10.2% stake and a board seat.
PATRIOT ACT Reauthorized
Palantir Receives Early Backing from the CIA
2003
AT&T’s secret room to monitor citizens’ calls.
Palantir was founded, and CIA Seed funding was secured.
2002
eBay purchases PayPal for $1.5 billion.
2001
PATRIOT ACT Signed into Law just 45 days after the attacks.
9/11 Terrorist Attack
1999
X.com was founded by Elon Musk
1998
Thiel co-founds PayPal