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OpenAI claims Astra is a leap to AGI. ARC results — 99.9% vs 62.7% — tell a different story. Neeta breaks down Sam Altman's timing play: beating Anthropic to IPO, escaping Microsoft's $100B profit lock, and what Astra's efficiency and black-box risk mean for business.

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00:00 OpenAI Astra Launch Is Not AGI 

00:59 Sam Altman G20 Pitch and OpenAI IPO Pressure 

01:34 OpenAI Astra Tax Demo Problem 

02:04 OpenAI Astra ARC Test: 99.9% vs 62.7% 

03:03 Astra Token Efficiency vs Claude Fable 5.1 

03:36 OpenAI Critical Risk Threshold and Cybersecurity 

03:57 Astra Black Box Recurrent Looping La...

Flock says its 120,000 cameras just read license plates to keep you safe. New investigations reveal a secret AI tracking more than license plates, a 71% error rate vs single-digit claims, and illicit use of the platform by law enforcement. Citizens are furious and cities are racing to pull the plug.

We break down Flock vs law enforcement vs citizens and lawmakers — who profits, who gets tracked, and why the business of surveillance is about to get even worse for normal people.

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00:00 Flock Safety Under Fire

01:15 How ALPR Cameras Work

Meta just paid 51 attorneys general (47 states + 3 territories/D.C.) up to $18 billion over 10 years to settle youth mental health claims — less than 30 days of revenue, with no admission of liability. We compare and contrast why 51 politicians gave Meta a super sweet deal that lets it off the hook, and why a single New Mexico jury was much smarter — using a product-design theory to bypass Section 230, cage Meta's product decisions, and force real constraints.

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00:00 Meta's $18B Deal: 51 AGs vs New Mexico Jury Win

01:30 $18B Penalty Is 27 Days of Revenue — No Liability

02:4...

Canada puts electricity and critical minerals on the table after US-Canada trade talks collapsed — Ontario Premier Doug Ford pushing to cut US power to 8 red states as Washington threatens 50% tariffs on $20B in Canadian goods.

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00:00 Canada-US Talks Collapse: 50% Tariffs Hit

01:18 Canada's Dollar-for-Dollar Retaliation

01:53 Canada-US Trade Data Reality Check

02:58 Why the Trade Deficit Exists

04:19 Auto Supply Chain Standoff

05:00 Carney's Demands & Deal Breakers

07:39 Doug Ford's Red State Power Cut Plan

08:53 What Happens Next for Trade War

09:38 Closing

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OpenAI lost its CRO and COO, bringing the exodus to 22 executives since 2024 — weeks before Anthropic's reported $2 trillion IPO target.

Brockman is consolidating internal control while Altman runs the external play in D.C. We break down who's actually driving OpenAI's restructuring and what it means for the Anthropic race.

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00:00 22 OpenAI Executives Gone 

01:00 Denise Dresser (CRO) Pushed Out 

02:45 Anthropic Enterprise vs. OpenAI Growth 

03:45 Sam Altman's D.C. Play 

04:30 OpenAI's Equity Offer 

05:30 Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO 

06:30 The OpenAI-Anthropic Rivalry Deepens

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RFK Jr. promised a federal definition of ultra-processed food by April 2026. The FDA's big announcement didn't include it — and the food industry has the paperwork to prove why. Inside the $2.3 trillion fight over what's actually on your grocery labels.

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00:00 The $2T Food Fight

00:55 GRAS Loophole Explained

01:45 What FDA Actually Changed

02:30 What FDA Didn't Change

03:05 RFK's Broken Promise

04:00 Industry Size and Stakes

04:45 Big Food's Lobbying War

06:00 235 Food Lawsuits Worldwide

06:45 Lancet Findings on UPFs

07:30 The Government Contradiction

Everyone's reporting Meta's $942M New Mexico ruling as a fine. It's actually two instruments, and the $567M abatement fund buys the state five years of direct oversight inside Meta's product decisions. That's the story: how New Mexico used a product-design legal theory to bypass Section 230, and why 29 states are now watching this as a replicable template with a $1.4T exposure estimate on the table.

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00:00 $942M Fine Explained

00:58 Section 230 Bypassed

01:45 $567M Abatement Fund

02:28 Mandatory Product Changes

03:42 Meta Q2 Cash Flow Drop

04:28 AI CapEx vs...

SpaceX just hit a record low the same week 911 million insider shares unlock, and Elon Musk responded by betting the entire company on a single chip supplier. Across town, Google made the opposite bet: a $200 billion financing scheme built to keep Anthropic off exactly that supplier. One of these companies is paying a borrowing-rate penalty for its bet. This episode breaks down who, why, and what it means for the AI chip war's next casualty.

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00:00 SpaceX Stock Hits Lows

00:56 Unlock and Short Pressure

02:02 Losses and AI Costs

02:29 Musk...

Palantir posted 93% revenue growth on the same earnings call where CEO Alex Karp called frontier AI labs "colonizers" of enterprise data. We break down the sovereign AI pitch, the EU AI Act's new enforcement risk to Europe's data sovereignty, and why Karp's own orchestration play may be building the same cage he's attacking.

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00:00 Karp Calls Labs Colonizers

01:45 Palantir Revenue Breakdown

02:45 Sovereign AI Explained

04:00 Nadella's Reverse Information Paradox

05:30 Orchestration Layer Stakes

06:00 Europe's Palantir Problem

07:00 Surveillance Blowback Risk

08:30 AI Bias in...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino secretly tried to sell 20% of the World Cup to private equity at a $20B valuation without telling his own member associations. Within 48 hours, 55 European football nations voted unanimously to boycott. He caved.

We break down the deal structure, JPMorgan's role, the internal resignations, and whether Infantino's presidency survives.

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00:00 Infantino's Secret Selloff Plan

01:00 Europe's Unanimous Boycott

02:30 "The World Cup Is Not for Sale"

03:30 $20B Valuation, $4.2B Stake

04:00 JP Morgan's Football Comeback

04:45 Mutiny Inside FIFA

05:45 Could...

China is weaponizing open-weight AI with Kimi K3 — a 2.8 trillion parameter model from Moonshot AI — using the same pricing-war playbook that reshaped EVs. The real story isn't the benchmarks. It's the fight over who controls AI pricing power: Nvidia positioning to profit from every outcome, closed-model revenue math that collapses if cheap Chinese models keep coming. And Sam Altman is quietly using this exact geopolitical threat to force Washington into saving OpenAI's IPO while the rest of Big Tech scrambles to protect revenue.

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00:00 What Kimi K3 Just Triggered

01:45 Open Weight vs. Open...

Oil just crossed $100 a barrel, the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed, Red Sea shipping is threatened, and the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest point since 1983. That energy shock is colliding with an even bigger problem: Nikkei Asia estimates that five US tech giants have accumulated $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet obligations tied largely to the AI infrastructure buildout. If AI utilization does not grow fast enough, who absorbs the cost in a world with more inflation and higher energy costs?

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00:00 Oil Hits $100

00:55 Hormuz and Red Sea Pressure

01:45...

A judge just froze the $110B Paramount–Warner Bros. merger after California and filed an antitrust lawsuit. But the real threat to this historic media deal isn't the courtroom: it’s $79B in toxic debt.

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00:00 Judge Freezes $110B Merger

00:53 12-State Antitrust Lawsuit

02:24 Broken Theatrical Promises

03:45 WGA Sues to Block Deal

04:27 Paramount's $650M Ticking Fee

05:43 $79B Debt Explained

07:14 Oracle Funds the Deal

08:50 AI CapEx Drains Oracle

09:28 Foreign Ownership Wildcard

09:59 What California Actually Wants

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SpaceX dropped below its IPO price for the first time today. But the real warning is coming from the bond market.

This episode examines the gap between Wall Street’s bullish SpaceX targets and debt pricing that reflects junk-bond risk. We break down the company’s stock volatility, financial outlook, negative cash-flow concerns, Starlink’s competitive position, Amazon’s challenge, China’s space ambitions, and the market mechanics that helped support SpaceX’s valuation.

The central question: is SpaceX being valued on future fundamentals—or on hype that the bond market is already questioning?<...

The US restarted its naval blockade of Iranian ports July 14 and announced a 20% toll on all Strait of Hormuz cargo. Oil blew past $80 the same day. CENTCOM and Iran have been trading strikes all week, and Dubai is quietly building an eastern port to bypass the strait entirely.

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00:00 US Restarts Iran Blockade

00:50 The 20% Hormuz Toll

01:21 CENTCOM vs. Iran Strikes

02:02 Oil Surges Past $80

02:32 Dubai's Eastern Bypass Port

03:25 UAE Breaks From OPEC

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Apple and OpenAI went from iPhone partners to federal court adversaries, and the lawsuit reads like a coordinated strategy ran through OpenAI's entire hardware organization. The chief hardware officer allegedly told job candidates to bring actual Apple parts to their interviews. With the OpenAI IPO already under pressure, this lands at a very bad time for Sam Altman.

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00:00 Apple Sues OpenAI

00:21 Partnership Turns Lawsuit

01:21 Engineer Chang Liu's Actions

02:14 Exploiting Apple's Network Bug

03:05 Coaching Other Defectors

03:45 The Wider Conspiracy

04:21 Chief Hardware Officer's...

Ukraine just got a license to manufacture PAC-3 Patriot missiles on its own soil, and Lockheed Martin found out the same time the rest of the world did. This is not just a Ukraine story. It is a stress test of how the US defense industry, NATO's supply chain, and Trump's foreign policy posture all crack under the pressure of a war that is moving faster than the factories supplying it.

This episode breaks down what the Patriot production license actually means, why the US munitions supply chain was already on life support, how Europe's industrial...

The Iran deal just collapsed — and the US Treasury revoking its oil waiver is only the surface of it. The deeper problem is that the memorandum never actually resolved anything: not the missile attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, not Israel's concerns, not the core issues driving the war. If a deal can't hold together this quickly, the question is whether any stable resolution is even possible.

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00:00 Iran Deal Collapses

00:16 Tanker Attacks Escalate

00:52 Hormuz Three Routes

01:35 Iran's Yuan Oil Workaround

02:44 China Cuts Oil Im...

Sam Altman reportedly offered the US government a 5% equity stake in OpenAI — AND in Anthropic, Meta, and other Big Tech AI companies — as part of a US sovereign wealth fund proposal. Without apparently asking those other companies first. We break down what that 5% is actually worth (the math hits $42B+ for OpenAI alone), what it reveals about Sam Altman's personal investment portfolio, and what this means for AI regulation and Big Tech competition.

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00:00 Altman's $42B Government Offer

01:30 Equity He Doesn't Own

02:45 Intel's 10% Lesson

04:00 Government Owning Private Companies

The US just declined to renew USMCA (aka new NAFTA), and that's bad news bears for thousands of US firms. Autos make up 18% of trade between the US, Canada, and Mexico, and the supply chain is deeply intertwined across all 3 countries. Tariffs already drove a 625% cost increase on autos and parts since Liberation Day 2025. With average MSRP above $51,000, how much higher prices can go before people stop buying?

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00:00 USMCA Not Renewed

00:52 Why It Matters

01:39 Autos Supply Chains

02:10 Tariffs And Fallout

03:31 Leaders And Talks

04:16...

Anthropic got US government approval to expand Mythos access just weeks after reporting it suffered the largest-ever distillation attack, orchestrated by China’s Alibaba. Meanwhile Sam Altman is desperate for a trillion-dollar valuation for OpenAI's IPO, but his own advisors are telling him it's not happening in 2026. Unless Anthropic gets blocked? The AI arms race between companies and countries is moving faster than anyone can keep up with. 

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00:00 Mythos Gets Unlocked

00:58 Fable 5 Still Restricted

01:32 Alibaba's Distillation Attack

02:55 Anthropic's Three Asks

04:55 Nvidia's China Problem

06:18 Ali...

Stocks are sliding in a global sell-off led by tech, AI, and chips, with the Nasdaq hit hardest. Fresh off its June 12 IPO, SpaceX has already swung wildly—down about $400B in market cap at one point—with focus now on its upcoming index inclusion and the first window for retail investors to sell. AI geopolitics intensifies as US officials probe whether ASML EUV lithography tech reached China, plus Five Eyes issues dire warning about imminent AI cyber attacks, highlighting stratospherically high US–China and EU–China tensions. What could go wrong?

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00:00 Tech Sell Off...

Pew Research has been mapping American political identity since 1987, and their 2026 typology finds nine distinct voter groups — not two. The loudest voices in US politics come from just 38% of the country, split between the far right and far left, while the majority sits somewhere messier and more complicated in the middle. 

Host Neeta Bidwai reflects ahead of America’s 250th anniversary and walks through the 9 political typologies, based on a survey of more than 10,000 Americans, including issues like same-sex marriage, open carry, climate change, regulation, and church-state separation. 

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00:00 Welcome and Contex...

Anthropic is in a full-blown standoff with the White House after the government banned foreign nationals from using Fable 5, the lab's most advanced model, with less than two hours notice. The ban followed a tip from Amazon's CEO, which is raising a lot of eyebrows given how intertwined these companies actually are. On top of that, OpenAI's audited financials just leaked, showing a $38 billion loss in 2025, and the AI price war is making a path to profitability look even harder.

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00:00 Fable 5 Export Ban

01:45 Andy Jassy's Role

03:15 Anthropic vs White...

Oil traders celebrated a peace deal and pushed prices below $80 a barrel, but that's not the whole story. Shipping companies won't move until the peace holds, minesweepers still have to clear the strait, and oil executives just told the White House prices aren't coming down anytime soon. The pump is still painful, and the timeline to relief is longer than anyone wants to admit.

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00:00 Energy Prices Outlook

00:21 Oil Markets React

00:52 Oil Shipments Delay Explained

01:32 Charts and EIA Forecasts

02:34 Hormuz Risks and Mines

03:05 Why...

The US Iran memorandum is worth $300B+, and nothing in it is what it appears to be. The Strait of Hormuz is being "reopened" while Iran charges tolls, mines are still in the water, and there's no progress on nuclear talks. Israel isn't a party to any of this, energy prices are sky high, and the Pentagon needs 3+ years and US automakers' help to restock missiles after the US blew through $113B on the war. Does any of this actually hold?

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00:00 Iran MOU Framework and Key Terms

01:30 Financial Terms: $25B and $300...

FIFA turned the 2026 World Cup into a corporate data machine and fans are paying for it in every sense. Insane ticket prices, invasive ad breaks, and secret surveillance you never agreed to. This episode breaks down three critical ways AI and greed are reshaping the world's biggest tournament. Where will it end?

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00:00 AI Meets World Cup

00:57 Host Countries And Challenges

02:17 Dynamic Ticket Pricing Chaos

03:51 Sticker Shock And Sellouts

05:25 US Performance And Price Comparisons

07:36 Ad Breaks And Hydration Stops

08:47 AI Generated Ads...

SpaceX had a huge IPO day, pricing at $135, opening at $150, and jumping more than 25% to a $2 trillion valuation, pushing Elon Musk to trillionaire status and netting banks about $500 million in fees. Except what if this rally is driven almost entirely by hype and financial engineering over fundamentals and long-term value?

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00:00 SpaceX IPO Pops

00:47 Trillionaire Musk Moment

01:49 Hype Versus Fundamentals

02:40 Self Dealing Concerns

03:29 Merger And Data Center News

04:33 Google and Anthropic Entanglements

05:19 Index Funds Rigged Rules

06:50 Lockups Rebalancing Risks

SpaceX prices its IPO Friday at $135 per share. OpenAI just filed confidentially to go public, and its numbers are weaker than Anthropic's by almost every measure. Anthropic leads enterprise AI with 40% market share versus OpenAI's 27%. And the Nasdaq 100 bent its rules to let these companies in fast, whether index fund holders want them or not. Here is what the IPO races mean for your money.

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00:00 OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO

01:18 OpenAI's Valuation vs. Anthropic's

01:52 OpenAI's Financial Challenges

02:55 Anthropic's B2B Market Dominance

03:31 OpenAI's Third Phase...

American Cancer Society data reveals a growing health crisis with cancer rates under 50, early onset cancer, and cancer in women becoming more prevalent. Could this alarming trend be curtailed by three new breakthroughs? We break down new science in our special series: One Good Thing.

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00:00 Cancer rates rising in people under 50

01:20 GLP-1 drugs and cancer progression

03:38 Tumor-eradicating injection trial results

05:00 The invisibility cloak smart drug explained

06:03 Why these breakthroughs matter

07:24 Wrap up and resources

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Morningstar just cut SpaceX's valuation nearly in half. SpaceX & Elon Musk are undaunted, forcing a fixed price for shares instead of acknowledging real investor demand, or the lack thereof. Because the real secret is that index investors are already strapped in for a very bumpy ride on a corporate conglomerate with no oversight and precious little revenue. We break down what's really happening with SpaceX, and what it might mean for public markets.

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00:00 SpaceX IPO overview and Morningstar's valuation cut

01:17 Target raise, share price, and retail allocation

03:33 Banker fees...

Anthropic just confidentially filed its S1, and the most expensive IPO race is officially on. Three companies chasing trillion-dollar valuations at once, a surprise $500M AI bill that nearly broke a CFO, and the Nasdaq rule change forcing index funds into unprofitable AI startups within 15 days of listing. We break down why it matters to you and to the economy.

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00:00 Anthropic files its S1

00:44 Valuation and fundraising targets

01:32 Is this the largest IPO ever

02:12 Can public markets absorb three mega IPOs

03:04 Anthropic vs OpenAI narrative...

Ferrari launched its first EV and car lovers + the internet are deeply unimpressed. This is bad news for Ferrari in the short term, but new data shows Ferrari was spot on to tackle the fast growing electric vehicle market. Global EV sales hit 20 million in 2025, on track for half a billion cars within a decade. Meanwhile the Strait of Hormuz blockade is draining global strategic reserves. Could it push buyers in the US, the world’s 2nd largest auto market, toward electric after all?

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00:00 Ferrari Luce launch and the internet's reaction

01:32 Th...

Anthropic just hit a $965B valuation and is now worth more than OpenAI. How did they get here so fast, and what does it mean for OpenAI's IPO?

In this episode, we break down Anthropic's $65B Series H led by Sequoia, Altimeter, and Greenoaks, the Opus 4.8 model launch, and why Andrej Karpathy leaving for Anthropic matters. We also dig into OpenAI's IPO dilemma, their $25B revenue run rate versus Anthropic's $47B, missed user targets, and Sam Altman's surprising reversal on AI-driven job loss.

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00:00 Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in valuation

01:05...

Pope Leo XIV just called for AI to be disarmed. Not banned but stripped of wanton military, economic, and cognitive power before it's too late. The Vatican released the Magnifica Humanitas just as Anthropic hits $10.9B in projected revenue this quarter and OpenAI stumbles toward its IPO before time runs out for an exit.

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00:00 Pope Leo XIV calls for AI disarmament

00:54 Core warnings: autonomous weapons and biased algorithms

01:35 Magnifica Humanitas explained

03:12 Five themes from the document

05:34 Anthropic at the Vatican and the IPO race

Gas hit $4.56 this Memorial Day weekend and consumer sentiment just dropped to an all-time low. The Strait of Hormuz conflict is draining global oil reserves at a record pace, and the latest truce talks don’t seem stable at all. So energy businesses from utilities to autos are rethinking everything as the largest utility merge in the world, NextEra-Dominion, could reshape electricity prices on the entire Eastern Seaboard and Ford gets serious about building batteries even though it threw away it’s electric vehicle business.

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00:00 Gas prices hit a four-year high this Memorial Day<...

A new landmark study traced $3.3 trillion in Chinese foreign investment across 161,000 companies in 159 countries and what it found about patent harvesting should concern every Western economy.

The research, published by the US National Bureau of Economic Research, reveals how Chinese state-owned enterprises and private investors have systematically targeted pre-patent, R&D-intensive firms in North America and Europe since 2012. More than $800 billion of that investment flowed through the Cayman Islands alone, obscuring ownership and bypassing standard foreign direct investment reporting. The strategy traces directly to the Made in China 2015 initiative, which directed Chinese firms to acquire and...

OpenAI just won a major legal battle against Elon Musk, but are they about to lose the IPO race anyway in the hottest year ever for public offerings? The Musk v. OpenAI trial ended in just two hours with a verdict for the defense, but the reputational damage from testimony may matter more than the legal outcome. Sam Altman now faces a House Oversight inquiry over $2 billion in stakes he holds in companies tied to OpenAI, while OpenAI misses targets and the CFO says it's not ready for public markets. Meanwhile, Anthropic just beat OpenAI in crucial metrics for...

AI CapEx is projected to hit $725B this year, up 77% from $410B, as the Iran war pressures the global economy, with AI/tech and oil and gas outperforming while other sectors struggle. Saudi Aramco warns gas and jet fuel stockpiles could reach critically low levels if the Strait of Hormuz can’t reopen, and the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index is at its highest since COVID-era peaks. All while Google surges, Meta falters, and Microsoft tests out usage based pricing under margin pressure. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s woes multiply under the weight of an astounding burn rate a...

The US-China summit is touted as a breakthrough, but 4 unresolved conflicts stand in the way: AI chip export controls and smuggling routes through Singapore and Thailand, China’s satellite support for Iran, the Taiwan reunification deadline of 2027, and the decades-long unfair China trade disputes and Section 301 investigations at the USTR. Between the Supermicro founder personally smuggling NVIDIA servers to China, NVIDIA Blackwell and Vera Rubin chip restrictions, the Shadow Fleet sanctions evasion network in Hong Kong, are there just too many issues to resolve peacefully?

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00:00 Why this summit won't produce a real deal