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“So OpenAI just dropped hundreds of millions of dollars by a tech podcast. And Sam Altman now officially owns TPBN. Congratulations, Sam, you're now in media business. You acquired TPBN, the very hot tech online show and media company.”

“I think those guys do the best and most interesting job of covering what's happening with AI in a way that people understand, you know, they are genius marketers, and I would love to have better marketing.”

“But the clips have an average viewership of 200,000 views. And these are clips of them talking to Mark Zuckerberg, them talking to Mark Cuban, they talk to Travis Kalanick from Uber. So these are very notable people in tech that go out, and the clips end up generating the traction of the audience.”

“This version of, I'm a company that needs better marketing and storytelling, let me just grab a creator and pull them in house. That is, I think, going to be a growing trend. It's happened before HubSpot bought the newsletter company The Hustle. HubSpot also bought the podcast Starter Story.”

“And sometimes on their clothing, they treated it like a Formula 1 team, where even employees who occasionally would show up on screen are outfitted with the hat, with the ramp logo, and with all the logos of the team, similar to sports.”

“Every generation has these existential threats, climate change, COVID. There's always and and now it's AI. Then there was this invention called the Haber Bosch process where they figured out how to take nitrogen from the atmosphere, compress it, and make fertilizer. Boom. Suddenly, population skyrocketed.”

“We've already seen in just the last couple of weeks this insane shift in AI where people don't have to run models in the cloud anymore. They can run models on their desktop at home. So there's no longer, like, a dependency on Google or dependency on, you know, pick your favorite hosted model provider. I can download an open source model, and there's plenty of great models. I can run it on a Mac computer in my house.”

“In the West, we have so much more to lose than there is to gain. In China, GDP per capita skyrocketed from 3,000 to 30,000 in just a couple of years. I mean, imagine seeing the average person's income in a country go up by 10x, and everyone's moving from farms to villages to cities. And the cities are like the future. Like, it's been an extraordinary trajectory.”

“All technology shifts go through a phase of diffusion. Meaning, they have to start somewhere. It's not like we turn on a switch, and suddenly everyone can build an Etsy store or a Shopify store. But, like, eventually, every technology commoditizes. That's what's so amazing about technology is it, like, it's always diffusing. Like, this new innovation finds its way out.”

“And now, CAR T therapy is making its way into more and more cancer treatments. And it is like almost a hundred percent, like, success rate in blood cancers when it works. And so it's becoming this thing that goes from millions of dollars to 1,000,000 to 500 and pretty soon to 50k, 20k, and eventually 5k. And that ends that disease.”

“The post was deleted after many, including Trump supporters, criticized the imagery. Trump also said he won't apologize to to pope Leo after lashing out at the pontiff for his comments criticizing the war in Iran. Pope Leo called the president's threats last week to destroy Iranian civilization unacceptable.”

“The US Navy now restricting the movement of ships in and out of the Strait Of Hormuz, part of a blockade of Iranian ports announced by president Trump Sunday after peace talks with Iran produced no agreement. Iran has remained defiant, saying it will not surrender to threats from The US.”

“Democratic California congressman Eric Swalwell and Texas Republican Tony Gonzalez are stepping down from their house seats, both bowing to pressure to leave congress or face expulsion following sexual misconduct allegations.”

“The defendant is alleged to having traveled across state lines with the intent to both target an individual and a major technology company. This was not spontaneous. This was planned, targeted, and extremely serious.”

“The NAR is revising its housing forecast down for the year. That's because the war with Iran has raised the cost of borrowing, and that sent mortgage rates up. The association went from rejecting a double digit increase in existing home sales to just 4%.”

“The central bank needs more evidence that inflation is heading toward two percent.”

“Hospitals are diverting patients as digital systems remain offline following the breach.”

“This legislation represents a generational investment in our nation's crumbling transit networks.”

“Emergency crews are on high alert as record rainfall is expected tonight.”

“The switch to solid-state chemistry could fundamentally change the economics of transportation.”

“Every generation has these existential threats, climate change, COVID. There's always and and now it's AI. Then there was this invention called the Haber Bosch process where they figured out how to take nitrogen from the atmosphere, compress it, and make fertilizer. Boom. Suddenly, population skyrocketed.”

“We've already seen in just the last couple of weeks this insane shift in AI where people don't have to run models in the cloud anymore. They can run models on their desktop at home. So there's no longer, like, a dependency on Google or dependency on, you know, pick your favorite hosted model provider. I can download an open source model, and there's plenty of great models. I can run it on a Mac computer in my house.”

“In the West, we have so much more to lose than there is to gain. In China, GDP per capita skyrocketed from 3,000 to 30,000 in just a couple of years. I mean, imagine seeing the average person's income in a country go up by 10x, and everyone's moving from farms to villages to cities. And the cities are like the future. Like, it's been an extraordinary trajectory.”

“All technology shifts go through a phase of diffusion. Meaning, they have to start somewhere. It's not like we turn on a switch, and suddenly everyone can build an Etsy store or a Shopify store. But, like, eventually, every technology commoditizes. That's what's so amazing about technology is it, like, it's always diffusing. Like, this new innovation finds its way out.”

“And now, CAR T therapy is making its way into more and more cancer treatments. And it is like almost a hundred percent, like, success rate in blood cancers when it works. And so it's becoming this thing that goes from millions of dollars to 1,000,000 to 500 and pretty soon to 50k, 20k, and eventually 5k. And that ends that disease.”

“Vance is leading a team that includes president Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner. The high stakes role represents what may be Vance's most significant moment of his political career. It will certainly be a defining factor as he looks further ahead to a possible run at the White House himself.”

“In a statement, Russian president Vladimir Putin said his forces would abide by the ceasefire from 4PM Saturday through end of Easter Sunday. Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, had previously called for an Easter truce and agreed to Putin's offer, saying it was a chance for Russia to choose real progress towards peace.”

“The president has no independent power in this area of his own. He only has such authority as congress has given him, and here, they have not given him the kind of vast sweeping authority, he's claiming.”

“The FAA says anti drone lasers can now be used along The US southern border. Earlier this year, the agency shut down airspace in parts of Texas after the Pentagon deployed the systems.”

“Now the charity, which helps HIV positive young people in Lesotho and Botswana, has filed suit in Britain's high court, accusing Harry and a fellow trustee of defamation, a claim both men have rejected. It's just the latest legal headache for the Duke of Sussex who's awaiting a high court decision on the phone hacking case.”

“The language we had been talking, we've been using over the last couple of years with Cloudflare, and with a number of enterprise software type companies, the elongated sales cycle, sort of the trepidation of their customers to commit to spending, those days seemed to be well past us. It was another very solid report. They grew revenue 34% for the quarter, well exceeding their own guidance, guiding for another tremendous year, 28% revenue growth.”

“Increasingly, when I look at Airbnb, I see Marriott. I see a mature lodging business, asset light, that can outperform but is not going to be a high-growth stock. I've kind of given up on experiences as kind of a new rocket ship. I think now we're just kind of waking up to this is more of a lodging company than it is a tech company, maybe?”

“I think one of the question marks I have with Shopify, it's not really specific to their business, but we just hear more and more talk about this agentic commerce, right? And exactly what that means. And so I think we're going to see how that opportunity and agentic commerce shapes up over the coming quarters and years. They certainly discussed their AI investments on the call. They're very excited with the opportunities, the efficiencies, helping their merchants run better businesses.”

“They're only guiding for minimal revenue growth in 2026, under 5%, no margin expansion. This, they say, is temporary. They're doing model changeovers, but look, the Ferrari model is you got a huge waiting list. Just sell the cars, just jack up prices. I don't get why it's working. I think I still like this company, but it's still trading at more than 30 times expected earnings.”

“I saw operating margin for the quarter 15.5%. That's versus 11.2% a year ago. And so I think we had some questions really early on in the Spotify story as to exactly how quickly they could get to profitability and how profitable the company could be given the nature of the relationships with publishers and just the music business in general. You know, Travis, I just realized they passed a $2 price increase on the family plan... I'm happily, happily paying.”

“Yeah, I just want to say there's about 10% AI in the film, but there's 90% blender. And that's actually handmade CGI. So everything you see is all handmade. And even the de-aging of Bob Lazar, we scanned Bob. We went over to his house, scanned his face, took a process of de-aging him through that, then creating a digital model of Bob in different ages, and then placing him in the environment.”

“So, late 80s, you've essentially told the exact same story all these years. And then, within the last, you know, nine, ten years, we've started to get all these reports. There was the New York Times story. There was the GoFast video and the FLIR video and all these videos that show a craft that's moving the way you described this sport model moving.”

“It really made a big difference when he showed me some things and, you know, walking down the corridor here and turn, oh, stop. Wait, there's another door there. I mean, it was like I was going back into the facility and really brought. I mean, actually seeing it again really brought some things back that I had completely forgotten about.”

“I guess these guys were lifers though. I mean, they spent most of their time there. They spent at least two weeks at a time and one week off. So they stayed at the base. I mean, these guys were hardcore. I had just come in on the project, you know? So, I don't know. I don't know what happened to them. I'd love to know. I suspect that Dennis Mariani, my supervisor, died.”

“It's amazing because you've told the same one for all these years. It's also not normal. Like, normally, when people lie, they get bored with the same lie and then they come up with another lie. And there's some other stories. Eventually, you catch them. There's some cockamamie new thing that they come up with. And it's the type of people that are that deceptive.”

“We are moving toward a period where the speed of war will exceed the speed of human thought, necessitating a complete rethink of our command and control structures.”

“We are moving toward a period where the speed of war will exceed the speed of human thought, necessitating a complete rethink of our command and control structures.”

“The goal is really to build tools that allow for 'pressing pause' on biological time.”

“The goal is really to build tools that allow for 'pressing pause' on biological time.”

“The pilot was quickly recovered, but his weapons officer or colonel spent again two days evading Iranian militia and Revolutionary Guard forces. He was eventually plucked from a crevasse in a mountain some 7,000 feet high. I'm told by a US official, he's in stable condition, though no detail on his wounds.”

“Meanwhile, in a profanity-filled post on social media, President Trump threatened Iran again today over opening the Strait of Hormuz. Israeli attacks have killed at least 39 people across Lebanon today. And Piers-Lauren Freire reports, one of the biggest attacks targeted Beirut's southern suburbs, where Iran-backed Hezbollah has offices.”

“Residents posted this video to social media showing people covered in gray dust, ferrying the wounded out of a collapsed building on slings made of blankets. Israel often issues evacuation orders, but this attack in Beirut's coastal area of Jenach came without warning. Hitting a dense residential area near a public hospital, health officials say a four-year-old girl was among those killed.”

“Russia attacks Ukrainian cities with hundreds of Shaheds a day, and Ukraine's military has learned how to intercept them. Zelensky is offering to trade this anti-drone expertise for systems that shoot down Russian ballistic missiles. Joanna Kekesis, NPR News, CAVE.”

“The Screenwriters Union and Hollywood Studios have reached a tentative four-year agreement after weeks of negotiation. Details of the agreement between the Writers Guild of America West and the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV Producers hasn't been released. But the Union was asking for better health care plans and protections against artificial intelligence.”

“Yeah, I just want to say there's about 10% AI in the film, but there's 90% blender. And that's actually handmade CGI. So everything you see is all handmade. And even the de-aging of Bob Lazar, we scanned Bob. We went over to his house, scanned his face, took a process of de-aging him through that, then creating a digital model of Bob in different ages, and then placing him in the environment.”

“So, late 80s, you've essentially told the exact same story all these years. And then, within the last, you know, nine, ten years, we've started to get all these reports. There was the New York Times story. There was the GoFast video and the FLIR video and all these videos that show a craft that's moving the way you described this sport model moving.”

“It really made a big difference when he showed me some things and, you know, walking down the corridor here and turn, oh, stop. Wait, there's another door there. I mean, it was like I was going back into the facility and really brought. I mean, actually seeing it again really brought some things back that I had completely forgotten about.”

“I guess these guys were lifers though. I mean, they spent most of their time there. They spent at least two weeks at a time and one week off. So they stayed at the base. I mean, these guys were hardcore. I had just come in on the project, you know? So, I don't know. I don't know what happened to them. I'd love to know. I suspect that Dennis Mariani, my supervisor, died.”

“It's amazing because you've told the same one for all these years. It's also not normal. Like, normally, when people lie, they get bored with the same lie and then they come up with another lie. And there's some other stories. Eventually, you catch them. There's some cockamamie new thing that they come up with. And it's the type of people that are that deceptive.”

“Yeah, I just want to say there's about 10% AI in the film, but there's 90% blender. And that's actually handmade CGI. So everything you see is all handmade. And even the de-aging of Bob Lazar, we scanned Bob. We went over to his house, scanned his face, took a process of de-aging him through that, then creating a digital model of Bob in different ages, and then placing him in the environment.”

“So, late 80s, you've essentially told the exact same story all these years. And then, within the last, you know, nine, ten years, we've started to get all these reports. There was the New York Times story. There was the GoFast video and the FLIR video and all these videos that show a craft that's moving the way you described this sport model moving.”

“It really made a big difference when he showed me some things and, you know, walking down the corridor here and turn, oh, stop. Wait, there's another door there. I mean, it was like I was going back into the facility and really brought. I mean, actually seeing it again really brought some things back that I had completely forgotten about.”

“I guess these guys were lifers though. I mean, they spent most of their time there. They spent at least two weeks at a time and one week off. So they stayed at the base. I mean, these guys were hardcore. I had just come in on the project, you know? So, I don't know. I don't know what happened to them. I'd love to know. I suspect that Dennis Mariani, my supervisor, died.”

“It's amazing because you've told the same one for all these years. It's also not normal. Like, normally, when people lie, they get bored with the same lie and then they come up with another lie. And there's some other stories. Eventually, you catch them. There's some cockamamie new thing that they come up with. And it's the type of people that are that deceptive.”