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brain even for something as deep as an addiction. Now I'm surprised that it works that well, but so many people have said it. It's just shocking. Toyota says it's no longer going to focus on electric vehicles and instead will develop new combustion engines. Some people say that might have something to do with hydrogen. I don't know. But I can tell you this: if you've tried to buy a Toyota truck r…

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version of it but not this. He said one of his predictions lately: Elon Musk telling Tesla investors that the value of Tesla alone could become half of the combined value of the S&P 500. Let me say that again. Elon Musk has said in public to Tesla investors that the value of Tesla, just that one company, could become as valuable as half of all the companies in the S&P 500. It could be half of the entire index. And that's because of robots. That's entirely a robot play. And he's saying if he doesn't get his pay package, he'll take his robot somewhere else. So is that possible? I actually think that's completely possible. I think you're talking about a multi-trillion dollar industry, and whoever is the biggest in it, and it's very likely it could be Tesla, is going to have a trillion, multi-trillion dollar business. So I'm not sure he's wrong. I mean, that's a really gutsy prediction, but I think he's right. I think he's right.

I've been spending more and more time with AI, using ChatGPT in particular 4o, and I can report that it's completely addictive. If you haven't experienced it yet, and most of you haven't, it's so addictive. You know, I remember the first time I saw the internet. It was in the little lab in Pacific Bell before the public had even heard of the internet. Literally before the public had

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heard the word "internet." I was playing with it in the lab, and then you could feel the attraction to it and everybody else could too. You knew it was going to be big before it was anything. You could just tell everybody had the same excitement about it from the first exposure. AI does that too, right? If you tried a few AI things when it was new and it didn't do much for you because it didn't do…

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