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e doesn't tell you what it was trained on. The data that it was trained on is not something we have access to. So what if they just trained it on a bunch of pro-China propaganda, you know, plus all the generic stuff in the world, so that it was essentially a brainwashing tool? How do we know? Well, the only way we'd know is by asking it questions that would get to that very point. And it turns out…

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w I guess you could say, well, it could be individuals. Really? Maybe. But why would the individuals want to take out this great free new product? I don't know. Sounds like us.

So as you know, there's an accusation that the whistleblower for OpenAI was murdered. Now if it's true that controlling AI in the world is an existential, most important thing for our country, and it might be, might be the most important thing, would the CIA kill an American citizen to guarantee American dominance? Probably yes. That doesn't mean they did, but wouldn't that be sort of on point? Killing one person to save the country. Again, not saying that they did, but I kind of feel like that's their job. I hate to say it. If they're trying to keep the country safe and the whistleblower would have taken down our most important AI asset, it feels like we would have killed them. We meaning somebody associated with our government. And the same with DeepSeek.

So what I expect and what I predicted is that our government will try to degrade access to or even the product itself. So I think we will probably see a massive campaign to say it's too dangerous like TikTok or something. And somehow it will be banned eventually, unless we just outcompete it, which is also possible. We might just outcompete it. So Grok 3 is launching this week, which is 10 times the computing power. And pretty soon voice mode is coming so you can talk to Grok. And Grok's got the, I think the most impressive data center, which should give it either now or soon the most impressive AI. So I feel like even if AI is free like you can get a free DeepSeek, I'm still going to take the one that's better if it's, you know, say $20 a month. I think I'm always going to want the one that's better. So we'll see. I think America is going to be way more competitive than we thought for 24 hours when that free one dropped.

Deportations up to 12,200 on Sunday. And so I guess Trump wanted that number to get up. It was only in the lower hun

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dreds for a few days. But only 600 people crossed illegally on Sunday. That's like a ridiculously low number. Now turns out that closing the border wasn't that hard, just like Trump said. Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump Justice Department fired more than a dozen lawyers that were working with Jack Smith's prosecutions of the president. Now I'm completely in favor of that. I think…

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