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this works. Because I'm getting a little mad about it. I mean, maybe the public doesn't follow these things closely enough to know that this can't work. They're basically presenting us a doom scenario in which we all die for sure. Can you give me any hope? Because this budget just tells me we're going to let you all die. That's the budget. The budget is you're all dead. Because the whole reason t…

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r AI copyright case, according to Wired. So I guess they found that there was some specific AI company, what is it, not one of the big ones, doesn't matter, a smaller AI company you never heard of. Apparently there's evidence that they may have trained their model using some proprietary stuff from Thomson Reuters. And it looks like the judge ruled in Thomson Reuters' favor, said the AI company's copyright was indeed infringed. Oh, it's by Ross Intelligence. Ross Intelligence, that's the name of the AI company. So it's specifically for legal stuff, I guess. That's what the AI was.

Now remember, I warned you that if you're worried about AI suddenly taking over everything, AI is going to have a tough path through all the lawsuits, because everybody who's not getting rich from AI is going to be trying to sue it to stop it. Yeah, and although it looks like this case was kind of clean, that they could more easily prove that somebody trained on their materials without permission, I feel like all the general AIs are just going to get sued and sued and sued until it's tough to do business. So I think that's what's going to slow them down: lawsuits.

Well, meanwhile, Ukraine is going the obvious way. How many of you already knew how to end the war in Ukraine for years, right? If I had asked you, h

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ey stranger, what would you do to end the war in Ukraine? Almost everybody would say, well, you know, Zelensky is going to need to get flexible about losing some land. Russia is probably going to keep what they've already gotten. And probably the only way the war ends is if Ukraine makes some kind of commitment not to join NATO. Right? Yeah, you and I could have done that. And it looks like that's…

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