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established by Perplexity because they're literally paying for it. So that's what the market value is. The market value is what somebody's willing to pay. So that would suggest that the other AI companies might be forced. I'm no lawyer so don't believe anything I say about legal stuff but it feels like it would put pressure on the other ones. So a little legal pressure if not moral pressure. Mean…

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me kind of antitrust collusion over ChatGPT because you know if you have an Apple phone it's sort of mated with OpenAI and I guess X believes that maybe they're getting less visibility because of that. So we'll see where that goes. I feel like all these big companies are just suing each other all the time. Have you noticed that all the news is about lawsuits now? Like that's all it is. Or court cases. It's just somebody is suing somebody and somebody got arrested and there's a grand jury. It's like everything about the government and everything about AI and big business. It's all sort of somebody's suing somebody for something. We're in that permanent lawsuit kind of a world.

Apparently the Coast Guard allegedly just pulled off the most successful, meaning biggest, drug bust operation in history. They got 1.3 million kilograms of cocaine. And they said they grabbed drugs that had a total value of $45 billion. Now that can't be true, ri

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ght? $45 billion doesn't sound like it would be maybe the biggest in history, but could they really have one shipment that had $45 billion of value? Would the cartels put $45 billion of product on one boat? I mean, I don't want to tout or talk up the cartels, but aren't they pretty good at this smuggling stuff? Would you put $45 billion product value on one ship? Would you? That would be a weird c…

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