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copyright stuff, but now Merriam-Webster is suing them because apparently they surface definitions that look like they came from Merriam-Webster's IP. So they're going to have to deal with that. And apparently the lawyers used the word "plagiarize" to make their point. So they showed the definition on Merriam-Webster of the word "plagiarize" and then they showed how it's defined in Perplexity. Sam…

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body also who knew a lot today said that you have to be really, really knowledgeable even to catch AI's mistakes and to know how to give it a prompt. So we don't seem really close to getting rid of programmers. It looks like there'll be pockets where AI makes a really big difference, but in general, you're going to need somebody who really knows what they're doing or else it's useless.

Well, Elon Musk seems to be making all the right moves with Tesla lately now that he's out of politics. So one of my predictions that I kept in my head, I feel like I did not say this out loud, but maybe you can remind me if I ever said this out loud. People have really short memories. And I assumed that if Elon Musk ever left politics and just said, "All right, I'm going to work on my companies again," the people would get over it and all of their hatred for Elon would go away. And I thought in a matter of months. Well, Tesla shares have reached all the way back to I think above where they were before they took a dump when Elon got into politics. We've got the robotaxi. The robotaxi is in operation and expanding. We've got full self-driving. We've got apparently the numbers are pretty good.

I was looking at a post by Nick. He's got his affordable models coming. He's got his pay packages in place. But h

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ere's the best part. This is pure Elon Musk. He just bought, allegedly, although Grok says it's not true, but I think Grok might be a little behind. So I'll take a fact check on this if this turns out to be fake news. But I did see that Elon allegedly bought a billion dollars of Tesla shares on Friday. Now that would be sort of an unusual thing to do. You know, it's not sort of the time when peopl…

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