g we heard is that China was going to own the algorithm and just sort of feed it to the American company. There's no way that worked. I mean, that was sort of defeating the whole point.

But according to Caroline Levitt, the algorithm will now be controlled by Americans, the American owners. Do you believe this is going to get signed? There's something, there's a dog not barking in this story. Isn't there something really, really missing? Well, I'll tell you. China reportedly and somewhat obviously was using the TikTok thing as leverage for other things that it wants out of the United States. So the one thing you could know for sure is that there's no way in heck that China would ever allow the sale of their big, incredibly successful asset to the US. There's no way they do that unless they got something in return that was pretty big.

Have you heard any news about anything they're getting in return? Do you believe that China went from, well there's no way you're going to take the jewel of our online assets unless you give us something pretty good. It might be tariffs. It might be something else, but you better give us something pretty good. And then we did hear that the US was holding back some defense allocations for Taiwan and that it might be connected, but that was supposed to be temporary, you know, just while we're talking to them. Is it temporary? Don't you feel that there's no way this deal could have been done unless we promised them something right? There's no way. I don't think so.

Now, do you think that maybe there's a secret deal, maybe a secret deal where they're going to maybe not help Russia as much? I don't think so. I don't think TikTok would be worth that. So I'm concerned that we don't know exactly what the deal was for that, but maybe we'll never find out.

You might remember that not too long ago, Elon Musk made the following observation about Microsoft's business. He said in principle given that software companies like Microsoft do not themselves manufacture any physical hardware it should be possible to simulate them entirely with AI. He wants to simulate entirely the entire Microsoft product line. I do believe that we may approach the place. We're not there yet, but I could easily imagine we'd reach a place where replacing all of Microsoft is anybody with AI sitting in a room and saying, can you pretend to be every product that Microsoft makes? And then if I need to put som