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All right, people. Let's talk about the news. And by the way, after this show, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces event on X. And you don't need to pay for that. You just need to show up and look for Owen Gregorian. Just do a search, you'll find him. I also reposted it. So if you go to my account, you'll find it. The link after the show. It'll be a few minutes after the show.

All right. In technology news, there's a Rice University professor. Wow, I didn't even know that Rice had a university. Do all the food groups have their own university or is it just Rice? Maybe just carbs. Is there like a potato university? I don't know. Well, there's a Rice University. I know it's not about the rice. I'm just joking. Just joking.

Anyway, the Rice University chemistry professor James Tour, he says that there's a way for the US to get some rare earth stockpiles because they figured out a new and efficient way to recycle the existing rare earths. And apparently you can recover almost 100% of them. So if you've got rare earth materials in your old devices, they can now quite easily with some kind of new process recover it. And did you know that Trump has already signed rare earth mining and resource deals with 11 countries? So he's got 11 countries that have made deals with us and now we have this new recycling thing. I gotta say, I don't know how long it takes before we can be independent with rare earth, but there's definitely activity and they're definitely doing the right stuff. So we'll see how far that goes.

So apparently Tesla has rolled out a new software update for their vehicles. And now I guess Grok is part of the car. So you can talk to Grok in your car and you can just tell it where you want to go and the full self-driving will kick in. So basically you just sit in your car and you say something like, "Take me to Bob's house." And Grok would probably say, "Bob? Bob who?" And then you say, "Oh, Bob, whatever." So you would just talk to i