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need to be connected to a data center? I think that's coming. Anyway, speaking of AI, Sam Altman of ChatGPT and OpenAI apparently has a different vision than Elon Musk does about what's going to happen to your apps. So in his world, ChatGPT will have its own app store and maybe replace the Apple App Store. But so far they have not really been successful. So they have some apps, but they're not do…

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ing to have a business that's worth a trillion dollars.

According to someone on X named Ming, I love it when I take random people I don't know about on X and act like they have a special insight. Maybe he does. Yeah, maybe Ming knows everything. Or maybe Ming is making it up because I don't know who he is. But he says that the mass production audit for Tesla's Optimus version three, that would be the robot, has been completed. And here's the new part: seven Chinese companies would be core suppliers. So for different parts of the robot, Tesla would employ seven Chinese companies. Now a lot of it I assume would be made in the US, but they would be getting parts from China to assemble.

Now you remember I was telling you that the CEO of Anduril was saying that basically every electronic component that came from China had some kind of a listening device in it that might be as big as a grain of sand or a grain of rice. Not sand, stupid, rice. Totally different. So how much can you trust robot parts that came from China? Do you think that's safe? And what would Tesla's security be? Would they make sure that every component was free from some kind of spy device? I assume so.

It's a weird time in history where we assume that China would put malicious code or malicious hardware into eve

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ry device. At the same time, you probably can't make the robots without China. So is China Tesla's friend or is it just another way China can get some control over the United States? But more to the point, they want to be ready to make 50 to 100,000 units, that would be robots, in Q1 2026. So remember how I keep asking how in the world will robots be generally intelligent and act like a butler if…

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