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Kara Swisher

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

You think that's okay.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

The privacy issues, you don't have an issue with the people.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

You can see everybody and it's recording presumably.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

I know that trick.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

But let me just say one of the things, I'd like to not look at my iPhone anymore.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

I use my watch quite a bit, but it's not good enough.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

And if my AirPods were better, I would not pull my phone out at all.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

You know, that's the thing.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

So I think this is really interesting.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

Another interesting piece of tech, and we're very tech heavy today, SpaceX chip making project in Texas will have an initial price tag of at least $55 billion and could eventually grow to $119 billion.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

According to a public hearing notice, the project called Terafab will create chips to power AI for SpaceX and Tesla.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

I think this is a smart move by Elon.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

SpaceX is asking for tax breaks for the project, of course, which will be discussed at a hearing next month.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

And Texas will definitely give it to them because that's what Texas does.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

They bend over, speaking of

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

bending over.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

SpaceX is, of course, preparing to go public with one of the largest IPO offerings in June.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

To me, more than the robotics focus, this is really important.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

I mean, the way they do energy is sort of rapacious to the people living in the areas they're living in, and it's getting a lot of pushback.

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Midterm Map Wars, AirPods Revamp, and Trump Phone Grift

But the idea of your own chips, all these companies really have to be in that game, seems like, and it's important.