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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
But I think, like, you know, that's such a good point, Kyle, because the thing that really stuck out to me is when they started doing, like, the Trump administration, when they did their trip to the Middle East, like, who did they bring with them?
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
You know, Sam Altman, Sri Ram, like...
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
You know, when they went to China recently.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
Yeah, like our geopolitical politics, our defense strategy.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
I mean, it's really hard to even think of an area where biotech, you know, like drugs at the FDA.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
It's hard to think of an area that's volatile and important where they're not trying to have some influence.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
Yeah.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
Yeah, I mean, I think getting rid of the employee pushback, you know, like silencing, firing, marginalizing the employees who objected to it, even though there were always ties from the start of Silicon Valley to now.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
But yeah, I think you're right, Taylor.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
And right now they're also just like searching for growth everywhere.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
I mean, Steve Bannon is like he has been on a on a very focused anti big tech, anti tech, you know, about A.I.,
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
And I haven't seen that really affect the Trump administration's decisions, but his ability to rile up the MAGA base, I think, is still there.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
And, you know, we're seeing this now.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
We're seeing it a little bit when they tried to do a moratorium on state laws or when they tried to penalize states for passing regulation against AI.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
You have a lot of small government...
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
state legislators, that part of the Republican base really pushing back.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
Jacob Kingston grew up in an isolated polygamous sect.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
We were God's chosen kingdom on earth.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
He felt destined for greatness.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
So when a swaggering Armenian businessman catapults Jacob into an extraordinary world, he doesn't look back.