Neil Freiman

flocking to Costco gas stations.

Costco also saw a 12% sales increase from the past year.

Another thing that's guaranteed his life is Costco beating revenue expectations.

So you're right, there is a debate about whether a low savings rate or a high savings rate is an indication of a healthy consumer because during the 2008 financial crisis, the savings rate was above 8% and now we're at 2.6%.

Right now, it seems like people are just paying a ton for gasoline.

This is one of the fastest growing startups ever, and it's got to feel good for the Amadei siblings.

Back in 2021, they were working at OpenAI and Dario and his sister, Daniela.

Dario is now the CEO of Anthropic and Daniela is the president of Anthropic.

They left OpenAI because they were worried that OpenAI wasn't concerned about AI safety enough.

So they started Anthropic and baked safety into the very core of the company and

And their mission continues to be, quote, safely guiding the world through a technological revolution that has the potential to change the course of human history.

Now, for many years, OpenAI was the face of an AI startup.

They released Chachi Petit.

They got everything going.

But now it feels like Anthropic has...

surpass them, not only in valuation, but in just being the reputational and just the public image of AI.

And they've just been in headlines everywhere.

They've been fighting with the Pentagon.

They released Mythos, which was this AI model for cybersecurity that they said was too dangerous to release to the public.

And then Pope Leo earlier this week issued that AI encyclical, this big letter that was talked about everywhere.