Neil Freiman
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World of Warcraft, for instance, has more than 1 million players a day, and Final Fantasy is higher in the rankings.
Still, Toby, you trying to clan up?
But very lucrative.
All right, let's sprint to the finish with some final headlines.
President Trump lit into U.S.
defense contractors in a series of truth social posts yesterday, accusing them of getting fat and rich on the American government's dime.
Trump wrote defense contractors are currently issuing massive dividends to their shareholders and massive stock buybacks at the expense and detriment of investing in plants and equipment, also calling on them to limit executive pay to five million dollars a year.
He singled out Raytheon, calling the weapons maker the least responsive to the needs of the Department of War.
A few hours later, Trump put those words into action.
He signed an executive order putting pressure on defense contractors to stop conducting stock buybacks and dividends and boost their investments in infrastructure and production capacity.
Defense primes like Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon parent RTX spent almost $50 billion cumulatively on dividends and share buybacks in 2023-2022.
and 2024, compared to $39 billion on R&D and CapEx over the same period.
And speaking of stocks, you might think that Trump's comments would have knocked the shares of defense contractors, but they are all surging this morning after the president proposed expanding the military budget from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion.
Let's talk about this knife.
So it's $399 chef's knife.
It looks exactly like a knife, but it has these ceramic crystals in it that vibrate more than 30,000 times per second.
And the company says that you can actually see or feel that the vibration is actually happening because it's just so fast and small that it's undetectable to the naked eye.
But it does promise that it could cut your effort by 50% in confidence.
cutting anything so it's something that as a home chef I am interested in but when looking at the scope of CS it does seem like the main theme here is humanoid robots the all these companies want you to have your own R2D2 and LG Electronics was probably the you know the highlight of this they rolled out their new robot named Cloyd and they had to do a live demo where they tried to put it something in the wash and it did so very slowly but
This industry thinks that humanoid robots in your home doing tasks that you don't want to do, like doing the laundry, like putting stuff in the dishwasher, is the future.