Neil Freiman
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You hear that, Toby?
I know you hate ties.
So you need to have a pocket square in your suit if you're going sans tie.
It's okay to mix patterns.
Just make sure the pattern on the jacket is bigger than the one on your shirt.
And then when you go to a fancy dinner and you see this huge wine list and languages you don't understand,
It's acceptable to order anything but a rosé.
There's two sides to this debate.
There's one side, and on this side is David Sachs, who's the AI leader in the White House, and Jensen Huang, who is the CEO of NVIDIA.
They have been pushing Trump to allow sales of these higher-end semiconductors to China because they say that
it will lead to Chinese dependence on American technology for AI.
And that is the way to spread technological soft power across the world, especially in China.
So they say, instead of cutting us off from the market, why don't you let us get in there and make them dependent on us?
And that appears to be the argument that won out.
The other argument against this, like Senator Warren and many others, say that we're giving them China right now.
First of all, we're locked in this big geopolitical race for the next what could be the next industrial revolution.
And right now we're giving them our main advantage.
So they might have engineers.
They might have better technology.
power, but we have Compu, we have NVIDIA, we have these chips that all these AI models run on, and we're giving, basically ceding to them our main advantage.