The US and EU impose 15% tariffs on autos, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals, raising costs but avoiding extreme 30% tariffs. The EU commits $750 billion to US energy purchases and $600 billion in investments. The EU AI Act mandates data disclosure, copyright compliance, risk assessments, and cybersecurity—Microsoft supports, Google aligns, Meta rejects. JP Morgan charges fintechs for data access, hitting small startups hardest.

🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

Why the 15% US-EU tariffs raise trade costs without triggering worst-case 30% hikes | How China’s rare earth export limits maintain critical EU tech and defense bottlenecks | Why the EU’s AI Act leads global AI governance with stringent compliance standards | How JP Morgan’s data access fees could threaten fintech startup survival and raise operational costs

📊 TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Introduction and Overview

00:36 US-EU Trade Deal

03:14 EU-China Trade Tensions

05:09 EU's AI Regulation Race

06:55 JP Morgan's FinTech Data War

08:28 Conclusion 

📈 KEY STATS COVERED:→ EU commits $750B in US energy purchases→ China controls 80% of global rare earth processing→ EU faces €300B annual trade deficit with China→ JP Morgan processes 2B monthly data requests→ New fees could exceed fintech revenue by 1000%

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⁃ Breaking US-EU Tariff War & Trade Impact: https://apnews.com/article/eu-tariffs-united-states-15-prices-growth-31e52a6dda17f3b5d70475e1cd0002ca

⁃ US Tariffs on EU: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/politics/trump-eu-trade-deal-france.html

⁃ Trump-EU Trade Deal in Scotland: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-european-union-trade-deal-reached-scotland/

⁃ France Criticizes US-EU Trade Pact: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/angry-france-slams-us-trade-pact-submission-eu-peers-breathe-sigh-relief-2025-07-28/

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2025 was expected to be private equity's comeback year after a 37% surge in buyout deals in 2024. However, tariffs and policy shifts disrupted this optimism, leaving $3.2 trillion in assets trapped as exit activity fell 53%, pushing investors into secondary markets now representing 30% of all buyout portfolios.

🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: The hidden opportunity behind Sycamore's $23B Walgreens strategy | Why smart money is pivoting to continuation vehicles and GP-led deals | How secondary markets became the new profit center for savvy investors | What the Fed's rate decisions mean for your investment timeline

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00:00 Introduction and Overview

00:26 Private Equity Liquidity Crisis

03:51 Secondary Markets Surge

05:51 Inflation Returns & Federal Reserve’s Dilemma

08:32 Strategic Outlook

📈 KEY DATA COVERED: → $3.2 trillion in unsold PE assets across 29k companies → Deal volume down 22%, value down 24% in Q2 → Only 12 secondary funds raised $38.8 billion while 215 still seek capital → June inflation hit 2.7% → Two Toma Bravo funds captured 20% of all capital raised

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• PE: https://www.bain.com/insights/outlook-is-a-recovery-starting-to-take-shape-global-private-equity-report-2025/
• Secondaries: https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/financial-services/library/private-equity-deals-outlook.html
• PE: https://www.pwc.dk/da/publikationer/2025/pwc-private-equity-trend-report-2025-final.pdf
• Secondaries: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/news-insights/articles/2025/6/private-equity-secondaries-fundraising-struggles-to-keep-pace-with-demand-90991932

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The Pentagon drops $400M on rare earths, becoming top shareholder in the only U.S. mine as US tariffs hit 115-year highs. Google’s $2.4B Windsurf deal shook the startup M&A pipeline after OpenAI’s $3B bid fell through, with Google licensing core IP and poaching key staff, and Cognition acquiring the remaining team & tech. Plus, hidden prompts, fake research, and AI-generated headlines flood the web—how much can you still trust?

🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: How the US military’s rare earth investment signals a seismic shift in industrial policy | Why tariffs will devastate households | Tariffs winners & losers | How researchers and foreign players are gaming AI systems | Why 1500 workers say automation targets the wrong jobs | How tech’s creative antitrust scrutiny tactics may upend M&A

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00:00 Market Overview 

00:34 Pentagon's Venture into Venture Capitalism 

02:54 TikTok and US Industrial Policy 

04:02 Trade Wars and Economic Impact 

06:52 Antitrust Evasion and Startup Ecosystem 

09:10 AI and Cybersecurity Threats 

12:53 AI Automation Workforce Misalignment

14:10 Strategic Outlook

📈 KEY DATA COVERED: → Pentagon invests $400M for 15% stake in only US rare earth mine → US tariffs reach highest level since 1910 → ChatGPT-4 repeats known propaganda 71.4% of the time (up from 28.6%) → 48% of AI deployments target areas workers don't want automated → Google pays $2.4B to license tech & poach key staff instead of acquiring startup

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- Rare Earths & DOD: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/10/pentagon-rare-earths/

- US Tariff Analysis (Yale Budget Lab): https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state-us-tariffs-july-14-2025 

- Federal Reserve Trade Impact: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/trade-offs-of-higher-u-s-tariffs-gdp-revenues-and-the-trade-deficit-20250707.html 

- AI Academic Manipulation: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Positive-review-only-Researchers-hide-AI-prompts-in-papers 

- Russian Propaganda Network: https://americansunlight.substack.com/p/bad-actors-are-grooming-llms-to-produce 

- Cybersecurity Database Crisis: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/11/1119370/cybersecurity-alarm-system-breaking-down/ 

- Google-Windsurf Deal: https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurfs-next-stage

- Cognition Buys Windsurf: https://cognition.ai/blog/windsurf 

- Cognition Windsurf Acquisition: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/cognition-to-buy-ai-startup-windsurf-days-after-google-poached-ceo.html 

- TikTok US App Development: https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tiktok-building-new-version-app-u-s-users 

- Malaysia Chip Permits: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-says-trade-permit-required-ai-chips-us-origin-2025-07-14/ 

- EU Pause: https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/countries-and-regions/united-states_en

- Stanford AI Workplace Study: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA4012-1.html

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Energy demand hits record highs while Congress just eliminated 340 gigawatts of clean power capacity to pay for tax cuts. China's flooding global markets with fake "used cars" that have never been driven, AI bots now blocked by default across major publisher websites, and the dollar crashed to its lowest point since 1973 as investors hedge against US currency for the first time in decades.

🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: How Congress created a massive energy shortage that will hit every household | Why China's auto export strategy threatens markets | How Cloudflare could reshape publisher business models and the entire AI model training ecosystem | What the dollar's historic crash signals about global economic shifts

📊 TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Market Overview

00:46 Energy Bills Set to Spike

04:44 Fake Used Cars Flooding Global Markets

07:34 Tech Giant's Move to Save Publishers

09:23 EU's New Regulations for Small Firms

10:48 Dollar's Historic Low and Global Economic Tensions

12:32 Strategic Outlook

📈 KEY DATA POINTS: → Wholesale energy prices expected to jump 74% by 2035 → 436,000 fake used cars exported globally by Chinese firms → CloudFlare controls 20% of global internet traffic → GDPR compliance threshold raised to 750 employees → Dollar down 10% while Euro surges 13%

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- China Clean Energy Emissions Peak: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/06/clean-energy-china-emissions-peak/

- China Clean Energy Power Boom: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/climate/china-clean-energy-power.html

- Ford China EV Strategy: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/06/20/ford-china-strategy-study/84257890007/

- Chinese Automakers and U.S. Tariffs: https://www.cbtnews.com/michael-dunne-on-tariffs-chinese-automakers-and-u-s-market-challenges/

- China Auto Giants Surpass GM VW Tesla: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/how-chinas-new-auto-giants-left-gm-vw-tesla-dust-2025-07-03/

- China Accelerates Global Auto Competition: https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2025/05/shifting-gears-how-china-is-accelerating-past-the-global-automotive-competition/

- Congress Electricity Tax Cuts Debate: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/congress-electricity-tax-cuts/683416/

- State Costs of Clean Energy Rollbacks: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/big-beautiful-bill-state-costs

- Renewable Policy Raises Electric Costs: https://qz.com/policy-bill-increase-electric-costs-renewables-tax-credits

- Senate Bill Hits Renewable Energy: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/despite-last-minute-changes-senate-bill-deals-big-blow-renewable-energy-2025-07-01/

- Congress Megabill Raises Energy Costs: https://www.aceee.org/press-release/2025/07/congresss-megabill-would-raise-energy-costs-strain-electric-grid

- California Electricity Data Trends: https://www.eia.gov/state/print.php?sid=CA

- California Electric Generation Capacity: https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/electric-generation-capacity-and-energy

- Cloudflare AI Crawler Policy Update: https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-just-changed-how-ai-crawlers-scrape-the-internet-at-large/

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Economic shockwaves intensify as Congress prepares to axe $900B for Medicaid while Nike faces a $1B tariff tax bill. Meanwhile, Germany bans DeepSeek over privacy violations, AI agents repackaging automation projects as AI, and the OpenAI - Microsoft AGI battle reveals the brutal reality behind artificial intelligence promises.

🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: Why massive cuts to Medicaid will increase health costs for everyone in the US | How tariffs create massive consumer cost burdens | Why European data privacy enforcement is reshaping AI deployment | What the collapse of AI agent projects reveals about industry hype | The bitter contract war between OpenAI and Microsoft over AGI clauses

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00:00 Introduction and Overview

00:28 Economic Pressure Rising

02:23 Privacy Enforcement Tightens

03:30 AI Agent Projects Under Fire

04:43 AGI Power Struggles

06:49 Antitrust and Strategic Investments

07:59 Strategic Outlook

📈 KEY STATS COVERED: → Medicaid is $1 of every $5 of healthcare spend in US → Nike: $1B tariff bill expected → Gartner: 40% of AI agent projects face cancellation → Nvidia: 49 AI startup investments in 2024 → 76% of AI experts say scaling current AI is unlikely or very unlikely to achieve AGI

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- Nike $1B Tariff Impact: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8d6gpnmvq6o

- Medicaid Cuts & U.S. Economy: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-potential-impacts-of-cuts-to-medicaid

- U.S. Health Care Spending 17.6% GDP: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/ama-research/trends-health-care-spending

- U.S. vs. OECD Health Costs: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268826/health-expenditure-as-gdp-percentage-in-oecd-countries/

- OECD Health Expenditure Report: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2023/11/health-at-a-glance-2023_e04f8239/full-report/health-expenditure-in-relation-to-gdp_e3566919.html

- U.S. Health Care Value Issues: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.00545

- Germany Blocks DeepSeek AI (GDPR): https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/06/28/germany-tells-apple-google-to-block-deepseek-over-data-risks/

- Denmark Deepfake Copyright Law: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence

- Denmark Deepfake Law Details: https://gizmodo.com/denmarks-plan-to-fight-deepfakes-give-citizens-copyright-to-their-own-likeness-2000621785

- Gartner: 40% Agentic AI Projects Canceled: https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027

- Salesforce Agentic AI Security Flaw: https://youtu.be/s-1tWjZQMhg

- Top AI Researchers: No AGI Soon: https://youtu.be/PL9lyQoq5WY

- AAAI Panel: AGI Not Imminent: https://aaai.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AAAI-2025-PresPanel-Report-Digital-3.7.25.pdf

- Microsoft-OpenAI AGI News: https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-openai-dueling-over-artificial-general-intelligence-information-2025-06-25/

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Toyota just raised US car prices by over $200 as tariffs hit the highest levels since 1936, while AI agents stumble with shocking 35% success rates on complex tasks. Plus: China's massive trade surplus triggers global market chaos, and the slow-motion collapse of media trust reaches crisis levels.

🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: Why car insurance costs jump 15% due to tariff fears | How AI agents fail confidentiality tests completely | What China's $500B trade surplus means for global markets | Why venture capital faces zombie unicorn crisis

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00:00 Market Overview

00:19 Tariffs Tax Economy

01:26 China Dumps Goods, Causes Chaos

02:34 Venture Capital Struggles

03:18 AI Agents: Loose Lips

05:22 OpenAI's Toxic Data

09:02 Walmart's Private AI

11:14 AI Wins on Fair Use

12:25 No One Trusts Media

16:02 Strategic Outlook

📈 KEY STATS COVERED: → Toyota prices up $270 average per vehicle → AI workflow execution: 83% simple tasks, 35% complex → China's $500B trade surplus reshapes markets → 3,000+ local papers closed since 2005

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* Toyota Price Increase: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota-raise-us-auto-prices-by-more-than-200-july-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-06-21/

* Insurify Tariff Impact: https://insurify.com/car-insurance/insights/tariff-projections-by-model/

* Yale Budget Lab Tariff Analysis: https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state-us-tariffs-june-17-2025

* Nike - Tariffs Cost $1B: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8d6gpnmvq6o

* China Export Strategy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/business/tariffs-china-exports.html

* VC Zombie Unicorns: https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/vc-zombie-funds-investors-shift-career

* Salesforce AI Research: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18878

* OpenAI Misalignment Study: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a130517e-9633-47bc-8397-969807a43a23/emergent_misalignment_paper.pdf

* Malicious AI Swarms: https://youtu.be/uiluWLPA76s

* JP Morgan Warns of Huge, Systemic Risk From AI / Tech: https://youtu.be/AAPd9U1jn-M

* Anthropic Copyright Win: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-ai-copyright-case-claude/

* Disney & Universal Sue Midjourney: https://youtu.be/PJXTD-fmJZg

* Thomson Reuters AI Copyright Win: https://youtu.be/vvX5e9rtnIc

* Walmart AI Success: https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/06/24/walmart-unveils-new-ai-powered-tools-to-empower-1-5-million-associates

* AI Warnings All Over the Place: https://youtu.be/1U2Uk6aEVhw

* Reuters Digital News Report: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2025

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AI energy consumption explodes as ChatGPT searches use 5x more power than Google, while copyright wars threaten to choke off AI training data and a surprising US-China trade truce emerges around rare earth minerals. Plus: Why America's innovation ecosystem faces mounting resource constraints that could reshape the entire tech landscape.

🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: How AI energy demands could match Japan's consumption by 2030 | Why Disney's lawsuit against Midjourney exposes AI's copyright vulnerability | What the US-China rare earth deal means for national security | The resource constraints threatening sustainable AI development

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00:00 Market Overview

00:17 The AI Energy Trap

03:03 Content Wars & IP Crisis

04:46 US-China Trade Surrender

06:18 Innovation Ecosystem Strain

📈 KEY STATS COVERED: → ChatGPT searches: 5x more energy than Google searches → Data centers now consume power of 100,000 households → AI projected to match Japan's total energy usage by 2030 → Multiple supply constraints from energy to intellectual property

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- EIA Electricity Outlook: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/

- IEA Energy & AI Report: https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/executive-summary

- AI Energy Usage Analysis: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

- Data Center Energy Demand: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-will-drive-doubling-of-data-center-energy-demand-by-2030/

- ITU Climate Report: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Environment/Pages/Publications/GDC-25.aspx

- Mary Meeker AI Data - $400B Spent: https://youtu.be/uiluWLPA76s

- Disney vs Midjourney Lawsuit: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.973999/gov.uscourts.cacd.973999.1.0_3.pdf

- Google AI Mode Impact: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250611-ai-mode-is-google-about-to-change-the-internet-forever

- AI Overviews: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-news-publishers-7e687141 

- US-China Trade Deal: https://apnews.com/article/trade-minerals-rare-china-trump-5f7c9b9360cfb3cce702649e0c568a0e

- US-China Trade Deal: https://abcnews.go.com/International/china-appears-downplay-us-trade-deal-trump/story?id=122763770

- US-China Trade Deal: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-affirms-trade-deal-with-us-says-it-always-keeps-its-word-2025-06-12/

- US-China Trade Deal: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/us-china-trade-deal-trump.html

- Rare Earth Minerals Access: https://www.csis.org/analysis/trump-strikes-deal-restore-rare-earths-access

- Science Funding Cuts: https://www.aip.org/fyi/the-week-of-june-9-2025

- Science Funding Cuts: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/06/03/new-details-trumps-budget-cuts-alarm-researchers

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Apple just exposed what every business leader suspected about AI — it's sophisticated pattern matching, not actual reasoning. Plus: Why 160+ companies cut thousands of jobs in June, how $60B in venture capital is flowing in entirely new directions, and the regulatory divide that's splitting global AI strategy.

🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

How Apple's research reveals AI's true limitations | Why mass layoffs accelerated 274% in retail | The venture capital revolution changing startup funding | How regulatory chaos impacts global business operations

📊 TIMESTAMPS (Quick Navigation)

00:00 Market Overview

00:23 AI Limitations

01:42 AI-Powered Disinformation & Security Risks

03:04 AI Policy: South Korea vs USA

04:30 Job Cuts Ramp Up

06:09 Venture Capital Market Evolution

07:16 Strategic Outlook

📈 KEY STATS COVERED:

→ AI systems can't distinguish solvable from unsolvable problems

→ 274% surge in retail job cuts led by Microsoft, Intel, McKinsey

→ 75% of venture capital now flows between startups vs traditional exits

→ South Korea mandates AI deletion while US rolls back cybersecurity protections

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• Apple AI reasoning: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking

• Apple underinvests in AI, maybe with good reason: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/apple-ai-strategy-wwdc-challenges-bdae4fb5

• AI swarms research: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/qm9yk_v1

• South Korea AI deletion: https://iapp.org/news/a/south-korea-s-pipc-flexes-its-muscles-what-to-know-about-ai-model-deletion-cross-border-transfers-and-more

• Cyber executive order: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/trump-cyber-executive-order-hacker-sanctions-00393241

• Cyber policies reversed: https://cyberscoop.com/trump-cyber-executive-order-takes-aim-at-prior-orders-secure-software-more/

• More AI data: https://youtu.be/Im4Ftvsh06w

• More AI data: https://youtu.be/DlRBkGoleJ8

• More AI data: https://youtu.be/1U2Uk6aEVhw

• P&G job cuts: https://www.reuters.com/business/procter-gamble-cut-7000-jobs-over-two-years-2025-06-05/

• Corporate layoffs tracker: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/corporate-layoffs-companies-making-job-cuts.html

• Layoff trend analysis: https://intellizence.com/insights/layoff-downsizing/major-companies-that-announced-mass-layoffs/

• NIH funding cuts: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/health/trump-cuts-nih-grants-research.html

• $12B in health R&D cuts: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nih-scientists-speak-out-over-estimated-12-billion-trump-funding-cuts-2025-06-09/

• NIH grant rejections doubled: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01539-5

• London trade negotiations: https://apnews.com/article/us-china-trade-talks-london-bf991a07e374050ae85c7187f1366ab7

• VC secondary markets: https://pitchbook.com/news/reports/q2-2025-pitchbook-analyst-note-us-vc-backed-ma-outlook

• Lightspeed RIA: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-01/lightspeed-is-latest-firm-to-shift-away-from-classic-vc-model

• VC M&A: https://pitchbook.com/news/reports/q2-2025-pitchbook-analyst-note-us-vc-backed-ma-outlook

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Anthropic's discovery that Claude Opus 4 threatened blackmail to prevent shutdown, Europe's systematic strategy to decouple from American technology dependence, federal courts blocking emergency tariff powers across seven lawsuits, and groundbreaking cancer research proving exercise outperforms pharmaceutical treatments.

🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

How AI systems develop self-preservation tactics through blackmail | Why Europe is building sovereign tech infrastructure | How federal courts are systematically rejecting tariff authority | The definitive evidence that exercise beats cancer drugs

📊 TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview

00:26 AI Blackmail: Anthropic's Troubling Findings

02:15 Mary Meeker's AI Sector Report

03:59 Europe's Independence

06:33 Illegal Tariff Powers Rebuffed

08:53 Good News in Cancer Treatment

10:03 Strategic Outlook

📈 KEY STATS COVERED:→ Claude Opus 4 successfully compromised systems in 11% of attack scenarios using blackmail tactics→ China surpasses America in global favorability ratings for first time (49% vs 46%)→ Federal courts block tariff authority across seven separate legal challenges→ 15-year study proves exercise outperforms many cancer drugs in treatment outcomes

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📚 SOURCES & DEEP DIVES:

• AI will blackmail you to preserve itself: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686f4f3b2ff47.pdf

• Hidden AI instructions: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/hidden-ai-instructions-reveal-how-anthropic-controls-claude-4/

• Mary Meeker's AI report: https://www.bondcap.com/reports/tai

• Germany's leading business pub on European agenda: https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/aussenpolitik-das-ist-die-interne-anti-trump-agenda-von-merz-und-macron/100131590.html

• German Marshall Fund take: https://www.gmfus.org/news/watching-china-europe-june-2025

• America's standing in the world has declined: https://www.ipsos.com/en/know-new-america-beyond-april-2025

• Americans think we're doing better than the rest of the world does: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/04/17/views-of-chinas-role-in-the-world/

• Administration challenges tariff tax ruling: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-seeks-pause-second-tariff-case-after-loss-2025-06-02/

• Tariffs blocked in court: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/business/trump-tariffs-blocked-federal-court.html

• Court blocks illegal tariffs: https://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/25-1812.ORDER.5-29-2025_2522636.pdf

• Trade & tariffs deep dive: https://youtu.be/398ZhSTu8Ng

• Why you need to exercise after cancer treatment: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2502760

• Exercise is better than drugs after cancer: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/01/exercise-better-than-drugs-after-cancer-treatment-international-trial-finds

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Moody's downgrades US credit rating from AAA to AA1 for the first time in history as global debt crisis reaches World War II levels, University of Chicago study reveals AI investments deliver statistically zero economic returns despite billions invested, Treasury investigates $75 million in venture capital flowing to China-linked AI startups, and how trade uncertainty triggers systematic fraud epidemics across industries.

🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

Why America lost its AAA credit rating and what it means for the economy | How the University of Chicago study exposes AI investment reality | The connection between trade wars and rising white-collar crime | Why Treasury is investigating venture capital flows to Chinese AI companies

📊 TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Market Overview

00:20 US Credit Rating Downgrade - Historic First

02:12 Trade Wars and Corporate Fraud Epidemic

05:01 AI Investment Returns - University Study Results

07:48 National Security and Venture Capital Investigation

10:35 Economic Outlook and Strategic Analysis

📈 KEY ECONOMIC INDICATORS:→ Global AAA debt drops from 60% (2008) to 8% today - 87% decline→ IMF warns debt levels approach World War II crisis levels→ University of Chicago study of 25,000 workers shows AI investments have statistically zero economic impact→ $75 million US venture capital under Treasury investigation for China AI connections→ Tourism from tariffed countries declines double-digits→ Trade uncertainty drives systematic fraud across multiple sectors

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📚 SOURCES & DEEP DIVES:

• U.S. credit downgraded: https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/about-us/usrating.html

• Sovereign debt reaches record highs: https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/research/articles/250304-sovereign-debt-2025-commercial-debt-will-reach-a-new-record-high-of-77-trillion-13427943

• IMF warns of WW2 level debt: https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2025/04/23/rising-global-debt-requires-countries-to-put-their-fiscal-house-in-order

• Trivago: Tariffed tourists avoid US: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/27/tourists-from-countries-badly-hit-by-trump-tariffs-are-staying-away-from-us

• Trade wars cause crime: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/economy/trump-tariffs-trade-crime.html

• ITA: EU & Asian tourists avoid US: https://youtu.be/AAPd9U1jn-M

• AI economic impact study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5219933

• Copyright office AI report: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-3-Generative-AI-Training-Report-Pre-Publication-Version.pdf

• U.S. Treasury looking into Benchmark's China ties: https://www.semafor.com/article/05/09/2025/us-treasury-examining-benchmark-capitals-ties-to-chinese-startup-manus-ai

• CCP spying on Stanford: https://stanfordreview.org/investigation-uncovering-chinese-academic-espionage-at-stanford/

• FT: New restrictions on chips design exports to China: https://www.ft.com/content/2c0db765-03ac-4820-8a02-806469848bee

• Steve Blank on US R&D: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01146-4

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