9/8/26: Oil Prices Skyrocket, Fmr General Says US Bases Are Gone, Nvidia CEO Says AGI Is Here
The episode examines the cascading global impacts of heightened Middle East tensions on energy markets, shipping logistics, and the U.S. economy, while also sounding the alarm on the unchecked development of advanced AI systems at OpenAI, which may be nearing artificial general intelligen
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