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Here's some news that might sound nerdy and small to you but it might be really, really big. The company called Figure, they make robots that look like humanoids, something much like Tesla. And their latest announcement is they're not going to use OpenAI as the brains of their computer or the brains of their robot. And that's a big deal because they had an agreement with OpenAI. So they were already in association with OpenAI. But what they found was that OpenAI was great for sort of general purpose stuff but it wasn't optimized for robots. So somehow Figure made its own AI or found a different one, but they got an AI that's optimized for robots.
And the head of Figure is predicting that the world will not be lots of machines filled with generic AI but rather every device might have its own AI, an AI that's trained on the specifics of what you need to be a robot or something like that. So I don't know if the robot would then not be able to answer general questions the way an OpenAI would be, but apparently it's going to give them the ability to roll out an operating robot way faster than if they used a generic AI. So that's coming. Something coming in the next 30 days, they say. That's going to be a big deal.
Here's some good news. Every now and then there's a story that just makes you feel good. And this one is the, let's call it the conclusion I hope, of the Daniel Penny story. You remember Daniel Penny. He tried to save some people in a subway but unfortunately the person he was holding down died. He was cleared of all that in what I thought was a racially motivated case. But once you go through that kind of thing it's hard to get your life back together. So here's the good news. He was just offered a job by Andreessen Horowitz, so Marc Andreessen's company with Ben Horowitz. And it's one of the big venture capital companies in Silicon Valley, one of the most famous noted ones. And they're going to teach him investing.
Now I don't know if that means he's actually going to be making investment decisions or if it means that he needs to learn what the company does so that he finds his role there, because I don't know what background he has to make him a venture capitalist. But on the other hand maybe it's not that hard to train somebody to be a venture capitalist. It's not like they get most of their plays right. Most of the bats, even by the smartest people, end up being the wrong bat. But they can play the numbers, make it work. So that's great. That is nothing but good news. And I love the fact that Andreessen Horowitz stepped up to just write that little bit of wrong in the world. And I'd like to thank them personally. So Andreessen Horowitz, nicely done. I think the country, or at least a big part of the country, just appreciates that. It just tied up that story just the way it needed to be. Because you want to know that somebody who put their own neck at risk, which is what he did, you want to know that if somebody risks their neck for other people and doesn't ask anything in return, can still have a good outcome. So wow, made me feel good.
I guess Trump's going to keep things interesting today by allegedly signing some kind of executive order that would ban biological males from women's sports. Now we don't know how deeply that goes. Would that include professional sports? And would he even be able to do that? Would it include all high school and college? We don't know, but we'll see. I would argue that although he genuinely wants to do this and his base genuinely wants it, I think a majority of the country, actually over 50%, are completely on board with this. But what I love about it is it's part of overwhelming the news.
I didn't realize, I saw a video I think it was maybe at the beginning of the first term of Trump, his first four years, and it was Steve Bannon explaining how to defeat the fake news. And you do it by overwhelming them so that they can't get a beat on anything. There's just more coming than they can handle. And you see that in action. So this was perhaps Steve Bannon's original strategy. Maybe he got it from someone else, I don't know. But it was fun to see the origin of that. It looks like that might have been the origin of just overwhelming the news. So I see this executive order as well as a lot of the other ones as part of that strategy to make sure that they just can't figure out what he's doing. There's just too much going on. And this one's wonderful because it gets everybody worked up. Oh, biological men in women's sports, we've got to fight about this. So perfect strategy.
Meanwhile, I don't know if this is true but I think it was the Wall Street Journal that was saying that RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard are on a glide path to confirmation. Do you think that's true? I guess they both got out of committee, which is the step before the full vote. And getting through the committee is hard enough. And probably that tells you what the vote will do. But I don't know, is it really a done deal? I guess the thinking is that the Republicans who might have resisted have been co-opted. So they either got some kind of thing in response or they got some assurances or something. But it's looking like maybe they're going to go through. Maybe they're going through now.
What I like is that the reason given that the RFK Jr. nomination would go through is that the politicians were afraid of saying no, which I don't think you see with most nominees. But what you saw when it looked like RFK Jr. might not be confirmed, people went nuts. And they should, because we had a deal. You know what I mean? We had a deal, which is if RFK Jr. takes the enormous risk of playing with Trump, we got to back him. And not only did his own MAHA people, who kind of allowed themselves to be wrapped in the Trump world for at least to get their stuff done, I think we owed them a deal's a deal. So if we don't get RFK Jr. through, I'm going to go nuts. And I'm going to make sure whoever voted against him, who's a Republican, definitely knows that was a bad idea. Eventually they're going to know that was a very bad idea. But it looks like maybe they'll get through. So could be good news.
According to Futurism, a publication, the FBI has quietly revealed that it has a real life UFO office. The FBI has a UFO office, just like the X-Files. Now apparently the Pentagon also had a UFO office, or maybe it was a UAP, but real UFOs
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. So I've got a suggestion for DOGE. If you're looking for an easy cut, I don't think we need a UFO office. Have they found one yet? Let's put it this way. If the UFO office of the FBI found a real UFO, they can stay. If they haven't found a UFO yet, maybe we don't need the UFO office. It's funny that it even exists anyway. Apparently El Salvador keeps doing smart things. Have you noticed that wh…
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