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Training one of these AIs, training one of these frontier AIs takes 100,000 of the most advanced computer chip humanity can produce. This is practically the peak output of the global supply chain. Many parts of that supply chain are controlled by the US and US allies. There's roughly one fab in Taiwan that can produce these chips. There's roughly one country in the world that can produce the lithography machines that are critical in the process, which is the Netherlands, which is an ally. To assemble 100,000 of these chips to do one of these training runs that can make the more dangerous type of AI, you need to assemble them into an enormous data center that costs tons of money, that draws down electricity comparable to a city, and run it for the better part of a year. You can see that infrastructure from space. China has much less chip capacity than the US does. It is absolutely possible if we were trying for the US to say, we are going to monitor where these chips go. We are going to monitor heavy concentrations of these. These are not consumer amounts of chips. These are huge amounts of chips.
Nate Soares · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman Yampolskiy · 2026-09-17The vast majority of officials penciled in one more hike this year in interest rate projections released after their meeting. So they think there's going to be more rate hikes. Chairman Kevin Walsh vowed shortly after taking office in May to end an overshoot of the Fed's 2% target, now in its 6th year, and followed through with an increase that had been widely anticipated in recent days. The rate hike scrambled an account the White House had offered of the man tapped by the president for the job in January. Trump and his allies had cast pressure to raise rates as coming from a committee hostile to Warsh, who last year said he would have cut rates sooner than the Fed ultimately did. It also followed a lost year in the Fed's inflation fight. The central bank has made no progress towards its 2% goal since mid-2025, including after cutting rates 3 times last year to guard against labor market slowdown.
John Coogan · TBPN · METR and AI Regulation, Zuck Pushes Back on AI Slowdown, Fed Hikes Rates | Diet TBPN · 2026-09-16The president has said it. Um, we expect that the president will likely stick to that in some ways. We know that this is a president who has really gone on a multi-front trade trade war against our allies like Canada, against adversaries and other countries. So the president here, I think, is really trying to make the case that he wants the Fed to follow his lead. He, of course, as you know, was so critical of the last Fed chair. It's going to be interesting to see how he takes his case. But he said in that, in that post that he would have, quote, no choice but to stop trading with some nations, saying that their rates make it essentially— they put the United States at a disadvantage when it comes to trade. So that's the president's argument. And we're going to stick to see if he actually follows through with that, Kristen.
Yamiche Alcindor · Meet the Press · Meet the Press NOW — September 16 · 2026-09-16What were your key takeaways? Well, certainly it was a different vibe than I felt on the ground when I covered his primary against Haley Stevens. That kumbaya moment certainly didn't exist then, but it's something Democrats are trying to portray now. That's why he was invited, according to a source that I spoke to. Senator Slotkin, Senator Peters brought him here, told Senate Democrats behind closed doors yesterday that it's time to get around Abdul Al-Sayed so they can actually win in November. Michigan is such a critical seat. But one key meeting that I'm still waiting to hear if it happened is the meeting that he will have with Senator Chuck Schumer. This is somebody who didn't endorse him in the primary. We know that he and his allies spent money against him. And now I'm told he expects that meeting to be friendly. But when Al-Sayed was asked if he would endorse Schumer for leader, he didn't answer. So a lot still to watch in that space, but certainly This is a moment Democrats are trying to coalesce around, trying to put aside their differences so they can win in November.
Speaker C · Meet the Press · Meet the Press NOW — September 16 · 2026-09-16The vast majority of officials penciled in more, more, one more hike this year in interest rate projections released after their meeting. So they think there's going to be more rate hikes. Chairman Kevin Walsh vowed shortly after taking office in May to end an overshoot of the Fed's 2% target, now in its 6th year, and followed through with an increase that had been widely anticipated in recent days. The rate hike scrambled an account of the White House had offered of the man tapped by the president for the job in January. Trump and his allies had cast pressure to raise rates as coming from a committee hostile to Warsh, who last year said he would have cut rates sooner than the Fed ultimately did. It also followed a lost year in the Fed's inflation fight. The central bank has made no progress towards its 2% goal since mid-2022. 2025, including after cutting rates 3 times last year to guard against labor market slowdown.
John Coogan · TBPN · Third Party Evaluators, Fed Hikes Rates, Zuck Pushes Back On AI Slowdown | Jeremy Allaire, Tomasz Tunguz, William Layden, Justin Beroz, Eli Wachs, Sean McCarthy, Tom Mueller · 2026-09-16Yes, Sarah. Well, you heard Brian Armstrong there, and basically he's saying they're going to be looking to the White House now to regulate crypto. You know, this long, this long-awaited bill to finally regulate crypto through legislation has now seemingly failed. So they're looking to the White House, they're looking at the SEC and the CFTC and the Trump administration, which has been an ally to crypto, to regulate them now. So what would that look like?
Garrett Downs · Squawk on the Street · 11AM Hour: Senator Richard Blumenthal on AI, Early Facebook Investor Roger McNamee & Clarity Act Fails to Advance 9/16/26 · 2026-09-16Look, one thing the Democrats and their allies in the media are notoriously good at is reading off the same song sheet and reciting the exact same talking points. There's no question AI is an issue that we need to tackle as a Congress, as a government. But they obviously are trying to weaponize this into a political bludgeon ahead of the midterms more than anything else.
Mike Lawler · The Fox News Rundown · Why Beating China In The AI War Matters · 2026-09-16Ground News, in addition to being the sponsor of this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, is an app that lets you jump out of your media bubbles and see the blind spots that exist in whatever media ecosystem you operate. Ground News doesn't just show you what the news is, it shows you who's reporting the news, how many news sources are covering it, and how coverage is distributed across the political spectrum. For example, Ground News shows that there are 50 different sources reporting that Oman warned allies that ships going through the Straits of Hormuz might have to pay a fee. And the headlines are quite different depending on where you look. From right-leaning news sources, you get headlines like, "Ships face voluntary charges under plan for postwar Hormuz." From more left-leaning outlets, you get headlines like, "Oman tells allies ships going through Hormuz may have to pay.
Speaker B · The Lawfare Podcast · Lawfare Daily: Far-Right Gains and a Political Reckoning in Germany · 2026-09-16Ground News, in addition to being the sponsor of this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, is an app that lets you jump out of your media bubbles and see the blind spots that exist in whatever media ecosystem you operate. Ground News doesn't just show you what the news is, it shows you who's reporting the news, how many news sources are covering it, and how coverage is distributed across the political spectrum. For example, Ground News shows that there are 50 different sources reporting that Oman warned allies that ships going through the Straits of Hormuz might have to pay a fee. And the headlines are quite different depending on where you look. From right-leaning news sources, you get headlines like ships face voluntary charges under plan for postwar Hormuz. From more left-leaning outlets, you get headlines like Oman tells allies ships going through Hormuz may have to pay.
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Natalie Orpett · The Lawfare Podcast · Lawfare Daily: Far-Right Gains and a Political Reckoning in Germany · 2026-09-16Ground News, in addition to being the sponsor of this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, is an app that lets you jump out of your media bubbles and see the blind spots that exist in whatever media ecosystem you operate. Ground News doesn't just show you what the news is. It shows you who's reporting the news, how many news sources are covering it, and how coverage is distributed across the political spectrum. For example, Ground News shows that there are 50 different sources reporting that Oman warned allies that ships going through the Straits of Hormuz might have to pay a fee, and the headlines are quite different. Depending on where you look. From right-leaning news sources, you get headlines like, ships face voluntary charges under plan for postwar Hormuz. From more left-leaning outlets, you get headlines like, Oman tells allies ships going through Hormuz may have to pay.
Speaker B · The Lawfare Podcast · Lawfare Daily: Far-Right Gains and a Political Reckoning in Germany · 2026-09-16The European Union is proposing a new security architecture with like-minded allies amid doubts over US commitments to NATO. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her State of the Union address to say that Europe needs its own playbook to respond to security threats, including a new European Security Council and an equivalent of NATO's Article 4 mutual defenses pact.
Tiwa Adebayo · Bloomberg News Now · EU's New Security Council, Fed Rate Day, More · 2026-09-16Canada's hope is its Defence Security and Resilience Bank will give allied nations cheaper rates to borrow for their military spending. Rachel Reeves had rejected Canada's multilateral plan only a few months ago, but her replacement, Jon Healey, is a former defence secretary who quit in a row over military funding. Now he's tasked with finding the money to fund his old department while managing Britain's perilous finances. In London, James Woolcock, Bloomberg Radio.
James Woolcock · Bloomberg News Now · EU's New Security Council, Fed Rate Day, More · 2026-09-16Growing tensions between the EU and Russia come as Ursula von der Leyen delivers her State of the European Union speech this hour. The Commission president is expected to propose creating a new security architecture with like-minded allies in order to confront growing defense threats, a so-called European Security Council. She's also expected to unveil a sweeping new trade and security EU-Canada partnership with Prime Minister Mark Carney, who's set to attend. Now, The EU's financial services commissioner, Maria-Louise Albuquerque, told Bloomberg that the bloc also needs to tackle barriers within its own markets.
Caroline Hepker · Bloomberg News Now · Russia-Europe Tensions, UK Inflation Hits 5 Month High, More · 2026-09-16Canada's hope is its Defence Security and Resilience Bank will give allied nations cheaper rates to borrow for their military spending. Rachel Reeves had rejected Canada's multilateral plan only a few months ago, but her replacement, John Healey, is a former defence secretary who quit in a row over military funding. Now he's tasked with finding the money to fund his old department while managing Britain's perilous finances. In London, James Paul Cock, Bloomberg Radio.
James Walcott · Bloomberg News Now · Russia Tests Europe, US & China Discuss Tariff Cuts, More · 2026-09-16