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It's more of, let's say you order the lamp, it's delivered, right? You call and you say, hey, send me a new one. Yeah, they're going to send you that new one, but then they're going to file a claim with FedEx or UPS, whoever broke it. Right. And a lot of times a human's filing that. If it gets denied the first time, they'll just say it was denied. Yeah, well, we'll try 3 times. And so a lot of times on the second or third, we're getting it through. Yep. And/or you can think of what if we have to reach out to you and ask for a picture of the damaged lamp? Or, you know, on, you know, one of our largest customers is one of the biggest grocers in the United States. A lot of times the complexity of the things like, let's say it's a cold temperature breach that we have to go find from just the fact-finding and the documentation is pretty deep. And if they forget some of that, technically it might not be approved. And so it's more on the approval side.
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Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · #2554 - Carlo Rovelli · 2026-09-15Company. And they have these new— so it's a smart home hub. So it has Zigbee, Wi-Fi, Matter support. So you can connect all your smart home devices. And then it's also a local NAS. So you can store your videos and your music and your files and everything. And then there's an AI local LLM AI chip. There's one you can buy with the super NVIDIA computer in it for like $20,000. But you— the cheap, the cheap version is about $900. And it runs all the— it runs everything locally. It's an NVR. So you connect your security cameras to it. And instead of using, say, Ring or Nest and their AI processing in the cloud where you get the text descriptions that tell you what your camera has seen. So I don't know if you've started to get this on any of your cameras, Leo, but like it'll say, you know, there's a UPS driver that dropped dropped off a package at the front door as opposed to just package at door. Or it'll say, like Apple Home has started to do this with HomeKit, it'll say, Jennifer was in the backyard feeding the chickens. And, you know, it'll give you a description. And so it feeds all of those. It does all of that locally on your smart home hub, and then can use that context to drive other agents in your home. So basically, what you've set up up, it sounds like in your home, Leo, you can now kind of buy a prepackaged box from, well, can buy right now, you can't, but they've just announced them. So Eufy hasn't said how much it is.
Jennifer Pattison-Touhy · This Week in Tech (Audio) · Adversarial Clothing - The Dramatic Calls to Regulate Artificial Intelligence · 2026-09-14So the CEO of UPS.
Ben Gilbert · Acquired · Home Depot · 2026-09-14Unclear. You know, and the president and some of his economic advisers have historically said, oh, we're going to get it from the tariffs. Well, for several months now, since the Supreme Court case, they have been forking money back over. Right. On the tariff. So we're losing money on that. The people who've paid the tariff, who are consumers, right? Okay. They don't get the money back. The companies get it back. I've heard reports of some firms saying, you know, it's a very cryptic system about how you go about getting the money back because say if you, you know, brought in your good or service via DHL or UPS or something, guess what? It's, it's DHL. So they're the middleman and you got to go through them and there are phone trees and it goes on and on and it's really hard to get an answer. And so again, where this magic money is coming from, you know, there was a phrase that was used on me some years ago. They said it was right before the pandemic and they said, okay, you know, we realize people are going to be out of work, off work for months. And how do you stimulate the economy? And this is even before they really got to some of the big bills. This, this was like in March of 2020. And the phrase that was used on me was dropping money out of helicopters. So this is kind of a dropping money out of helicopters moment. I just know that helicopters and politics don't sometimes jibe. If you think historically about, you know, withdrawal from Vietnam and things like that, you just don't want to be talking about helicopters and politics.
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Speaker I · Squawk on the Street · 10AM Hour: Wells Fargo, Chime & Charter CEOs 9/9/26 · 2026-09-09He said, "I know it probably has nothing to do with it, 3,000 miles away." And we said, "That's exactly what happened, dressed up as a UPS guy." Are you thinking, "It's a long shot, but yeah, maybe this is connected"? That's what we were thinking. It was highly unlikely, but we had to follow every lead.
Joseph Battaglia · Dateline NBC · The Grudge · 2026-09-08So if you compare it to last year, the rates appear to be about the same. They're just lodged under a different mechanism for charging them. And the reality is, until you get the bill from DHL or UPS, and that tends to be the two shippers that our vendors use, you don't really know what your rates are going to be. There can be estimates, and sometimes the estimate is high, but most of the time it's low. So, um, our first real shipments will start coming in in about a week and a half, and what happens is you get an email from DHL or UPS and they say this amount and I expect it to be in the 31 to 35% range of your invoice is due now before delivery. Due before delivery. Before delivery. Yeah. Which is from a cash flow standpoint is a nightmare that in the past DHL and UPS would invoice you. So you would have 2 to 3 weeks to as a cushion. But now it is due before arrival. They won't even release it until you've paid.
Nate Axvig · Marketplace · As prices rise, so too does our credit reliance · 2026-09-07We've gotten a refund. We roughly calculate our AIPA tariffs to be at about $27,000 that we paid, and we've received about $3,000 back. But, and this is true for, for many small businesses, we are not the importer of record. For ease, what they do is they list DHL or UPS as the importer of record. So those two companies receive the refunds first from the federal government and then process them and send them back to us. So you're just sort of waiting. And, you know, we had hoped— we had considered giving refunds to people who had bought things that were increased in price due to the tariffs, but we still are waiting for about 90% of the refunds. And I don't know that we're going to get them. I don't know. Um, so we're just— we paused that too. Yeah, it is. And I mean, it's not, you know, in post-COVID, unless you're an enterprise customer, you can't really talk to anybody about it. Like, you get into, you know, you— there are phone numbers, but it's just menu tree that goes on forever, and you really never talk to a person. And I mean, I'm also running a business, so I don't have time to Focus on hold for 4 hours. Exactly. I'm trying to sell things that we have that we've already paid the tariffs on.
Nate Axvig · Marketplace · As prices rise, so too does our credit reliance · 2026-09-07Yes to all of them. I think that's just where we're at. I think we're in a moment of everybody's still trying to figure this out, but also these big tech companies have done enough over the last few years to put themselves in a position to be able to hedge in this way. It almost makes me think of just because it's something that I think about a lot or write about, I remember watching all these electric vehicle players try and, you know, start to get themselves involved in like the commercial EV market. And that's been hard because like none of the like major FedEx or UPS, they don't like make up their fleet out of just one vehicle often. You know, they're always mixing and looking for the right mix and match of the right types of vehicles. And I feel like there's a similar dynamic happening here where everybody's hedging a little bit. and putting themselves in a position where if it looks like one thing is going to be the best option, then they'll go, you know, completely after that. But until, until that becomes abundantly clear, there's just so much froth right now that it's just, it's better for them to do it this way.
Sean O'Kane · Equity · Apple's Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack · 2026-09-04Interesting. So I've become curious about where the line is, because you're right that they, you know, aren't likely to be— you know, I think if this were the president trying to assert this as a substantive rule, imposing it as a hard burden on states, that that would raise a lot bigger questions. But here, in the fact they're leaning on the president's role or the executive the executive branch's role in controlling the Postal Service, which is just one avenue by which you could do, quote unquote, mail-in ballots in theory. Although in practice, obviously, it's the dominant one. Like, in theory, you could have states FedEx or UPS, uh, you know, ballots to people. Or you could do what happens in at least Washington, D.C.— I'm sure other places as well— where you can pick up and drop off mail-in ballots. Like, I can do a, quote unquote, mail-in ballot, absentee ballot, without ever touching the mail— Postal Service. So none of these rules would affect that. To me, that's the point that gives me anxiety, because that gives the space for the court to say, "Well, look, this isn't directly regulating the election. It's just regulating this one avenue that is more in the executive branch's control." But it sounds like you're less persuaded that they're going to be able to use that tool. I'm just kind of curious if I'm wrong, that that's kind of the avenue where the court might be more— find it easiest to rule in the administration's favor, or if there's other avenues that you think make that harder.
Scott Anderson · The Lawfare Podcast · Rational Security: The "Whale of a Tale" Edition · 2026-09-03