162 - Compute Is the New Oil | Inside AI’s Power and Chip Arms Race
Description
Vic and Marcus break down the latest in AI and markets—from agentic tools reshaping work and Nvidia’s data-center dominance to the real threat of job loss across creative industries. They hit gold’s surge past $4,000, global market shifts, and China’s trade pivots, then move into healthcare: UnitedHealthcare vs. Johns Hopkins, new startup funding, Trump-era policy moves, and the rising wave of home diagnostics. The episode closes with the AI arms race, Microsoft, OpenAI, AMD, and Elon’s data-center push, asking if compute is the new oil.
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41:44 - Trump Wants to Overhaul Drug Sales. A Company Tied to His Son Stands to Benefit. WSJ
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