Big Tech's Trump era power play
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 6 August 2025
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Summary
Apple today plans to announce a new $100 billion investment aimed at boosting the compan’s production in the United States. It’s the latest in a string of moves by tech companies that could help maintain favor with the president and avoid tariffs. And, the Federal Aviation Administration wants to ease restrictions for drone package deliveries. We’ll get into the pros and cons of more drone-friendly skies. Plus, the origins of Pac-Man and a funeral fit for an AI chatbot model.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- "Federal Aviation Administration looks to expand drone package delivery" from ABC News
- "Video Shows Drone Rescuing Man During Flood in China" from The New York Times
- "Trump, Apple to Announce Fresh $100 Billion US Investment" from Bloomberg
- ”Trump to Double India’s Tariff to 50% Over Russian Oil Purchases” from The New York Times
- "'It's a reminder of childhood': How Pac-Man changed gaming - and the world" from BBC News
"Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model" from Wired
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:11.7 | Megan McCarty-Karino is joining me on the show today. Hey, Megan. Hey, Kimberly. It's always good to be back on the show. |
| 0:19.3 | And thanks to everyone else for joining us. It is Wednesday, August 6th. |
| 0:23.8 | And today we're going to do some news and some smiles, starting with the news. What's you got, Megan? |
| 0:30.6 | All right. Well, I am looking at some reporting that was in Bloomberg today that President Donald Trump is planning to announce that |
| 0:40.5 | Apple is going to be spending another $100 billion to bring some manufacturing of, you know, |
| 0:49.3 | some supply chain parts to the U.S. This is kind of on top of more than $500 billion that Apple kind of pledged in February after, |
| 1:01.0 | you know, kind of the early stages of the tariffs were happening as a way to, you know, |
| 1:08.7 | maybe get some exceptions or get some favorable treatment from President Trump. |
| 1:14.7 | That pledge of the $500 billion, I think, you know, was a lot of investments that were mostly already |
| 1:23.7 | in the works and, you know, just kind of pushing it to, uh, to the forefront to say, |
| 1:29.3 | hey, Donald Trump, like, take it easy on us on the tariffs, um, data center, AI infrastructure, |
| 1:35.5 | that kind of stuff. |
| 1:36.6 | Supposedly this, you know, new $100 billion pledge that we don't really have many details about |
| 1:43.6 | is going to be actually |
| 1:45.3 | like manufacturing some of its supply chain for its products in the U.S. But again, all of these |
| 1:51.9 | announcements kind of come with, you know, a grain assault, right? Obviously, the tariff situation |
| 1:59.7 | is evolving. Apple had kind of invested a lot in manufacturing |
| 2:06.8 | outside of China to try to avoid some of the tariffs last time around, last Trump presidency. |
| 2:13.2 | Now I guess the Trump administration is displeased that Apple has invested a lot in India, |
| 2:20.2 | in manufacturing in India, which, oh, by the way, today the Trump administration announced tariffs on India at 50%, |
| 2:29.4 | not probably because of Apple, but more related to their continuance to buy oil from Russia. |
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