All right, everybody. Welcome back. It's Monday. I'm still sick, but I'm going to power through lots of talk about despite my best advice. He is getting in fact power through the news is too interesting. What are you going to do? You know, we've got there were lots of reactions over the weekend to Google's layoffs and how they were handled and also just the reckoning coming to the culture that in many ways Google created.

Yeah, we have tons of tick-tock videos people are trying to process this massive layoff by Google after Microsoft and Salesforce and Amazon and Facebook.

And we have a talk about perhaps reaching peak employment feels like we've reached peak employment.

It does and that feeling is only exacerbated by the rise of open AI and chat GPT and how quickly AI is progressing Microsoft codified.

It's deal with open AI. So we have a couple new details about that, including that open AI will be will have a lot more access to a lot more real time information.

Elliott management, the activist investors also made a multi billion dollar deal to invest in Salesforce. I think we all know what that means.

And this is after other activist investors got involved with Google, which resulted in layoffs. Now it looks like Elliott management is going to probably pressure Salesforce to make some more cuts.

I got to say I thought Salesforce was untouchable for so long that this is a pretty big deal. And then finally we have a cool and creepy and fascinating and super useful. We live in the future.

Nvidia made a kind of insane update to their broadcast 1.4 software. AI generated eye contacts. Yes, you don't have to get trained on this anymore.

You can just have the software do it. It's going to be rich. Stick with us.

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All right, everybody. I can't believe it's Monday. I'm still sick. God, you really are worst sickness. I've had

perhaps in my life. I mean, this is like five COVID to five times or 10 times COVID.

I've lost my voice. Just upper respiratory, but it's broken. So over the weekend of broke and I've been steaming

and yeah, yeah, on the road to recovery. I've got another friend who has this right now and it is scary. It's guy.

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