Hi and welcome to the Automotive News Shift podcast, where we bring you the latest on

automotive technology, trends, and transformation. I'm Molly Boygan, tech and innovation reporter

at Automotive News. Today's guest is George Leno, EY's America's Automotive Leader.

He gives us his take on why artificial intelligence has revolutionized autonomous vehicle development.

As you start to look at the AI and the compute power that exists today, that didn't exist last year,

it's allowing for that technology to be brought to life.

But first, let's talk about the week.

For that, I'm joined by my colleague, John Irwin, who covers the supply chain for automotive

news.

John, busy week in Detroit, lots of snow, lots of news.

What were you up to?

Yeah, definitely a busy week between all that, the Detroit Auto Show.

But, yeah, earlier in the week,

President Trump came into town and made a lot of news kind of related to the auto industry.

You know, there are obviously some moments that went viral. But, you know, one thing, you know,

I was there covering his speech for automotive news that he gave to the Detroit Economic Club.

And, yeah, a few interesting takeaways when we just look at, you know, purely what was said

related to the auto industry.

Obviously, this was coming about a year into, we're almost a year into his second term here.

And obviously over the past year or so, there's been some pretty significant moves that his administration

has made that have had pretty significant impacts on the auto industry and how companies are

thinking about where they invest, what they're investing in, whether it's shifting from, you know,

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