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GOOD EVENING: THE SHOW BEGN ON THE ROAD TO INDIANA WITH COLLEAGUE JIM MCTAGUE,,,

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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GOOD EVENING: THE SHOW BEGN ON THE ROAD TO INDIANA WITH COLLEAGUE JIM MCTAGUE,,,

1942 LANCASTER CITY, PA


CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR


FIRST HOUR

9-915
 LANCASTER COUNTY REPORT: ON THE ROAD TO VALPARAISO, IN.  JIM MCTAGUE, FORMER WASHINGTON EDITOR, BARRONS. @MCTAGUEJ.  AUTHOR OF THE "MARTIN AND TWYLA BOUNDARY SERIES."  #FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY
915-930
#PACIFICWATCH: #VEGASREPORT: LIGHT RAIL FOR 3 MILLION POPULATION.  @JCBLISS
930-945
#DOGE:DOWN TO SIZE. RICHARD EPSTEIN, CIVITAS INSTITUTE.
945-1000
PRC:TARIFFS ARE LOSS. RICHARD EPSTEIN, CIVITAS INSTITUTE.

SECOND HOUR

10-1015
#NUKES ARMS RACE: IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, INDIA, PAKISTAN. HENRY SOKOLSKI, NPEC.
1015-1030
PRC: WHEN CHINA ATTACKS AND WHY?. GRANT NEWSHAM, AUTHOR
1030-1045
1/2: #NATURAL LAW: AND GOD, LIBERALISM, PATRIOTISM.  SAMUEL GREGG, CIVITAS INSTITUTE.
1045-1100
2/2: #NATURAL LAW: AND GOD, LIBERALISM, PATRIOTISM.  SAMUEL GREGG, CIVITAS INSTITUTE.


THIRD HOUR

1100-1115
5/8: AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence Hardcover – March 25, 2025
by  Gary Rivlin  (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Valley-Microsoft-Trillion-Dollar-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/0063347490

Artificial Intelligence has been “just around the corner” for decades, continually disappointing those who long believed in its potential. But now, with the emergence and growing use of ChatGPT, Gemini, and a rapidly multiplying number of other AI tools, many are wondering: Has AI’s moment finally arrived?
In AI Valley, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Rivlin brings us deep into the world of AI development in Silicon Valley. Over the course of more than a year, Rivlin closely follows founders and venture capitalists trying to capitalize on this AI moment. That includes LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, the legendary investor whom the Wall Street Journal once called, “the most connected person in Silicon Valley.”
Through Hoffman, Rivlin is granted access to a number of companies on the cutting-edge of AI research, such as Inflection AI, the company Hoffman cofounded in 2022, and OpenAI, the San Francisco-based startup that sparked it all with its release at the end of that year of ChatGPT. In addition to Hoffman, Rivlin introduces us to other AI experts, including OpenAI cofounder Sam Altman and Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind, an early AI startup that Google bought for $650  million in 2014. Rivlin also brings readers inside Microsoft, Meta, Google and other tech giants scrambling to keep pace.
On this vast frontier, no one knows which of these companies will hit it big–or which will flame out spectacularly. In this riveting narrative marbled with familiar names such as Musk, Zuckerberg, and Gates, Rivlin chronicles breakthroughs as they happen, giving us a deep understanding of what’s around the corner in AI development. An adventure story full of drama and unforgettable personalities, AI Valley promises to be the definitive story for anyone seeking to understand the latest phase of world-changing discoveries and the minds behind them.
1115-1130
6M/8: AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence Hardcover – March 25, 2025
by  Gary Rivlin  (Author)
1130-1145
7/8: AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence Hardcover – March 25, 2025
by  Gary Rivlin  (Author)
1145-1200
8/8: AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence Hardcover – March 25, 2025
by  Gary Rivlin  (Author)

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215
#RUSSIA: PRICE OF OIL AND THE WAR. MICHAEL BERNSTAM, HOOVER
1215-1230
#ITALY:FIVE KILOMETERS PROCESSION FOR FRANCIS IN ROME. LORENZO FIORI.
1230-1245
PECL DELAYS MOON AND MARS AMBITIONS. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
1245-100 AM
MARS: CURIOSITY WHEELS. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM

Transcript

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather?

0:25.6

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.7

Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.

0:34.2

Good evening. This is John Batchel.

0:37.1

The show tonight begins on the road from Lancaster County,

0:40.9

the best county in Pennsylvania, to Valaparizo, Indiana.

0:52.9

Jim McTade, former Washington editor of Barron's driving. He tells me he heads north from Lancaster through State Park, State College Park, picks up I-80 and heads west.

0:57.0

What did he find along the way? He was assigned to find out about the economy, and he did as much. First of all, there was no heavy truck traffic on I-80,

1:02.8

which he puzzled about and asked about when he met some truck drivers. And he crossed into Ohio.

1:09.7

He stopped in Pennsylvania once at Du Bois,

1:13.6

crossed into Ohio and spent the night at Youngstown,

1:17.3

making the drive a two-day affair.

1:20.4

He found Youngstown lovely with a building that was destroyed in an explosion last year.

1:27.6

Lovely and well turned out, there's Youngstown University there, but no people downtown.

1:33.8

Outside town there is apparently a plant left by General Motors bought by Foxconn.

1:39.4

That's six million square feet.

1:41.6

I can't quite imagine what it looks like.

1:44.1

It's big enough to encompass

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