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On the Media

Is That Legal? Plus, DeepSeek and the A.I. Bubble.

On the Media

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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The legality of Trump’s executive orders, and overhyping A.I.

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0:00.0

All we have to do is flood the zone.

0:04.4

Pang, bang, bang, these guys will never be able to recover.

0:07.7

Steve Bannon said that back during the first Trump administration, it still holds true today.

0:13.8

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

0:17.1

Some of President Trump's recent executive orders have journalists asking a lot. Is this legal?

0:23.6

Because the president is not a king? These are letters of intent, but they don't have any binding legal force.

0:30.9

And if we treat them as though they do, they're paralyzing.

0:34.8

Plus, will China's deep seek, oh, so cheap and transparent, pop America's AI bubble?

0:41.6

It's always been this idea that America has built these big, beautiful, large language models that require all of this money based on their narrative.

0:50.2

There's not actually been much behind them.

0:52.1

It's all coming up after this.

1:00.2

Music there's not actually be much behind them. It's all coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

1:04.1

Michael Lohenger's out this week.

1:06.0

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

1:07.7

Much news was made in week two of the new administration. Here's some of what happened

1:12.7

in Washington alone. Tightly clustered hearings for some of the most dubious cabinet nominees,

1:19.2

the mass firing of inspectors general, and offered to two million federal workers to get paid

1:24.9

through September if they quit now, A bold, by which I mean

1:29.2

unconstitutional bid to impound the money Congress has appropriated for pretty much all government

1:35.3

programs, and the first fatal commercial airliner crash in the United States in 16 years.

1:43.1

Now, obviously, I'm not saying the president was behind that.

1:47.0

It would be indecent to use tragedy to take crude political pot shots, and even inferring

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