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NPR News: 01-21-2025 6PM EST

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

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0:00.0

This is Eric Glass.

0:01.3

On This American Life, sometimes we just show up somewhere, turn on our tape recorders, and see what happens.

0:06.1

If you can't get seven cars in 12 days, you've got to look yourself in the mirror and say,

0:11.9

holy, what are you kidding me?

0:13.2

Like this car dealership, trying to sell its monthly quota of cars, and it is not going well.

0:17.6

I just don't want one balloon to a car.

0:19.4

Balloon the whole freaking place, so it looks like a circus. Real life stories every week.

0:25.0

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The nation's artificial intelligence infrastructure

0:32.8

is apparently getting a massive multi-billion dollar boost. President Donald Trump today announcing

0:39.2

investments in a new entity that will be dubbed Stargate, which he says will lead to a burst of

0:43.3

job creation. A new American company that will invest $500 billion at least in AI infrastructure

0:50.5

in the United States and very quickly moving very rapidly, creating over 100,000

0:56.8

American jobs almost immediately.

0:58.9

Top executives from Oracle, OpenAI, and SoftBank joining Trump to make the announcement,

1:03.5

saying they'll start building out projects for the fast-evolving AI industry.

1:07.4

The CEOs say the massive investment in AI infrastructure could help jumpstart creation of new drugs to treat cancer and other diseases.

1:15.2

The Trump administration has begun going after migrants in the country without legal status.

1:20.4

It's part of a promise to deport millions.

1:22.7

Trump's borders are Tom Holman says immigration and customs enforcement agents are focusing on those with criminal

1:28.9

records. Imperas Sergio Martinez-Beltron reports.

1:32.1

Holman told CNN the administration is not conducting mass rates, but targeted enforcement

1:37.7

operations. The priority is migrants who do not have legal status and have committed

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