Tesla’s A.I. Ambitions, Fund Manager Shares Bear Case on Ark Funds & Former Facebook General Counsel on the FTC’s Antitrust Case
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🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Fort. |
| 0:00.8 | You're listening to CNV welcome to Tech Check. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm Deer Draboza with Carl Kintania. |
| 0:30.9 | Today, Elon Musk's AI ambitions are head and shoulders above what we thought. |
| 0:35.8 | Just don't tell his new dancing robot man. |
| 0:38.7 | Bernstein breaks down why Tesla's Dillusel. |
| 0:41.5 | Then do not pass go. |
| 0:42.9 | The government reopens its antitrust case against Facebook, |
| 0:46.6 | insisting it is a monopoly. |
| 0:48.7 | And later, grab your five wood. |
| 0:50.3 | A fund manager makes the bare case against ARCETs |
| 0:53.9 | and response to her Kathy Wood |
| 0:55.6 | interview yesterday, Carl. |
| 0:58.3 | First up, D, we'll begin our feed with Tesla, of course. |
| 1:01.3 | Elon Musk, as you said, putting the artificial in AI last night in an event that will be |
| 1:06.1 | remembered for the introduction of a humanoid robot that Musk promises will be able to eventually perform some |
| 1:13.6 | menial tasks. Here's a video of the prototype. The only catch, that's just a guy in a spandex suit. |
| 1:19.6 | It's not the first time, though, that Elon has put on a big show. Remember the cyber truck? |
| 1:24.0 | That was already two years ago and promised for a delivery in 2021. Production hasn't started. |
| 1:30.1 | Pushed back to 2022 at the earliest. Then, of course, there was the high-end model S, dubbed the plaid |
| 1:35.2 | and the plaid plus. That was announced back in January, but delivery has also been delayed with the |
| 1:40.1 | plus version scrubbed entirely. Kind of reminiscent of Nikola, some say, a dancing man in a suit, pretending to be an AI robot, an electric truck rolling down a hill. |
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