“Weapons of Mass Disruption” with NYT’s Tom Friedman 5/8/26

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Tom Friedman discusses the geopolitics at play in the AI revolution, including President Trump’s upcoming meeting with President Xi. Friedman is calling for collaboration–even an arms deal, of sorts–between the two nations on the topic of artificial intelligence. Plus, CNBC’s Dan Murphy is in Dubai reporting on the war in Iran, and Anthropic could be nearing a valuation larger than OpenAI’s. Dan Murphy 2:32 Tom Friedman 16:55 In this episode: Dan Murphy, @dan_murphy Steve Liesman, @steveliesman Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:04.1	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.1	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.5	New York Times columnist Tom Friedman on the AI Revolution.
0:14.1	We're right on the edge of basically changing the physics of geopolitics,
0:19.1	and that's going to affect every small actor and every big actor.
0:23.4	He calls them weapons of mass disruption, and he's hoping for progress in President Trump's
0:29.1	upcoming meeting with China's President Xi.
0:31.8	We in the Soviet Union reached agreements on limiting nuclear weapons through arms control.
0:37.7	I don't see why that same approach can't work for the US and China on this limited domain.
0:44.9	Plus, the hopes for a peace deal with Iran changed by the day.
0:49.0	CNBC's Dan Murphy.
0:50.5	You've heard of the taco trade, right?
0:52.6	Now the desks are talking about nacho. This is not a chance
0:56.6	Hormuz opened. And creepy AirPods are watching you. And Anthropics billions are impressive,
1:04.7	but how do we say the name of its new large language model? Is it Mithos or Mithos?
1:10.2	It's Friday, May 8th, 2026. Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:16.6	Stand Becky by in three, two, one. Cure, please. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Squackbox
1:24.3	right here on CNBC. I'm Becky Quick along with Andrew Ross Sorkin.
1:28.3	Joe is out today. It's Friday and we're ready for it.
1:32.5	What has turned out to be a new round of fighting breaking out in the Middle East in the latest test now to this U.S. Iran ceasefire.
1:39.8	I want to get straight over our own Dan Murphy. He joins us this morning from Abu Dhabi. Good morning,
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