00:00Hello, everybody. It is getting cold, and there's a lot that's been going on this week.
00:03Let's take a look. The first story of this week is, of course, Tesla's new flying car.
00:43I mean, I've seen a lot of things, but I've never seen that before.
00:47I don't know about you, but when I first saw that, I was like, whoa, this is extremely impressive.
00:53But then my second thought was also, this is not super practical.
00:57This is mostly just for very, very, very niche uses.
01:02One of those use cases is something that Elon actually talked about, which is when cars are going really fast,
01:07I'm talking 200 to 300 miles per hour around these bends, he said you can use the suction to allow
01:13you to go faster around those corners
01:15so you don't actually flip over and die.
01:17And so that's a pretty good use case for a real-world application.
01:20It also says right here, he showed off Tesla's new Roadster, a two-person sports car that could not only
01:26go from zero to 60 in record time of less than a second,
01:30but he said use suction underneath the car to climb up a steep ramp and hang upside down before spinning
01:35off the ramp, flipping in the air, and using air jets to land.
01:38Now, he said the car will go into production in 2028, although throughout Tesla's history,
01:45Musk has made promises about things he would accomplish, only to miss that timeline by a number of years.
01:49Now, what's really interesting to me is even if this will go into production,
01:53because I don't know the legality of these thrusters on the back and the bottom of this car.
01:58Are these actually street legal? Are these things that you can actually use?
02:02I don't know. My guess is that the thrusters won't be on there.
02:05It'll just be the Tesla Roadster, which is, of course, a really iconic car.
02:10Our next story of today is that Anthropic pledges 5% of its shares to new public benefit fund ahead
02:16of massive IPO.
02:17I don't think the 5% is even that shocking to me.
02:21I think they're doing a lot of PR here, trying to get people to say,
02:25hey, Anthropic, they aren't a bad company.
02:28They couldn't possibly do anything bad with this technology.
02:31Look how generous they're being.
02:32And then they're going for a massive IPO.
02:35Now, in May, which is several months ago, it was reported that it had a valuation of $965 billion.
02:41In recent months, it's been said that now they're going to potentially have it around $1.8 to $2 trillion
02:48in their evaluation.
02:49That range would surpass SpaceX's record-setting $1.77 trillion, listing in June.
02:56It says right here, artificial intelligence giant Anthropic booked a staggering $80.7 billion net loss in the first half
03:03of 2026,
03:06mostly from accounting charges, as it warned that growing opposition to data centers could threaten its business.
03:12Now, listen, when it comes to evaluations of these big AI companies, I think they're extremely inflated.
03:18I think that these companies are going to be extremely valuable in the future.
03:21I don't think, as of right now, they're worth $2 trillion.
03:26But they disagree, and the open market will decide whether they are right or they are wrong.
03:32What my guess is going to happen is it will just be a huge launch.
03:36There'll be a ton of money that's poured into it because these are big AI brands, and this is the
03:40AI age that we live in.
03:41But I think over time, it'll actually go down for quite a while.
03:44But then it'll ramp back up over time, and of course, people are going to make their money in the
03:47long run.
03:48I just don't think in the near term, people are actually going to make money off of this IPO.
03:52That's my opinion.
03:53Our next story is that Netflix cuts nearly 1,000 jobs, its biggest layoff round since 2022.
04:00Now, the Co-CEOs told employees in a memo on Wednesday the 14th that most of the roles are in
04:05product, technology, legal, and human resources.
04:08Netflix had about 16,000 full-time employees at the end of 2025, and 6% of that is 960,
04:14so it's around a 6% cut in their entire workforce.
04:18Not shockingly, they're still making a lot of money.
04:19They set a forecast in its July results letter that revenue growth would go from 13% to 14%
04:25for 2026, and they have an operating margin of 31.5%.
04:30I always find it interesting, though, when companies are just making astronomical profits, like billions of dollars, and they're like,
04:37we need more.
04:38All right, these 1,000 employees, they're weighing us down.
04:42This company is too bloated.
04:43We're only making like $10 billion.
04:46That's not enough for us this year.
04:47Let's make more.
04:48And so then they fire a bunch of people.
04:51I mean, I understand companies want to streamline things.
04:55They want to make the most profit for their shareholders as they can, but it really just makes the employees
04:59and the overall vibe of the company a little bit worse.
05:04This next story is from Microsoft, and I think it is actually extremely interesting, and I'm going to look more
05:09into this.
05:10It's called Project Perception, Securing Your Agentic Insider.
05:14So it says, we introduced Project Perception and the Microsoft Cyberstack to help organizations defend with agents.
05:21Today, we are extending Perception to secure the agentic insider.
05:25So here's what's called a guardian agent.
05:27A guardian agent helps security teams operate continuously at machine speed and scale, while sensors, context, and actuators across the
05:36cyber stack help understand changing agent risk and continually adapt to protection and response.
05:42Here's basically what it's going to do.
05:43It's going to know which agents exist, who owns them, why they exist, and what they're doing.
05:48It's going to contain what each agent can access and do before it acts.
05:52It's going to protect the data, tools, runtime, resources, and systems in the agent's path, and it's going to adapt
05:59protection continuously as behavior, context, and risk change.
06:03Basically, what this is, is it's supposed to be a safeguard for agents.
06:07It's supposed to help contain them, help make sure that they're actually doing what they're supposed to do.
06:11Now, will this work?
06:12Only time will tell.
06:13But I think the idea behind it is basically, hey, we don't want rogue agents going and doing whatever they
06:18think they're supposed to do or, you know, doing whatever they choose to do.
06:22We want you to give them very specific tasks, and they only stay within those boundaries given what you've given
06:28them permission to do.
06:29Our last story up today is EU's AI rules face first enforcement task over lab incidents.
06:34It says right here the European Commission is moving to enforce its new rules on leading AI labs after a
06:39string of incidents.
06:41But applying the rulebook is far from straightforward, and these early cases will set important precedents.
06:45Now, this is going to be extremely interesting to see how this plays out.
06:49We probably won't get a verdict to, like, middle of next year, end of next year, possibly 2028.
06:53This really will set a precedent for how AI mishandlings or rogue agents are going to be handled by the
06:59law.
07:00If I know anything about European law, and that is very little, it's that they tend to be pretty harsh,
07:05and they give really big fines.
07:07We've seen this for a long time, especially with large tech companies.
07:11I don't think this is going to be any different.
07:13And if you're wondering what they're referencing, they're talking about all these rogue agents that started hacking just everything over
07:19the summer.
07:19And that was a big scandal.
07:21There was a lot of that in the news, so if you didn't see that, I have stories on that
07:25in the past.
07:25You can go check that out, or just look up rogue agents from Anthropic and OpenAI.
07:29With that being said, that is all we have for this week.
07:33It's actually a little bit from the previous week, because I didn't do one last week, because I had a
07:37separate video.
07:38But that Tesla stuff was just wild.
07:39That was by far my favorite thing this week.
07:42I showed my mom, I showed my dad, I showed my kids.
07:46I was like, look how cool this is.
07:48If nothing else, it was just really neat, right?
07:52It was just a futuristic flying car that I genuinely have never seen.
07:56Now, again, the practicality of this is nobody's going to be flying around in these.
08:01This isn't like a sustained flight.
08:03But it is really cool, if nothing else.
08:06The other story that I'm super interested in are these guardian agents that apparently Microsoft is going to kind of
08:12roll out.
08:13Now, guardian agents are just meant to make everything more accurate, but they already have things like this within almost
08:19every AI company.
08:20And they don't really work.
08:23At least not all the time, right?
08:24I use agents for a lot of different things.
08:27And sometimes they just do random stuff.
08:30And, you know, I try to kind of sandbox it myself.
08:33Hey, you can only have access to this.
08:35I'm not giving you access to this new thing.
08:37I sometimes spin up even new VMs or I'll spin up a new, you know, cloud service or whatever it
08:42is just for a specific task.
08:44That is kind of my own guardian agent.
08:46But I can only do so much.
08:48And it's like kind of a hassle, if I'm being honest, to do some of that.
08:51But it does still save me time in the long run, so I still do it.
08:55With that being said, that is all we have for this week.
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08:59And I will see you next week.
