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🇺🇸 Jensen Huang's scandal could trigger an AI meltdown, and a bigger war is brewing inside Washington Economist Philip Pilkington believes the controversy is part of a much bigger battle over who controls the future of AI, and whether America should be competing with China or trying to shut it out. And he suspects powerful interests are using it to settle that fight. At the centre of the dispute is a fundamental disagreement over how America wins the AI race. Jensen has argued that Nvidia should be allowed to sell advanced chips to China, maintaining its global market share and funding the next generation of technology. But Philip says China hawks inside Washington want the opposite: tighter restrictions designed to keep Beijing behind. Meanwhile, American AI companies are betting heavily on proprietary, closed-source models, while China is pursuing an increasingly open-source approach. Philip believes Washington is backing the wrong strategy. And the timing couldn't be worse. A renewed U.S-China trade war could trigger Chinese restrictions on rare earth minerals, further pressure American technology companies and complicate Washington's position in the Middle East. And Philip believes the wider AI market is already dangerously exposed. And for Trump, the danger is that a fight intended to weaken China could end up damaging America's most important technology industry. @philippilk

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iran is denying any negotiations are happening. The real obstacle to a deal is not Trump, but Iran’s own fragmented power structure. Dr. Andreas Krieg, Associate Professor and CEO of MENA Analytica, joins to break it down. Dozens of IRGC commanders were given autonomous authority during the war. Nobody has reined them back in yet. Iran’s public denials? Those are for domestic consumption. The window for more war is closing. Neocons and CENTCOM chief Bradley Cooper have until Christmas. After the new Congress is seated in January, that window slams shut. On Iraq: the Iraqi PM is barely the mayor of Baghdad. Iran’s proxies control the border. The U.S. land blockade is pure fantasy. On the post-war Gulf: Iran is the single most untapped market in the world. Once sanctions lift, Gulf states will be first on a plane to Tehran. Economic entanglement is the only real deterrence. On Israel: Eisenkot probably lasts 12 to 24 months. Netanyahu is not gone. He is in the background, waiting. @andreas_krieg

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Is Jensen Huang being caught in a WAR between Washington's China hawks and America's AI giants? Economist Philip Pilkington reveals why Nvidia's CEO could be the biggest casualty of a battle over the future of AI: "The interests on one side are the extreme China hawks in the administration. The key people are Rubio and Stephen Miller, as far as I understand it. So you have the China hawks, and allied with the China hawks, just because it's in their business interest, are the closed-source model AI guys. Their model is threatened by the open-source DeepSeek model. And Jensen Huang is their saviour because he's selling them the GPUs to train the AIs. On the other hand, he's a giant pain in the ass because he keeps arguing for open-sourcing. There's a big war going on over this right now. And I think Huang's just the biggest and most visible casualty of that war." @philippilk

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Could Jensen Huang's scandal trigger a devastating new trade war with China, and BURST America's AI bubble? Economist Philip Pilkington warns that powerful forces inside Washington are pushing America towards an economic confrontation that could backfire spectacularly: "This will evolve into the reimposition of the chip ban, unless Jensen Huang fights his corner like crazy, Trump backs him, etc. But if that doesn't happen, the chip ban's back on the menu. Number one. And number two, the Chinese trade war is back on the menu. There is this faction in DC that is fanatical about this chip war, trade war, tech war with China. They don't have a clue about technology. They don't have a clue about economics. What's China's response if they restart the trade war? Restrict rare earth metals and these magnets like they did last year. And if they do that, if you think the AI bubble's popping now, wait till you see what happens." @philippilk

🇮🇱 Netanyahu responded to growing hostility toward Israel and antisemitism on college campuses by reaching deep into Jewish history. “Pharaoh tried to enslave us. Haman tried to annihilate us. The Romans tried to erase us. The Nazis tried to exterminate us.” Where are they today, and where are we today? We are here, stronger than ever, with an extraordinary army, an extraordinary economy, an extraordinary people.” Writer: Sol

🇺🇸 A new House investigation says authorities let Epstein get away with abuse for years. The report points to failures by prosecutors who gave him unusually favorable treatment and banks that overlooked warning signs of sex trafficking. Even after his 2008 conviction, Epstein was allowed to leave jail for up to 12 hours a day, six days a week. And survivors say he continued abusing them during that time. Now the committee wants further investigations into people linked to Epstein and changes to prevent similar failures. He had already been convicted, yet the system still failed to protect his victims. Source: Fox News / Writer: Daniyal

🇺🇸🚨 If America's AI bubble bursts, it could trigger a financial crisis that devastates the West Economist Philip Pilkington warns that U.S stock market valuations are approaching dot-com bubble territory, and the consequences of a collapse could be catastrophic: "The equity market and the AI bubble have been fundamentally disconnected from every other economic reality until very, very recently. And I think the bill's coming due on that now. The Shiller CAPE, which is the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio, is at 40 times earnings. The dot-com bubble was 44. Not only is AI a bubble, but it is potentially on the brink of popping. Six months after that happens, a year after that happens, the world will change. It'll be one of those moments of political transition and economic transition, and potential for a financial crisis too. China, Russia, all these BRICS countries will be a lot more insulated. But Western countries will be massively impacted by this." @philippilk

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Rep. Massie on Sec. Hegseth: "Hegseth HAS been effective. He was effective at killing 200 schoolchildren. He was effective at bombing fishing boats that may or may not have had people who were guilty of smuggling drugs. That's what we're impeaching him for: his effectiveness in breaking the law and violating the Constitution." 1000000% Writer: Samuel

🚨🇺🇸 UPDATE: Body covered by white sheet at GRIM North Hollywood crash scene A vehicle struck pedestrians near a Metro station tonight, killing 3 people at the scene and leaving at least 3 others critically injured. Responders reportedly helped the driver out of the vehicle and into a wheelchair. His condition remains unclear. Police are investigating what caused the crash. This is a developing story. Source: KTLA, ABC7 / Writer: Marie