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why is no one talking about this? schmidt: china's AI strategy is not pursuing "crazy" AGI strategies like america, but applying AI to everyday things. this is because their capital markets lack depth, and compute is blocked. he warns this plus lack of open source are major… https://t.co/W7RnEDtoG5

— Aaron Slodov (@aphysicist) https://twitter.com/aphysicist/status/1971412336138199244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Instead, Schmidt explained that China is focusing on embedding AI into practical applications, from consumer apps to robotics.

“The result is they're very focused on taking AI and applying it to everything,” the former Google CEO said. “And so the concern I have is that while we're pursuing AGI, which is incredibly interesting and we should talk about and all of us will be affected by this, we better also be competing with the Chinese in day-to-day stuff. Consumer apps."

Schmidt then highlighted China's robotics sector as a case study, drawing parallels to its success in electric vehicles.

“I saw all the Shanghai robotics companies and these guys are attempting to do in robots what they've successfully done with electric vehicles, right? And their work ethic is incredible,” Schmidt said. "They're well-funded. It's not the crazy valuations that we have in America. They can't raise the capital, but they can win across that.”

Schmidt also raised concerns about China's open-source strategy, which he sees as a geopolitical challenge.

“The other thing the Chinese are doing, and I want to emphasize this is a major geopolitical issue, is that my own background is open source," Schmidt said.

"Open weights means open training data. China is competing with open weights and open training data. And the US is largely and majority focused on closed weights, closed data,” he added. “That means that the majority of the world, think of it as the Belt and Road Initiative, are going to use Chinese models and not American models.”

As artificial intelligence reshapes the global economy, a cascade of eye-popping deals is pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into sprawling data-center empires, with OpenAI at the epicenter. The latest salvo came this week, as Nvidia https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nvida-stock-surges-after-announcing-100-billion-openai-investment?ref=rawdiary.com

, these colossal investments are propelling U.S. tech giants into an unprecedented spending spree, even as skeptics warn of a frothy market driven more by hype than hard returns.

Ever since the Stargate project was announced, questions have https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/sam-altman-masa-sons-massive-stargate-initative-flops-nothing-hot-air-between-two

around whether Softbank has the funds to make it a reality. Others have pointed to the Nvidia-OpenAI deal as a negative signal for the latter.

“While the announcement is positive for OpenAI’s ability to ramp, we are concerned NVDA has become the ‘investor of last resort’, bailing out OpenAI’s overextended commitments,” D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria https://www.barrons.com/articles/nvidia-stock-price-openai-deal-9764eb1b

in a recent research note.

Watch the entire interview below:

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"The report says the apology is central to the current effort to finalize a deal to end the war in Gaza and secure the release of all hostages, since Qatar had been refusing to mediate negotiations with Hamas since the Israeli strike, which targeted but failed to kill several key Hamas leaders in Doha," https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/in-phone-call-from-white-house-netanyahu-apologizes-to-qatari-pm-over-doha-strike-report/

details.

Trump wants to put this whole episode behind the US and Israel, amid suspicions from Arab officials that he 'greenlighted' the brazen Doha attack (a claimthe US rejects), for the sake of pushing his Gaza https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/in-phone-call-from-white-house-netanyahu-apologizes-to-qatari-pm-over-doha-strike-report/

:

It further reports that Trump, in an earlier conversation with the emir of Qatar before Netanyahu arrived at the White House, said that he wants the leaders of all eight Arab and Muslim states with whom he met last week and to whom he presented the deal, to publicly support it even though he’s made changes to it that move it closer to Israel’s positions.

President Donald J. Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict:

1. Gaza will be a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.

2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.

3. If… https://t.co/veqhr9MW28

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1972726021196562494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Netanyahu had faced some degree of internal intelligence opposition to pulling the trigger on the strike, which utilized long-range missiles launched from jets operating above the Red Sea.

His own intelligence officials argued that this would effectively shut the door on any future negotiations with Hamas to get the hostages back.

But Netanyahu is now demonstrating his 'shoot first, apologize later' approach - and Qatar will likely have to be satisfied with this, given it will fall under pressure by the US administration to do so. He just told FOX:

"We weren't attacking Qatar anymore than the US was attacking Pakistan when it took out Bin Laden."

Given past threats like the below, was the apology genuine?

⚡️BREAKING

Netanyahu threatens Qatar with more airstrikes:

'I say to Qatar and all the countries that harbor terrorists, either expel them or bring them to justice, because if you do not, we will do it' https://t.co/1LiKVSKUtp

— Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) https://twitter.com/IranObserver0/status/1965841213602644300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Qatar has long been a loyal oil and gas powerhouse to Washington, and has a significant lobby on Capitol Hill. Previously it was instrumental in the West's pursuit of regime change in Syria, after which Assad was toppled and al-Qaeda linked Jolani came to power. It will likely 'accept' Bibi's 'apology' and move on hosting major US military and intelligence assets on its soil.

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Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bitcoin-for-families-show/id1806502598

Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/IHJq3wNzPnPncfKm2gip

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6dSeyOsMMZqy7JjkXJrCn5?si=6970356214804957

YouTube: https://youtu.be/_jk_1LSH6rI

Rumble: https://rumble.com/v6ziik2-building-a-family-bitcoin-business-pablo-and-michael-panties-for-bitcoin-02.html

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House GOP leadership seems unlikely to bring the chamber into session at all this week - -shutdown week. https://t.co/UlGyFZsavY

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1972685326121304327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The White House, meanwhile, tells https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/29/congress/leavitt-democrats-reasonable-00584410

that President Trump will push congressional Democrats to back a House-passed stopgap bill during an Oval Office sitdown Monday, less than 48 hours before the shutdown.

"Let me be very clear about the president and the White House’s position: All we are asking for is a common-sense, clean funding resolution, a continuing resolution to keep the government open," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a Monday interview on Fox News. "The president is giving Democrat leadership one last chance to be reasonable, to come to the White House today to try to talk about this," she added.

Yet, according to Sherman, and https://polymarket.com/event/us-government-shutdown-by-october-1

, a shutdown is in the cards.

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/house-senate-leaders-in-shutdown-standoff-ahead-of-meeting-with-trump-5921456

(emphasis ours),

Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are digging their heels in ahead of a critical meeting with President Donald Trump to avoid a potential government shutdown this week, each pinning the blame for any negotiations that fail tomorrow on the opposing party.

Trump agreed to meet with Senate and House leaders of both parties on Sept. 29 to hopefully broker a deal to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded until a long-term spending bill can be passed.

Democrats say that Republicans need to agree to extend certain tax subsidies for the Affordable Care Act Marketplace—also known as Obamacare—that were passed in 2021 as part of the American Rescue Plan and are set to expire at the end of the year.

Republicans are countering by saying the tax subsidy discussion can occur after passing a continuing resolution to keep the government afloat in the short term, saying the Affordable Care Act is beset by “waste, fraud, and abuse.”

A government shutdown is “totally up to the Democrats,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sept. 27.

“The ball is in their court,” he said. “So this decision, in my judgment, at this point in time, is up to a handful of Democrats. We need eight Democrats to pass it through the Senate, something that 13 times, when the Democrats had the majority over the last four years and President [Joe] Biden was in the White House, Republicans helped Democrats do.”

He said the tax credits don’t expire until the end of the year and that Democrats need to “release the hostage” on refusing to approve the continuing resolution before having that conversation on health care.

“That particular program is desperately in need of reform. It’s fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse, so we are going to have to have reforms if we take action there,” Thune said. “But I think there’s potentially a path forward.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said his coalition has been pushing for a meeting and “real negotiation” with Trump present, saying “we need the president as part of it.”

“We need Speaker Johnson; let the four leaders and the president sit down,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sept. 28, referring to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and the meeting with Trump scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sept. 29.

Schumer said the Democrats are focused on health care.

“Rural hospitals are closing. People are going to get notices of $4,000-a-year increase in their premiums. So our job is to represent the people of America,” he said. “So far, they’ve stonewalled and said we’re not discussing any of that, and we'll see if it changes.”

Johnson said Trump is always open to talks but wants to “operate in good faith, so he decided to bring us all in.”

“He wants to talk with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and just try to convince them to follow common sense and do what’s right by the American people,” Johnson told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sept. 28. “It’s important to point out the only thing we are trying to do is buy a little time.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said in a statement that negotiations would hinge on “find[ing] a path forward to actually fix the health care system that Republicans have broken for the good of everyone.” He was referring to the expiring tax credits and cuts to Medicaid included in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this year.

Johnson called the statement “absolutely absurd.”

“The [topic of] Obamacare subsidies is a policy debate that has to be determined by the end of the year, Dec. 31,” Johnson said. “Not right now, while we’re simply trying to keep the government open so we can have all these debates.”

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Johnson about health care experts who have said that Americans’ premiums could increase by as much as 75 percent—as early as October—if the Obamacare subsidies expire without extension, and pressed the House leader if he’s “worried at all that those people might blame Republicans for those health care costs, for the insurance costs going up.”

“No, they’re not being truthful about that,” Johnson said. “The program doesn’t expire until the end of December, so we have time to have all those discussions and debates.”

Lawrence Wilson contributed to this report.

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Authored by https://headlineusa.com/author/lcornelio

,

Embattled formerhttps://headlineusa.com/tag/cia

boasted on MSNBC over the weekend that he investigated himself and found no wrongdoing.

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Brennan made the claims on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBBRuM5snn0

The Weekend in response to legacy media reports falsely claiming that DNI Tulsi Gabbard may have hampered the criminal case against him after she revoked the security clearances of potential witnesses.

“I don’t see any case against me. I have looked back on all of my actions and decisions, and with John Durham, the special counsel, and others that have looked at what we did — they were certainly consistent with our legal authorities and with the law,” Brennan said.

His remarks quickly circulated online, with critics mocking him for seemingly acting as his own judge and jury. In a sarcastic X post that garnered more than one million views, popular page Western Lensman wrote, “Well, that settles it then.”

John Brennan says after a thorough review of his own actions, he’s concluded that “I just don’t see any case against me."

Well, that settles it then. https://t.co/9ycyn7i93G

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1971986599262195932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Another account replied that Brennan “literally became the meme,” sharing an image captioned: “We’ve investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.”

A third page added, “‘After careful consideration and examination of the evidence and lack thereof, I hereby find myself… Not guilty.’”

John Brennan literally did the meme. https://t.co/IVFcsCiY8U

— Emergent Perspective (@_emergent_) https://twitter.com/_emergent_/status/1972017335067435394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Brennan’s comments come as he faces a criminal investigation into his role in promoting the debunked conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.

The probe was opened at the referral of current CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who found that Brennan may have lied to Congress about the origins of the 2016 investigation into Russian meddling and the role the Steele Dossier played.

Brennan had long insisted the dossier played only a minor role, but newly declassified documents showed otherwise.

Files previously reported by Headline USA suggest the Obama administration systematically bypassed procedures in a rushed effort to paint Trump as a Russian asset following his election. According to Gabbard, this was carried out at the direction of then-President Barack Obama.

Legacy media https://www.axios.com/2025/09/24/tulsi-gabbard-undermines-probe-trump-russia

that Gabbard’s actions may have stalled Brennan’s potential prosecution by making key witnesses less willing to participate. Those reports omit, however, that the DOJ can still compel their testimony through subpoenas.

Brennan himself acknowledged this during his MSNBC interview.

“Individuals who used to work in the government, even if their security clearances were revoked, they could be subpoenaed. They could be called to provide testimony in support of whatever allegations they have. I just – I don’t see a case there,” he stated.

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On Sunday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth officially deployed the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, to https://www.zerohedge.com/political/assets-mobilizing-counter-radical-lefts-campaign-terrorism-against-ice-agents-facilities

" ... and attacks have intensified this month.

Hegseth wrote in a memo, "This memorandum further implements the President's directive. 200 members of the Oregon National Guard will be called into Federal service immediately as part of the previously authorized call."

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Then followed the suit by Democrats in Oregon, which named President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and the Department of Defense, as well as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security, as defendants. The suit asked the federal court in Portland to halt Trump's deployment of troops and declare it unlawful.

NBC News quoted White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson as saying that Trump's actions were "lawful" and that they would "make Portland safer."

"President Trump is using his lawful authority to direct the National Guard to protect federal assets and personnel in Portland following months of violent riots where officers have been assaulted and doxxed by left-wing rioters," Jackson explained.

🚨 JUST IN: A resident near ICE Portland PRAISES President Trump for sending reinforcements to the city

“I am SO happy that President Trump is deploying the National Guard. We have been asking for help for months!”

REAL AMERICANS are BEGGING for this! https://t.co/Kxj1u45OfL

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1972447841470837035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Overnight, at least one cell of the https://www.zerohedge.com/political/antifa-designated-domestic-terror-group-white-house-declares-war-radical-leftist-groups

attempted to disrupt operations at the ICE facility in Portland.

BREAKING - Antifa agitators are now being drug into the Portland ICE facility as if they were rag dolls.https://t.co/C7kPKLpPAe

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) https://twitter.com/Rightanglenews/status/1972500592061972916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

In a shocking display of senseless violence, a black man was viciously assaulted and beaten to the ground by a mob of Antifa militants during a chaotic riot outside an ICE detention facility in Portland. https://t.co/wW6ihvOSeP

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1972562793812611195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

NEW: As the sun sets, hundreds of far-left activists remain outside the Portland ICE building. More Antifa militants dressed in black bloc are now showing up. This is when the mayhem and violence usually escalates.

Officers are trying to clear the driveway. https://twitter.com/choeshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

— FRONTLINES (@FrontlinesTPUSA) https://twitter.com/FrontlinesTPUSA/status/1972491661419876626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Earlier, leftist Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek was spotted leading the "50501" movement, part of the Democratic Party's protest industrial complex funded by dark-money NGOs and leftist billionaires. These rogue NGOs orchestrated and spread chaos nationwide earlier this year and throughout the summer via color revolution-style operations, with many of the protests/riots directed at Trump and Elon Musk.

Trump, please do something about this gay shit. Signed, a reasonable lesbian. https://t.co/jme5TxPN1a

— Heidi (@HeidiBriones) https://twitter.com/HeidiBriones/status/1972456667825795166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Democrats are mobilizing their protest industrial complex, funded by leftist billionaires and even some foreign entities, to counter the Trump administration and 'America First' agenda. Many of these dark networks are now under federal investigation as the White House takes an all-of-government approach to counter political violence emanating from Democrats.

Last week, a New York Times report revealed that Soros' Open Society Foundation funneled https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/new-report-reveals-soros-open-society-funneled-80-million-pro-terror-groups

Neville Roy Singham is also under investigation for financing chaos, as Antifa and other radical left groups openly declare war on Trump.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/planning-war-against-fascists-socialist-rifle-association-boasts-10000-members

This isn't your parents' Democratic Party; it's an elitist political machine that bankrolls organized violence, hate, and socialism/Marxism, with the ultimate aim of overthrowing Trump and dismantling the nation for a socialist reconstruction. If that reconstruction is blocked, the fallback goal is the total destruction of the West. This is civil terrorism, and what we are witnessing now is the rise of https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-directs-task-force-counter-rogue-ngos-leftist-groups-sowing-chaos

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