In this charged episode of Inside BASELINE, we explore a tech-driven political battleground where billionaires, AI, and Big Tech collide with the potential return of Trump. From Elon Musk’s xAI and its supercomputing ambitions to Google’s Gemini and Apple’s quiet power plays, this episode unpacks how the giants of Silicon Valley are aligning—or bracing—for a potential Trump administration. With insider insights on political influence, the AI arms race, and billionaires’ complex loyalties, this is the ultimate look at what’s at stake for tech if MAGA rises again.

(00:00) Intro

(00:55) Republican Party MAGA rally Madison Square Garden

(01:53) Intensity of political messaging

(02:08) Alignment of political parties, billionaires and AI

(02:18) Elon Musk

(03:11) Emergence of republican politics on X

(03:28) Grok xAI

(04:19) xAI and Nvidia relationship

(04:40) Largest AI supercomputer Colossus

(05:00) How generative AI and Natural Language Processing works

(05:31) Why AI training is so expensive

(05:41) Prediction on OpenAI GPT5

(06:05) Synthetic data training

(06:18) Why AI training is the new arms race

(08:06) OpenAI raise $6.6Bn

(08:24) Nvidia market capital

(08:27) PwC forecast AI to contribute $15.7Tn

(08:50) Grok in healthcare and radiology

(10:36) The utopia AI application human longevity

(11:00) Elon Musk and Donald Trump

(11:31) ELON ELON ELON ELON

(11:50) The fragility and isolation of the billionaire

(12:24) Jeff Bezos

(13:35) Amazon Anthropic

(14:10) What that capital will be used for

(14:32) Amazon AWS Generative AI

(15:20) Washington post endorsement

(15:58) Elon Musk speaks at MSG Rally

(16:16) Joe Rogan and Elon Musk relationship

(16:37) JRE 1 million views per hour

(17:30) The joy of America and American people

(18:38) Google Gemini and NotebookLM

(19:05) The NotebookLM 2 person podcast

(19:20) Did google hide the Joe Rogan Donald Trump podcast?

(20:00) Post search engine world

(20:19) Spotify JRE

(20:35) Is PerplexityAI the new Google?

(21:04) Sundar Pichai and Donald Trump at Macdonalds

(21:25) Kier Starmer working person

(22:20) Google generate 25% of their code with AI

(23:22) Tim Cook

(23:36) The brilliance of Apple technology

(24:11) Tim Cook Donald Trump

(24:59) Donald Trump praises Tim Cook beyond Steve Jobs

(25:48) Elon doesn’t want to build a smartphone

(26:03) Meta and Llama 3.1 AI LLM

(26:45) Zuckerberg 2020 election

(27:06) Mark Zuckerberg and AI success

(27:24) The US election and artificial intelligence

(27:47) Popularism, Inspiration and excitement

(28:31) DOGE Department of Government Efficiency

(28:45) xAI and Grok Utopia or dystopia

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