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DOJ Just Went After the Fed, AI Crawlers Breaking the Web & China's AI Push

DOJ Just Went After the Fed, AI Crawlers Breaking the Web & China's AI Push

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 The DOJ is investigating the Federal Reserve’s leadership, putting central bank independence under rare and intense scrutiny. This episode unpacks the AI crawler war between Google and publishers, Gemini’s rapid rise, China’s accelerating AI push, a slowing U.S. job market, and the intensifying legal battle between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.🎯 WHAT YOU’LL LEARNFed independence is the real story. A criminal probe into the Fed chair lands amid growing political pressure on rate policy.The web’s incentive structure is breaking. Bundling search and AI scraping forces publishers into a lose-lose choice.Gemini’s momentum is accelerating. Recent data suggests competitive dynamics are shifting faster than expected.AI strategies are diverging. World models, platform-owned models, and frontier labs are betting on different futures.China remains central. Chips, models, diplomacy, and industrial policy are converging into one long-term contest.Markets are cooling at the edges. Job growth is slowing and affordability politics are intensifying.🔍 TIMESTAMPS00:00 DOJ opens probe into the Federal Reserve and Powell responds03:28 AI crawler war: Cloudflare, Google, and the breaking web model05:02 Gemini gains share as ChatGPT slips06:04 OpenAI acquisition rumors and the value of visual data06:45 Copyright extraction risks and rising legal exposure09:07 Yann LeCun’s new company and the world-model bet10:39 Amazon’s Nova vs Claude and platform control tensions12:08 DeepSeek’s next model and global adoption patterns14:01 Nvidia, China, and export-control conflicts16:30 Fentanyl cooperation and why diplomacy can work18:29 Economy check: jobs slowdown and revisions19:31 Credit card APR caps and housing investor limits21:26 Paramount vs Warner Bros. Discovery escalation22:42 World Food Prize and sustainable fertilizer innovation👍 Found value? Like, comment, and share so more leaders see this.📚 SOURCES & DATA- Fed Chair Jerome Powell Warns Against Politicizing Fed: https://youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4?si=l2SizXDdyEcUQcIZ- Cloudflare CEO Slams Google Web Monopoly: https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-matthew-prince-cloudflare/- AI Crawlers Taking Website Data: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-openai-google-perplexity-microsoft-mistral-crawling-web-referrals-cloudflare-2026-1- Google Gemini Gains Market Share ChatGPT Declines: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-gemini-gains-share-as-chatgpt-declines-in-similarweb-data/564690/- Microsoft 2025 AI Adoption Report: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/ai-economy-institute/reports/global-ai-adoption-2025/- AI Models Extract Copyrighted Books Illegally: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671- AI World Models No Hallucinations: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-keep-learning-after-training-research/- US - China AI Chips Gamble: https://youtu.be/UphXmFOYUU8- DeepSeek Raises Questions: https://youtu.be/vvX5e9rtnIc- AI Godfather Calls Out Meta Boss: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/ai-godfather-calls-meta-ai-boss-alexander-wang-inexperienced-.html- OpenAI Pinterest Acquisition: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/openai-may-buy-pinterest-and-it-could-change-how-we-search-shop-and-scroll- Nvidia China H200 Chip Sales Blocked Again: https://thein.fo/49oJQce- China Fentanyl Crackdown Cuts US Overdoses 34%: https://www.axios.com/2026/01/09/china-fentanyl-crackdown-overdose-deaths- Banks Revolt Trump Pushes 10% Credit Card Cap: https://apnews.com/article/banks-trump-jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-credit-cards-bny-b4f31993a64c31687c91f17beab0a98a- BLS December 2025 Jobs Report: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf- Paramount Skydance Sue Warner Bros Discovery: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/paramount-skydance-sues-warner-bros-discovery-netflix-deal-1236629324/- World Food Prize 2025 Crop Innovation: https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/20202025_laureates/2025_hungria/ Full list: https://youtu.be/5UMrTJxBwU0👇 SUBSCRIBE FOR SHARP INSIGHTS 🔔YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHrhuWbpYnUwrR75H2Ip4yQSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/44me6PABSQ0k0GfphM70auApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-revenue/id1707461473Web: https://goodrevenue.io/goodrevenueFollow Neeta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neetabidwai/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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