it is a huge investigation done by bloomberg businessweek.erg technology." ♪ caroline: today, we bring you the latest from exclusive bloomberg businessweek interview with sam altman. he discusses his infamous firing, how he runs openai now, his plans for the trump presidency, and relentless pursuit of agi. mark milian is part of a deeply reported out q&a. it starts with the key moments. sam altman discussing when he started thinking developing agi. what was the jaw-dropping moment for you? >> i think the thing that surprised me the most is when he is given the opportunity to talk about your big ambitions, what you want to solve. he talks about fusion energy, that is the one thing. obviously, he is focused on creating super intelligent supercomputers and artificial general intelligence and all of these wacky ideas. he has this big investment in fusion energy which is kind of a scary concept to a lot of people and also, is it even going to work? has science proven fusion energy is going to solve all of our energy shortage issues? energy is a bi

writing in businessweek, saul sanders noted authorities in germany are worried about, i'm quoting, vice outpourings of youth and radicals who accused the us of seeking world domination. according to the guardian, the problems related to india policy disagreement in which the u.s. is on the opposite side from europe on almost every important topic in right before the speech in the days before a hundred thousand demonstrators jammed hyde protesting american policy. a member of reagan's national security council's and a major soviet scholar, richard pipes, cogently explained to the audience problem that reagan faced in europe as the english elite regarded reagan as a dangerous simpleton simpleton. the anti-gay fear of nuclear war was a major problem for reagan. the united states as well. michael barone mouthed it in the washington post and a great many americans and europeans believe that reagan is significantly more likely in his predecessors to get us into a nuclear war. a washington post poll found that by a 3 to 1 margin, american people supported a nuclear. what that what we have not

i fi dot i and max chafkin joins us, bloomberg businessweek journalist and co-host of the podcast elonusk. okay, max, it is bloomberg reporting. explain this. despite a denial from bytedance, nothing from musk. could he actually buy tiktok? >> well, we should say these are this is chinese officials. this is not bytedance necessarily doing the talking. you could kind of understand why they might be talking about this. this ban is coming down the pipe unless the supreme court intervenes, which it doesn't appear they will. and tiktok is a strategic asset to the chinese government. so if they're trying to preserve this, you know, a little bit of potential influence anyway that they have in the united states, you know, who better than elon musk? and when you start thinking about who the other potential acquirers here, who would be acceptable to the chinese government and acceptable to the trump administration, it's sort of hard to think of a lot of other candidates. elon musk, you know, for better or worse. and he gets criticized a lot by both democrats and republicans, has a very, very goo

bloomberg businessweek journalist and co-host of the elan inc podcast. so he's going to be so, so busy this year. and former republican congressman david jolly of florida. all right, david, i turn to you first because the wall street journal editorial board published this. i want to have it exactly right. trump pardons the january 6th cop beaters. law and orders back the blue. what happened to the gop? any idea? that's the wall street. >> journal, right? right. and i think it goes deeper than that. if you listen to donald trump's conversation with sean hannity. >> and sean was trying. >> he was trying. >> he was. >> and. >> i think we have to be careful with. >> our words. >> but millions of americans tonight think that donald trump is a demented, unwell, sick person who is dangerous to the constitution, dangerous to the country, and should not be president of the united states. and they don't do that out of fear mongering. they do that because in his first administration, he ultimately excited the violent mob to go to the capitol. after leaving office,

businessweek. thank you. i'd just like to thank commissioner lopez for serving as president for the last year. did a great job and also wish the same great job and try to match his great job by commissioner trasvina. congratulations you ma'am. >> thank you. is any commissioner commissioner vice president lopez and and vice president eppler. >> yeah. i just wanted to thank my fellow commissioners for for the support and service in the last year. it was it was enjoyable for me to to serve in that capacity. and i just want to state that this this body is in its current composition. i think we have you know, the gift of of members who apply, you know, individual lenses to the matters before us. but we we share a commitment to to service and the role of government and and the the openness and accessibility that that i think belongs in in this in this room for for our work. and i really want to thank also ms.. rosenberg and and alec for four for their support this year. of course ms.. huber as well. and look forwar

"businessweek" which is not a democratic publication said it was "completely irresponsible and would result in inflationary pressures which would destroy this nation." our proposals are very sound and carefully considered to stimulate jobs, to improve the industrial complex of these country, to create tools for american workers and at the same time would be anti-inflationary in nature. it would at 9 million new jobs, control inflation, plan for the future with an energy policy as a foundation is our plan for the years ahead. >> do you have a follow-up question? >> yes. mr. president, you mentioned the creation of 9 million new jobs. at the same time, the unemployment rate still hangs high, as does the inflation rate. i wonder -- can you tell us what additional policies you would pursue in a second administration in order to try to bring down that inflation rate? and would it be active leadership to tell the american people they will have to sacrifice to adopt a leaner lifestyle for some time to come? president carter: we have demanded that the american people sacrifice and they have

"businessweek," which is not a democratic publication, said it was "completely irresponsible and would result in inflationary pressures which would destroy this nation." our proposals are very sound and carefully considered to stimulate jobs, to improve the industrial complex of these country, to create tools for american workers, and at the same time would be anti-inflationary in nature. it would at 9 million new jobs, control inflation, plan for the future with an energy policy as a foundation is our plan for the years ahead. >> do you have a follow-up question? >> yes. mr. president, you mentioned the creation of 9 million new jobs. at the same time, the unemployment rate still hangs high, as does the inflation rate. i wonder -- can you tell us what additional policies you would pursue in a second administration in order to try to bring down that inflation rate? and would it be active -- would it be an act of leadership to tell the american people they will have to sacrifice to adopt a leaner lifestyle for some time to come? president carter: we have demanded that the american peopl