talk about it all with musk biographer walter isaacson. stay tuned.gs that keep this world turning. it's the go-tos that keep us going. the places we cheer. trust. hang out. and check in. they all choose the advanced network solutions and round the clock partnership from comcast business. powering more businesses than anyone. powering possibilities. ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com. >>> welcome back to "squawk box." futures about where they've been for most of the pre-market session. dow is also weaker off about 86, but the nasdaq, a solid s&p up a little, and dow, s&p and nasdaq off their fifth straight positive week with bank earnings kicking off last friday. financials saw best day since back

someone who's obsessed with crypto currency, people who were carrying copies of walter isaacson's elonk biography. we had people very knowledgeable of tesla, "x," and share prices. elon musk is spectacle, right? everything he does is breath lassly covered. he obviously has an enormous amount of power. and elon took his media profile and got people like me to cover it and the point is to take media attention and put it on pennsylvania, a state elon musk thinks is essential for saving democracy across the globe. >> first of all, how was he on the stump? he's not a political animal. this was his first big solo event. was he convincing, was he comfortable? what was it like? >> he's not a great public speaker. what i will admit the production value and optics of the whole thing, if you close your eyes you might think this guy was running for president of the united states. he walked out to "only in america" a song that's been at ted cruz rallies or a trump rallies for a long time. there was a moment he invited a cute kid on stage and signed his hats. he was clearly entertained, almost smitt

type of person, someone who is obsessed with crypto currency and people carrying carpets of walter isaacson's autobiography and people who had very detailed knowledge of space x and tesla share prices. the point here of this event from elon musk's perspective is sort of deploying the spectacle, elon musk is a spectacle, right? everything he does is breathlessly covered yet beasley has an enormous amount of power and he basically took his enormous media profile and got people like me to show up got us to cover it and the point there was to take his ability to capture media attention and put it on pennsylvania which is the state that he thinks is essential for saving democracy across the globe. >> can you talk a little bit about first of all how will was he on the stump? this is not what he does, this is his first big solo event, was he convincing or comfortable? what was it like? >> he's not a great public speaker he would probably admit that what i was struck though as you look at the vigils there, the production value and the optics of the whole thing if you close your eyes you might think t

dallying with that is alarming he has a history of 22 years of working with putin as we know from walter isaacson'sntensification that bill browder reminds us about since the invasion is alarming you have national security in the hands of a private business person that's what scares us. a $2 billion contract to starlink, you know, to spacex to run starlink. >> you heard jeff there calling it alarming and potentially providing favors as well also take into account president trump who if re-elected has suggested he would bring elon musk into the u.s. government. your reaction there? >> i find the whole thing scary and distasteful. it used to be that republicans were tough on russia, and all of a sudden, we have this version of the republican party that is friendly with russia, and donald trump has made all sorts of overtures toward putin and one of his biggest supporters out on the campaign trail, offering people money to register to vote has had similar types of relationships with putin it is very troubling for me, somebody who spent my entire life trying to do whatever i can to contain putin, inclu

talking to walter isaacson earlier. scaling.oser to bigger and bigger profit margins. in the context of a.i. the power consumed and number of chips that need to be bought, and the processing that's taking place it does not necessarily seem that the more you add the bigger the profits get? >> yeah. there's no evidence that where we get there, it's a little like building a giant skyscraper. an enormous amount of work to get done before you can really generate revenues that can overcome that. again, a huge commute power for the research more people who use it including more commute power third piece, wrote about it yesterday, my colleague at axios incredible talent push right now. to get researchers you need. compete with elon musk, compete with anthropic, et cetera. that costs an insane amount of money. much more than any other start-up dealt with. >> how do you look at what's happened at openai a number if not many, many of the early founders that carpeted at the company at the outset no longer there. it does look like greg brock

also thinking talking to walter isaacson last week focused on xai, gone so fast so far so quickly. >>g in the x twitter fire hose and that training data is invaluable and nobody else has that. so elon's got something that be really meaningful not just to make the x platform better but from an a.i. platform what can he do? a huge opportunity for the team at xai. they don't talk a lot about it. but it's huge and hard to figure out winners and losers and how behavior changes. it's been a couple of years but still so, so early. >> all right. rich, thank you. as always. >> thanks. >> when we come back a lot more right here on "squawk box." talking about the state of economy off friday's hot jobs report with less than 30 days to go before the presidential election. don't go anywhere. we're coming right back and you're watching "squawk box" on cnbc. (vo) time to move? make it easy with opendoor. sell your home in any season, for any reason. [vampire hiss] (vo) start your move at opendoor.com. >>> welcome back to "squawk." a few economic stories to get into with our next guest including frida

stephanie ruhle, molly jong-fast and lauren leader and professor of history at tulane university walter isaacson up from the previous month, a blockbuster? >> it's an awesome number. there's no way you can disagree with it being a great number. and the fact we've seen previous. months revised upwards. this is a great number all around. you cannot argue that. this is coming after we just had this rate cut. the number we want to think about in the next month or two, what this number doesn't account for is hurricane helene. when we normally see natural disasters, we see them in cities that can normally rebuild quickly. this thing is so fast and has gone to so many rural areas, we don't know how many people will be displaced for so long. this is an awesome number, but this is something i'm thinking about. >> let's bring in andrew ross sorkin. andrew, good morning. let's get your reaction to this jobs number and what it tells you about the state of theist economy. >> i think it's a goldilocks number. i think it says two things. one is, all the numbers -- look, one of the conundrums is we look back at