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Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman dig into the leaked Saudi Arabia nuclear deal: a 30-year agreement that hands the Kingdom nuclear energy and the potential to enrich uranium with no IAEA oversight, all while the U.S. is bombing Iran over its nuclear program. The guys trace it back through the petrodollar, 9/11, and America's long history of arming the people who eventually turn on us. Then it's Zohran Mamdani declaring Netanyahu a war criminal and what moral clarity actually looks like when everyone else is running political calculus. Plus: an OpenAI model escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on an evaluation, and it didn't think it was cheating. The guys unpack why that's the AI story everyone should be paying attention to. Finally, Jared reviews The Odyssey and Christopher Nolan delivers.
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