The Crime Crisis In America (How Technology Fixes It)
a16z· 2025-12-17 15:45
If you don't enforce crime, what you end up is with lost generations. >> Yeah. If I woke up in 10 years and all we had done was put a lot of people in prison. It's actually double bad. >> Yeah. Well, we're throwing people away, right? Like, you know, that's the worst possible thing. So, the best thing is to say, hey, look, if you commit crimes, you're going to get caught. And then that kind of changes the societal incentives and the culture and everything else. I mean, look, if I can become a criminal and m ...
WBD tells shareholders Netflix deal is superior to Paramount offer
CNBC Television· 2025-12-17 15:45
Netflix made a compelling offer. It was heavy in cash, certainty of close, um a high termination fee. It had all and they responded to the to the operating issues that we were concerned about. Uh Peace Guy had every opportunity to deal with that broad range of issues and they chose not to.It was really, David, it wasn't really a hard choice. >> It wasn't a hard choice. No, >> not at the end.It was not a hard choice. ...
60 Minutes watches German military recruits in basic training #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-12-17 15:42
This past month, we were invited by the Bundesphere, the German military, to observe basic training at the Müster Army base in northwest Germany. A squad of recruits ran punishing drills, >> honing the skills they would need to defend their position against an enemy assault. THE major in charge right here >> has been training troops since 2018.The Bundes won't reveal his name to shield his identity from hostile actors. >> So, have you seen a difference in the recruits of today versus years past. >> Yes.Um I ...
OpenAI's revenue trajectory is "unprecedented." 💰
Yahoo Finance· 2025-12-17 15:30
Open AAI is clearly one of the most, if not the most, company in the artificial intelligence space right now. The revenue trajectory for this company is staggering. It's it's unprecedented.I think what the market has become a little bit skittish around is the magnitude of investment plans that this company has laid out. They're speaking to a trillion dollar plus infrastructure buildout over the next several years. So just a really ambitious company with really strong growth that yeah is is is really importa ...
Cramer’s Stop Trading: Oracle
CNBC Television· 2025-12-17 15:24
Time for Jim and stop trading. >> Okay. If the stock gets to general to where General Mills did a 5% yield, no matter what they say, it can go higher there.That's my gospel. I want to thank David for breaking a lot of great news. To me, I'm going to say it, David.I Ellison didn't seem to have the horses. He just didn't seem to have the horses. I want to see real money. I don't see it.And as far as I'm concerned, illusory is the right word. Not unlike the illusory that be I'm beginning to see in Oracle the c ...
Fed chair candidate Waller says he will absolutely stress importance of Fed's independence to Trump
CNBC Television· 2025-12-17 15:18
Will you emphasize to the president the importance of Fed independence. >> Absolutely. I spent 20 years of my life working on central bank independence and why it was important.There's no doubt. I've got a long paper trail of this. The one thing everybody always forgets in central bank independence is there's another side of it which is accountability.There's no institution in this country that is unaccountable to the electorate. that that's not and that's pe what people often forget is that we want central ...
Warner Bros. tells shareholders to reject Paramount bid
NBC News· 2025-12-17 15:18
This is breaking news. We just learned that Warner Brothers Discovery is recommending its shareholders reject Paramount's hostile takeover bid. WBD is arguing that its plan to sell most of the media company to Netflix is a better move for its shareholders.Netflix also speaking out, welcoming this decision, saying it's a this deal is a quote superior alternative for WBD stockholders. ...
MIT professor shot dead at his Massachusetts home
NBC News· 2025-12-17 15:17
Another New England university is on edge after authorities say an MIT professor, Nuno Lorero, was shot and killed in his home in Brooklyn, Massachusetts. The death being investigated as a homicide and police have released no information about a suspect, but authorities say there seems to be no connection to the Brown shooting. ...
Trump expected to sign order to reclassify cannabis
NBC News· 2025-12-17 15:17
President Trump is expected to fasttrack a reclassification of cannabis. While this won't make it legal to smoke nationwide, it will mean for the first time at the federal level, the medical benefits of marijuana will be acknowledged and the FDA will be allowed to start studying the use of cannabis for medical purposes. Previously, cannabis was in the same drug category as heroin and LSD. ...
Torrential rain and falling temperatures in Gaza claim the life of 8-month-old baby
NBC News· 2025-12-17 15:16
Torrential rain has been sweeping across the Middle East and in the Gaza Strip. It's had deadly consequences as thousands of tents sheltering families displaced by 2 years of war have been washed away. And it looks like it could still get worse.And it's the children who are the most vulnerable. Now, medics there told Reuters that 8-month-old Rahafa Abujab died of exposure after cold water inundated the tent where she was living with her family in Hanunice in the southern part of Gaza. A spokesman for the ci ...