The Rudy Giuliani Show: Thursday, February 26, 2026
The Rudy Giuliani Show dissects U.S.-Iran tensions, where Newsweek’s claims of nuclear progress clash with IAEA reports of 60% uranium enrichment and Iran’s stockpiles, while MEK attacks on Tehran’s leadership spark debates over ethnic autonomy. Giuliani ties Cuba’s February 25th speedboat killings—targeting U.S. citizens—to Raul Castro’s 1996 Brothers to the Rescue atrocities, condemning Hollywood’s communist alliances. Meanwhile, AI-driven profits like NVIDIA’s $43B net income fuel hedge fund bubble fears, raising questions about CEO Jensen Huang’s China ties and OpenAI’s $30B pivot. The episode warns of unchecked tech power, comparing AI to dual-use weapons like the F-22, sold to Israel amid geopolitical risks. [Automatically generated summary]
This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is the Rudy Giuliani show on Lindell TV.
Behind me is Tehran in Persia.
Iran, Persia, might again be named Persia.
Who knows?
I doubt it, though.
I'll tell you why.
I'm going to tell you why in a moment.
So it's hard to read.
It's hard to read because if you take a page, which I thought I had gotten, but maybe I haven't.
Can we see if there's anything in the printer in one of the printers?
One news source said that the talks today involving the Americans, President Trump's envoys and the Iranians left some hope.
And the other said they were terrible.
It's hard to say.
It's hard to say.
It's hard to say which is correct, right?
I would say, judging, here it is.
I don't know if you can see this, but this is just a Google printout.
Third round of U.S. talks.
Iran talks, raps with progress, says Newsweek.
Then we go down a little further.
Then we go down a little further.
Iran says good progress in U.S. talks.
Next one.
This one is from a, that was the Douglas County Sentinel.
Now, this is, I think, Al Jazeera, I believe.
No, Iran international.com.
Iran prepares for potential U.S. war as nuclear talks falter.
Talks talk, talks, raps with progress.
Newsweek.
Iranian news talks falter.
Then the Palestinian Chronicle, Iran signals deal within reach.
Geneva nuclear talks.
And then another DW Iran, US-Iran nuclear talks open in Geneva amid military posturing.
Or Shafak.com, US-Iran talks begin.
This was the beginning under shadow of a very indefinite conclusion.
So I don't know.
Where we are.
I do know Senator Ted Cruz put out on X, when the Ayatollah chants, death to America, he means it.
He's building weapons to try to make that threat real.
The end of the Iranian regime would immeasurably improve the safety and security of Americans.
Jennifer Jacobs was the one, I guess, who retweeted that.
And here's her tweet.
I'm just giving you the range of opinion here.
An excellent picture, by the way, of Marco.
I'll show it to you.
Iran is clearly, Iran is clearly, they are headed in the pathway to one day being able to develop weapons that could reach the continental United States, says Secretary Rubio.
He said, Iran trying to achieve intercontinental ballistic missiles and have been increasing the range of the missiles they are developing.
Here's the picture of Marco that I was talking about.
I think that's an exceptionally good picture of a great Secretary of State.
He certainly is getting credit as a great Secretary of State.
And, you know, it really is not him.
He seems kind of, for a politician, Marco seems kind of not much of a self-promoter, right?
You don't see him.
He doesn't need to be with a great boss like Trump, who, you know, is terrific to both him and to Vance, right?
Right.
But that's what it means to be a good leader.
You have to give your people credit for what they do.
So where are we?
And the president is getting all kinds of advice.
I don't know if he wants it.
Conservative commenter, everyone know Mark Levin, of course, good, great guy, a close ally of President Trump.
And he is urging that they are as weak as they can be, and it is time to take them out, to get rid of the Ayatollah.
As you know, I agree with that.
And Cruz says the same thing.
There's no need to check with Lindsey Graham.
We know where he is, right?
So talks were held at the Omani residence.
That's the Oman's foreign ministry.
Oman says negotiators showed unprecedented openness to new ideas.
I do not believe that's true.
Al-Busadi added that technical level talks are scheduled to continue next week in Vienna, signaling that the diplomatic track is still open.
Well, last time we bombed them in Israel, the diplomatic track was ongoing.
The U.S. has deployed its largest military buildup in the Middle East since 2003, including two aircraft carriers and thousands of troops.
That is well in excess, by the way, of 10,000.
Trump says diplomacy is his preference, but of course he always adds that, that there might be a limited strike or there might be a strike.
He hasn't clearly outlined what concessions he's demanding or why military action is needed now.
This is Newsweek.
Very, very anti-Trump, very anti-American.
And if you can be sort of pro Anything that hurts America.
Iran's foreign minister says the country will under no circumstances ever develop a nuclear weapon.
I mean, how do you even print that?
Why are they enriching the 60%?
You only need 2% or 3%.
If you're not going to have a nuclear weapon, there's no country in the world that's at 60% that doesn't have a nuclear weapon.
And that's a map of our current.
I mean, this means you are a tool, Newsweek, of the Iranian terrorists.
But you've been a tool of the communists, too, and you're a tool of the crooked Democratic Party, and you are a disgraceful piece of crap.
Senior U.S. military officials have warned that it might be a long conflict.
They always warn of that.
They have to.
They have to protect their backsides.
Of course.
Of course, there could be a long conflict, or it could be very short.
Israel urges any deal to include limits on Israel's missiles and regional proxies.
Well, they refuse to have any limitations on their proxies, and they refuse to have any limitations other than some vague idea that they're not going to enrich and will be allowed to inspect.
We've been through that before.
That's the one that Trump did away with last time he was president.
It'd be kind of crazy if he signed it now after having done away with it the last time he was president.
So you'd have to be able to read between the lines.
You'd have to read between the lines to figure out where the heck we are.
Where we are is we've got the biggest military, biggest military deployment that we've had since 2003.
Do we have a map, Ted, that we can show this where they're all sitting right now?
Yeah, the map that we.
So I don't know how well you can see all that, but part of the reason is there's so many ships there.
Looks like there's a traffic jam of ships.
Correct, Ted?
I mean, just in the Mediterranean alone is quite a fleet.
The USS Winston Churchill, the USS Bainbridge, the USS Mahan, the USS Gerald Ford, which is the most lethal warship in the world, the USS Roosevelt, the Berkeley, and that's just in the Mediterranean, pointing toward the western part of Iran that would easily cover Tehran and take it out.
There are a couple of ships in the Red Sea, which is kind of strange because you can get blocked in there, but you still can shoot from it.
It looks like the USS Canberra and possibly two other ships.
And toward the bottom of it, possibly not in but out of the Red Sea, is the USS Santa Barbara.
And then you can see over by the Persian Gulf, if you're near Iran, Arabian Sea, if you're near Saudi Arabia, or the Indian Ocean if you're way down south.
It could be any one of those three places.
It's all the same.
It's all the same ocean.
And there you've got a fighting force that could wipe out most countries in the world.
I do not believe they are there just to kind of show off.
I doubt it.
And we'll have to see how it all progresses.
They are now raising the question: well, there really is no good reason to do this because, according to all of the people that never knew that Iran was enriching uranium and had to be told by the MEK, you know that, right?
You know that the MEK, the dissident group that they all, that all of the intellectuals and the elite oppose, which is why they're the one that should be leading Iran.
It was the MEK in 2003 that first revealed that there was nuclear enrichment in Iran.
It's probably one of the reasons why they hate it by all the experts who were fooled.
But having been fooled, they didn't turn around, most of them, and say, my God, we've got to be really careful of them.
What they did was cave into Iran year after year after year.
I've never seen a dictatorship like this do so much damage and not get checked.
I don't understand it.
I've never understood it.
I've never understood why Ronald Reagan didn't take them out.
They have consistently killed Americans and they consistently taunt us with more and more killings.
The Ayatollah, the first one and the second one, almost never concludes the Friday prayer without deaths to Israel, deaths to America, and deaths to the MEK.
In case you want to know, when I'm talking about the MEK, I'm talking about the dissident group that is demonized by the left and by the establishment, largely because it can be enormously effective in destroying Iran.
The best answer to how effective they are is the Ayatollah has on several occasions listed them as his most lethal enemy and the one that he's afraid of the most.
They are by far the group he has killed the most.
They have at least 120,000 martyrs over 46 years, including the lion's share of the people who were killed recently.
And just on Monday, they launched an attack on the Ayatollah's residence and they lost 30 people.
The others launched the attack, did some damage, destroyed one of the IRGC bunkers that they used to protect the Ayatollah.
It isn't just the IT.
It's a very, very big complex in the middle of Tehran, heavily guarded.
They think altogether there may be 8,000 kinds of security around.
And they don't know how many they killed.
They know that it was a large number.
We'll have more details on that on the 8 o'clock show and possibly in a few minutes when we have our guest on.
But that concluded last night, and the MEK retreated to their headquarters.
But what it shows you, and it's not reported here, is that there is an organization behind this.
And the organization can fight, and the organization can be enormously effective.
And it is an organization that our enemy fears.
Forget the Sissis here and the people who coddle Iran and the communists and the people who like Islamic terrorism and the Clinton, I mean, the Obama people who gave them more money than any nation on earth or the Biden people who continued to do that.
I don't know what's wrong with them.
I don't know how warped they are.
I do know their judgment on this should not be followed because it'll just lead to more deaths and more destruction by this Ayatollah that they are in love with, in love with enough to give him money in cash.
There is a big debate right now as to whether Iran, since they were blown out, have enhanced their nuclear program.
I want to show you how the left wing and the Iranian propaganda works here, which includes the phony baby shop.
When we hit Iran and we announced that we took out all of their nuclear capacity, every left-wing idiot said we didn't.
Remember that, Ted, right?
We left a lot behind.
They're now saying that Trump has no reason to attack Iran because Iran has no nuclear capacity now, and there's no evidence they're working on it.
This is Newsweek.
All the people who said he didn't take it out in the past, completely, are now saying that, don't worry, Iran has none.
Iran's Craven Regime00:15:19
So any strike would be, they're trying to set up weapons of mass destruction not being their situation.
These people are craven.
Another word for craven could be evil, because there is no doubt, says, let me get the source here, that they did retain, no matter what they're doing, the UN agency, this is, you know, communist left-wing and crooked, but the UN agency would not say this if it wasn't true.
The UN agency has, quote, the firm impression that Iran stockpiles of highly enriched uranium still wide buried at the site bombed last June.
This comes from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi.
There's no evidence they've resumed enrichment, but they still have a substantial capacity, which is a hell of a reason to bomb them.
But that is left out of all of the phony left-wing analysis.
They leave out Grossi's conclusion.
He says there's no evidence they're enriching, but he says they have plenty anyway.
They leave out the plenty anyway.
So now let's go to Professor, I think he's on the line, are you?
Firuz Dhanasghadi, who is from Case Western Reserve University, is an expert on the Middle East and on Iran.
And we've had him on before, and he was very, very erudite and very, very helpful and very popular among our loyal fans.
And so, Professor, what do you make of all this?
It's very confusing.
It sounds like with all the cross currents here, they are enriching.
They're not enriching.
They didn't retain any uranium.
They've got a lot of uranium.
It sounds like people are getting ready for what they're going to say when an attack takes place.
But we'll have to see.
I don't know for sure.
And I don't know how the talks went, but given the reaction of the Secretary of State, Cruz, and some of the others, it doesn't sound like they're going well.
Yeah.
Well, it's a pleasure to be here, Mayor.
As I've said, you're one of my American heroes.
So the situation is not that dissimilar actually to here.
There is a reality going on on the ground.
People are fighting resistance.
As you were describing, there was a heroic, heroic attack on the most sacred, the most highly protected area of the capital, Where the Supreme Leader resides and all of his thing.
And this shows, frankly, to me, is number one, the bravery, the sacrifice that the MEK members are willing to take to defend and to bring this regime down.
So this was a very, very clear message to everyone involved in Iran that there is an active force who is willing to sacrifice their lives to basically bring this down regime.
It has shaken the regime to its course.
That's why they're keeping a total 100% silence on this.
They've said nothing on the news because they know basically a fire has gone through the heart of their security.
May I just interrupt you one second?
When you said there's nothing on the news, I cannot tell you over when I saw this how angry I was.
This is a very significant.
One of the things people have been wondering is: can these protests, are these protesters just protesters making their point?
Or are these protesters, in effect, revolutionaries?
And when the protesters turn to attacking the most probably well-guarded facility in Tehran, with some effect, heavy casualties, according to the Iranian newspapers, it's got to show you we're in the revolution stage.
And the press didn't cover it.
No question.
Actually, frankly, that has significant implications for us here in America because now it's showing us that there are boots on the ground, if you will, who are willing to sacrifice their lives.
They're nowhere exactly to attack.
They have the intelligence.
Part of the intelligence was the security cameras from inside the residence of the Supreme Leader were shut down.
So we have a penetration, intelligence penetration there.
And we have troops, we have young people who are willing to take the wrong, the hard path, very much like the president, the State of Union honored the pilot who was shot during the raid of Venezuela.
So we have the troops on the ground, and therefore any attack on weakening of the regime is supplemented, if you will, with the boots on the ground.
The other part of it that, because as you mentioned, I was here with you a couple of weeks ago, is the phony or the fake alternative.
I think there's another development if you have mentioned, because again, my background is the Azeri ethnic group.
This is very important.
This is also very important and also not being covered.
And it's of equal significance and shows something you warned about.
And that's why I asked you to be on.
Something you warned about a couple of weeks ago, which I've kept in my mind and kept repeating.
On February 22nd, several parties of Irania and Kurdistan announced the formation of a political alliance.
The statement announcing the alliance explicitly stated that we considered our duty to strive for the establishment of a democratic and secular political system in Iran that guarantees the right of basically the minorities, the nation, and followers of different religions and faith and the ethnic groups.
And this was to this significant development, which is, again, another sign that the regime is falling apart because these groups are coming together and say, let's get together.
And in a very harshly worded statement, Reza Bahlabi, Shah's son, not even in the power yet, he under a pretext of kind of preserving Iran's territorial integrity, threatened that this group will be suppressed.
And very funny, because these remarks described by an over basically is supported later by the Gutz force, the IRGC commander, the General Zahrai, who basically the same day says we are going to take a decisive and fair confrontation with the Kurdistan and basically threaten him to do a massacre.
And this is contrast to what Ms. Rajavi in Berlin, remember last time I was on your show, I was in Berlin, and that basically very clearly she stated that the part of our plan, and this is a document for the past 42 years, that the ethnic groups, Kurdistan, Azeris, and so forth, they have the rights to form self-determination.
And therefore, the Shah's son statement above all serves the dictatorship, as you can see with the kind of simultaneous news from him and from the commander of the IRGC, the Ghost Force.
And it is exactly as you said, I said, he's a source of a division and in practice undermines the uprising of Iranian people.
People now are fighting the regime to bring the regime down.
And this dude, clueless, is serving the aims of the Ayatollah and obscures or obstructs and obstructs the overthrow of the regime.
These remarks are a very clear betrayal, in my opinion, that those who have fallen in this uprising, including the hundreds of murders that in Kurdistan, really dishonors them.
And this really reveals the very deeply authorian impulse of Reza Pahlavi, the Shah's son, who has immersed in an illusion of a power that he somehow, of course, he will never attain that power, that he has begun, I think, before even approaching a throne, is advocating repression of people of Kurdistan under the convenient label of separatism.
And again, this is fascinating.
It's like a history in progress that is, you know, we are witnessing, you and I are witnessing from here.
On one hand, people on the ground, they're fighting the regime.
They've attacked the most sacred, the most secure part of the capital, showing that we are brave enough, we are going to take you down.
And on the other hand, the son of Shah is trying to create a separation and creating a really obstruction to the progression of our movement.
So it also adds some more evidence to the fact that he may actually be working in some ways for the IRGC, with whom he has very, very close relationships.
There are some who question his involvement in this as just discouraging some of the when the protests were at their highest is when he came in.
And since he's been in, the protests have, in some places, dwindled a little.
And the feeling is that the regime has actually been caught putting out social messages for him, numerous.
They're the ones behind it.
It's their software and hardware that's putting out thousands and thousands of messages, making it appear as if he's going to be the leader.
And then they can say, well, what are you doing this for?
You want to go from us to a monarchy?
That's crazy.
Now he's saying, if you put me in power, we're going to have a civil war.
He's already declaring a civil war.
How do you have a civil war before you win?
Okay, imagine if Lincoln had said, after we win, we're going to go to war with Mexico or we're going to go to war with Canada or England.
I mean, you've got to win this one first.
Keep your mouth shut and win this one first.
And then see what you can work out.
And the difference is number seven of the 10-point plan is Madame Rajavi's detailed explanation of how you can create an autonomous group within Iran if necessary, but they would be part of Iran, but they would be autonomous for the Kurds, for the Azeris, for about ultimately it would be about three or four of the main groups, right?
Yep.
Again, 45% of the population.
Yeah.
And as you said, Ms. Rajavi, I think said it in Berlin, that our struggle for overthrow of the Islamic Republic, Iran, and realization of the Kurdistan, Azeris, Baluchi's rights for self-determination has been on our documents of the NCRI for over 42 years.
So at the point, I'm glad that the son of Shah is thrown in his hand.
It's number seven on this list.
Number seven.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It shows how much more mature a program this is and how much more serious it is.
Even if the Shah is in his own strange way serious, he has no plan.
And believe me, we did this with several of their people to try to make it a little easier to embrace it all.
But these are very lengthy commitments that have been thought through, as you say, 30 or 40 years, a lot of changes, and they have a lot of support from all across Iran, whether they're ethnic groups or people in other geographic regions.
So I think the Shah, hopefully this is revealing what a false effort this is.
But I understand, Dr. You got to take a flight.
So we don't want to take too much of your time.
But thank you very much.
And I'm glad you came back because you were the first to raise for our audience the possibility that if the Shah really pushed this, you could end up with some kind of break and maybe even a civil war, God forbid.
Any time.
No, thank you, Doc.
We'll get back to you.
Thank you.
Stay safe.
There's a man that can be very, very valuable to a new Iran, particularly since he is highly thought of in the Azeri community, which is a major, I mean, the two, the two major ones, maybe three that are the Azeris, the Kurds, and the Balushis.
Now, the Kurds also, I should have mentioned this with the professor, are the most militarily advanced of the groups.
Remember, the Kurds fought with us to great effect in Iraq.
Some of those Kurdish groups are part of the seven Kurdish groups that joined together to support the overthrow of the Ayatollah.
And Pahlavi accuses those Kurds of aligning with Khomeini and Saddam.
I have no idea what the hell he's talking about.
They aligned with America.
Germans for the Allies?00:03:16
It is true that a number of Iranian patriots were hoping that the Ayatollah would be destroyed in the effort against Saddam so that he could be replaced with someone who wasn't a murdering dictator.
But that would be like the Germans hoping that Hitler had lost.
And not that they took efforts to help.
Maybe some did on their own.
There may be Germans that went to work for the Allies.
I imagine there were.
But is that a bad choice?
Isn't that a better choice than this guy, who actually offered to fight for the Ayatollah and was turned down because they know what a useless Nedawili is?
I wish he would just go away.
I mean, he hasn't been around for years.
It's pathetic.
He's sort of a guy who never had a job.
The establishment loves him, of course, largely because he'll be a terrible failure.
And it would be just another one of the horrible failures we've had with Iran, where America, Britain, and others just impose upon the Iranian people their leadership.
The Pahlavi family is a creation of Britain.
It was a lower middle class family, not a royal family.
The first Shah was the most prolific murderer in the Cossack force.
And he was a brutal dictator, as was this guy's old man.
The prison the people are in was developed by, could be called the Pahavi prison.
So MEK has engaged the IRGC, the first real engagement that we know of of that kind, military engagement, not covered by the crooked Western press.
The Baby Shah has split with a significant group that has joined the dissident coalition, which is a group that can offer military support to the dissidents who have already taken military action.
The Iran missile system, they're trying to say, isn't really being enhanced.
But as the UN says, and there's no reason to doubt this because if anything, they come out on Iran's side.
So I don't think they would have said this if it isn't true, that there's plenty of uranium of a threatening level that's been hidden in Iran, which would justify taking them, taking them out.
So we'll have to see what happens as the president makes these momentous decisions over the next number of days.
I don't know how much the talks help in determining what's going to happen.
They didn't last time.
So let's take a break and we'll be right back.
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Welcome back to the Rudy Giuliani show on Lindell TV.
The Cuban government, the Cuban communists, the pathetic, destructive government of Cuba, has reared its ugly head.
And yesterday, in the area of St. Kitts and Nevis and Cuba, in that, can't tell you exactly where, but around that area, claiming that this boat had gone into Cuban waters, which, you know, given their penchant for lying and being atheistic communist murderers, one has to question.
But at any event, they killed four people on a U.S. registered speedboat, and they captured six others who had been injured.
And they were, they allege, Cuba alleged this was an infiltration.
The crew members from the boat, which is registered in Florida, opened fire on the Border Patrol when they approached them to protect themselves in defense.
The commander of the Cuban vessel was injured, so they at least did some damage, right?
The ministry said the group was made up of Cuban nationals living in the United States.
And they said they had intentions of carrying out infiltration for terrorist purposes.
They didn't illustrate what those were.
They did claim they had devices on the plane for that purpose.
Explosive devices, bulletproof vests, telescopic glasses, and camouflage uniforms.
It is not, none of that is verified.
We have no idea if any of that is true, and that seven of the men have been identified, three have not, but those identities have not been released.
The Attorney General of Florida, James Uthenmeyer, has directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to work with the federal and state and local law enforcement to see if this constituted a violation of our laws.
Marco Rubio wants these people made available to us because from what we can tell, they appear to at least have been residents of the United States.
If they're Cuban of any age at all, then they'd be lawful residents because Cubans, until very, very recently, had an exception because of the communist takeover of their island.
And therefore, if they came to the United States, they were automatically made lawful residents.
It also could be they're being described as nationals, meaning they were born in Cuba, but they could very well be citizens of the United States.
This is actually eerie because this incident took place one day after the 30th anniversary of an incident that I remember very, very well and had some involvement in.
It was the activist group, Brothers to the Rescue.
They were shot down off the straits of Florida, four killed, and they are remembered with great, great pride by the Cuban people.
I renamed a street in front of the Cuban mission for them in New York, which caused a tremendous protest by the left-wing communists, which you have found out with the election of Mandani, are far more populated in New York than people realize.
But I went with them as the mayor after the street name was done.
And we were booed.
We had things thrown at us by the Cuban diplomats who really aren't diplomats.
They like UN types.
And this may have been the UN mission.
It had to be the UN mission.
This wasn't their embassy.
We don't have an embassy with them.
So by and large, the average UN diplomat from these countries that's crooked or whatever.
Well, how about, there's a real surprise, they're crooks.
They come from crooked, murderous, homicidal regimes.
Castro used to kill gay people until he wanted support in Hollywood.
Then he had to make believe he didn't.
Castro dealt with COVID by killing people first.
It was a very, very humanitarian group, very strongly supported by Hollywood, which therefore you know that they're a communist, anti-American, inhumane, horrible group of people with no morals, no ethics.
and no common sense.
That would be the hallmark of a group that Hollywood stars would rally around.
Rally around Fidel.
Yes, he kills Jews, but not Hollywood Jews.
Yes, he kills gays, but not Hollywood gays.
Yes, he takes people with HIV and puts them in solitary confinement, but not Hollywood HIV people.
I mean, this is absurd.
It's like the idiot kids who march for Gaza and who are gay, who would be at best put in prison for 10 years and at worst, stoned.
For real.
No fooling around.
It says it right in the book that Mandani swore on to be mayor of New York, the book of numerous implications to murder called the Koran.
When you swear on that book, unless you make some very, very significant exceptions to it, you actually swear to commit murder.
But this is one day after the 30th anniversary of the killing of the brothers to the rescue.
And there's still a movement in the United States by Senator Ashley Moody and others in the Miami and Florida Cuban community to indict Raul Castro.
It was Raul Castro who was in charge at the time that the Brothers to the Rescue were killed.
They were all American citizens.
Right, and I, right.
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You have a video, sorry?
We should have.
I'm trying to remember if their bodies were ever returned.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
I don't think the barbarians returned their bodies.
Well, let's go on a different subject for a moment because it's kind of interesting.
I mean, we all, I think, have become aware of AI.
I don't think it's a big secret just for the technical geniuses, which has, depending on who you're listening to, it's going to be a great advance for the future.
Whoever is ahead in AI, many people predict wins the arms race because of all the things that can be done to create defense, all the things that can be done to create offense that's not observable by the use of very, very extended AI and these super computers.
So now, and then AI has gone up in value tremendously, and a little bit like the tech revolution.
You remember when these tech companies first started until very recently, they were considered valued at $40 billion.
I'm making this up, but something like this.
And their balance sheet was they were not making a profit.
It was all future.
It was all geared toward this is what could happen in the future.
And some of that is true with AI.
Some of that is true with AI, although not as dramatic a difference.
And there are companies that are making money, like Numidia, NVIDIA, which has just had an unbelievable quarter.
It is now considered to be the richest country in the world, richest company in the world.
On the other hand, the Wall Street Journal has this big article that a lot of the hedge fund managers and financial experts are now starting to become bearish on AI stock.
And they are beginning to, I don't know if they're shorting it, but they're beginning to unload it, think it's going to go down, think it's been overpriced, think it can't keep this up.
And then you look right on the same page and you see this article that Numidia is outperforming every possible goal that was set for it.
And they seem to be predicting they're going to do it again next year.
Last year, I'll just read you the first paragraph, which is right across from AI bears are stirring after a three years slumbo.
An obsession with artificial intelligence powered the stock market to dizzying heights.
Now, it is pushing skeptical traders to search for ways to profit from what they feel will be an inevitable shakeout.
Okay, put that in English, they believe it's going to go down, and they're looking for ways to profit from that.
Usual way you do it is short selling.
But short selling, although perfectly legal, is looked down on by many, many Wall Street people.
And the people who do it are seen as rogues.
And I'm not going to comment on that because I have a history with short sellers.
So as you read that and you go through it and you say, oh, well, you know, look, anything that goes up can go down for a while.
And there might be a that there might have been an overvaluation and then there'll be a correction.
I don't have much doubt that long term, you want to stay in that stock.
That's a solid AI company for 10 years.
You're going to make a fortune.
Will you go through a maybe.
Having also gone through the tech era where these companies were, I mean, these AI companies are nothing like Microsoft.
I mean, these were companies that were worth billions.
They were some of the most valuable companies in America, and they weren't making a profit.
People who are just normal human beings are sitting there thinking, are you guys crazy?
And then the investors said, don't worry.
Don't worry.
This is just, this will expand to infinity just about.
And it didn't quite go to infinity, but it went pretty far.
So now let me read you the first paragraph of the article about NVIDIA.
NVIDIA reported a 94% increase in profit.
Ked, a 94% increase in profit.
Wow.
How do you have a 94% increase in profit?
And record sales for the fourth quarter helping ease concerns over a possible artificial intelligence bubble that rippled through markets in recent months.
I guess it would 94%.
The chipmaker reported net income of $43 billion up from $22.1 billion in the year earlier.
It went from $22 billion to $43 billion in one year.
And they had sales of $68 in the last quarter, I think it's the last quarter, or the one before, they had sales of $68.1 billion, which was up 73% from the sales a year earlier, $39.3 billion.
Analysts, a poll by FactSet, predicted net income of $37.5 billion and revenue of $66.1 billion.
And the core, the chips and network equipment that NVIDIA sells to AI and cloud computing companies, accounted for even faster growth than their overall sales.
And that's where they are entering, just entering.
And what that tells you is this is performing even better.
The future looks as bright as the past.
A market value of nearly $5 trillion is the world's largest publicly traded company.
So I, you know, in January, NVIDIA announced a deal, and this cost a little drop in their stock, that they're going to invest $100 billion in open AI, with whom they've had competitive relationships, to say the least.
And instead, they backed out of that, and they're going to participate now in the latest funding round, making a smaller investment, but maybe a more realistic one in the range of 30 billion.
Huang, who is the Jensen Huang, who's the CEO, very, very, I'd have to say controversial because of his relationship with China.
Jensen Huang said the company thinks it is close to reaching a new partnership agreement with Open AI.
Now, that would be breathtaking.
It would assure, assuming Huang remains with us, and we tie him down, as Trump, I think, has done pretty well.
It would make us clearly the leader in all of this AI development.
And this would allow NVIDIA to make a significant major change in what they do, what the core of their business is.
The core of their business up until now has been training.
And of course, you know, you needed training because people didn't know about AI and they still need more training.
But that's where they made their trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions.
And believe it or not, there are significantly different chips that are needed for the AI programs that involve training with the AI programs.
Two different programs, training and inference.
The inference programs are the programs where you're actually performing AI tasks, whether they be research or actual development of a process or a product.
And for years, NVIDIA has dominated the training market with its graphic processes known as GPUs and made a fortune from that.
Now, AI tools that are needed to go from training to inference are different.
And this acquisition, it would make that change immediate.
So it's a very well thought out, very structured, brilliant strategy.
And it has, I don't know, I don't know, and I've read carefully to see if I can figure it out.
And I wasn't able, I didn't have the time because we're spending a lot of time on Iran to get a real economist on this.
I don't know if NVIDIA, if that brilliant strategy NVIDIA has for this smooth transition to take over the other side of the AI business and become the dominant player, if that figured in their 90, what the heck was it?
Their 94% profit.
If it didn't, that's still coming.
So I don't know.
Look, I never give advice on stock because aside from my 401k, I consider the stock market like going to the horse, the racetrack, which I used to do, and I don't do anymore.
And I'm just looking at these business basics, and I sure as heck wouldn't bet against AI.
I would like to see it.
I would like to see it develop responsibly.
At the same time, I don't want to see it inhibited in growth.
So I have an open mind about what the balance here is between letting it develop freely as we did the internet so it can reach its full potential for America.
Because if we don't, they will.
And what is needed to regulate it so it doesn't become monstrous, which it has the capacity of doing.
Every great thing does.
You think of an airplane, right?
It's a wonderful thing.
My goodness, people, most people who have lived on this earth have not been able to travel like we're able to travel.
They've not been able to do the things that we get to do, the things that we get to see.
Then again, people in the past didn't have to suffer through plane crashes and things that can happen from an instrument like that that's so powerful.
Israel, speaking of airplanes, U.S. has sold a number of F-22s to Israel, the Raptors, which we hadn't done before.
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