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On today’s episode, we discuss the fast‑approaching future of Tesla’s self‑driving tech, as the guys react to Elon Musk’s admission that Hardware 3 cars may never qualify for truly unsupervised “robotaxi” autonomy and weigh his proposed fixes: generous trade‑ins for Hardware 4 vehicles or paid retrofits at mini‑factories that swap in new AI computers and cameras. They geek out over wireless charging pads that let Cybertrucks and other EVs juice up just by parking over a floor puck, joke about “naked” unwrapped trucks versus Glenn’s fully dressed “beast,” and imagine garages where extension cords disappear and everything is managed through apps. The conversation then shifts to AI itself: Mark explains why Musk is partnering his massive SpaceX compute “Colossus” with Cursor, a red‑hot AI coding assistant he says could be worth the eye‑popping 60‑billion‑dollar option price, and the crew marvels at how James used Grok to turn a single still photo into a flawless, funny animated clip on the first try. From there they wrestle with the dark side of smart systems—like chatbots that quietly log bomb‑building questions without alerting authorities, or tabletop “AI hockey pucks” that record every dinner conversation forever—and close with crypto talk, including Bitcoin’s recent outperformance of all major asset classes and a cautionary tale about a struggling shoe company that saw its stock rocket 700 percent overnight just by announcing a pivot into AI. Don't miss it!