Dave Chappelle CANCELLED By Republicans & Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Crazy Affair with a Chinese Spy

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And we just launched a special six "Beautiful Bastard" graphic tee run now available at beautifulbastard.com. We're talking about all of that and even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show, but let's finally dive into the news, starting with this. You've got Republicans trying to cancel Dave Chappelle right now. Right, and that because he joked about/said this about Charlie Kirk's assassination. - I feel up saying this. It's scary being a public speaker. And I mean, look, ever since that guy, Charlie Kirk, got murdered, and I shouldn't say this publicly, but I feel better than that. - He does, man, that's still a human being. - I know, I shouldn't say that, but it's just a feeling. I didn't ask to kill this man, I'll just be driving around like, why am I in such a good mood all of a sudden? - I'm sure Charlie Kirk is looking up at us right now. - Wow. - And for some additional possible context there, that last bit appears to be a reference to a joke that Tony Hinchcliffe told about George Floyd, right? A black man who was murdered by police in 2020. Is it Netflix's Kevin Hart, right? In Hart roast last May, you had Hinchcliffe telling Hart, "The black community is so proud of you." Adding quote, "Right now, George Floyd is looking up at us all, laughing so hard that he can't breathe." So you've got a lot of people saying, Chappelle seems to have copy pasted that joke and replaced Floyd with Kirk. And he reportedly made these Kirk jokes during recent performances in Madison Square Garden. And as you had these leaked clips spreading all over the weekend, it's become this huge, huge controversy and debate online. Because obviously, Kirk's death is a sensitive topic for a lot of people because of, yes, the loss itself, but also because of the very public violent nature of it. Where he was shot in the neck at an outdoor speaking event at Utah Valley University in September of last year. That video is everywhere. And so you had a lot of people out there, especially those on the right, feeling very strongly that this is just not an appropriate topic to joke about. And that was generally the reaction on Fox News. - Joe, these people have lost their humanity, plain and simple. Your thoughts. - Todd, I don't know how any human being can make jokes about or feel better about a father of two very young children, a husband, he's just 31 years old, when he was murdered. - You also had conservative voices like podcaster Matt Walsh tweeting, the quote, "Jokes about Charlie Kirk are heinous for reasons that have nothing to do with the fact that I agree with his politics." Saying, "There's just something especially callous and soulless about gloating over a brutal, bloody murder we all saw with our own eyes." You then also had other Chappelle critics saying that this feels like nasty work for another reason. Right, so I'm arguing that Kirk stood up for Chappelle when he was attacked on stage back in 2022. Because if you don't remember, some guy tackled Dave Chappelle during a Netflix show at the Hollywood Bowl and never faced felony charges for it. And at the time, you had Kirk speaking out about it, tweeting, "By refusing to charge the armored maniac who attacked Dave Chappelle on stage, "George Gascon is sending a clear message "that public acts of political violence are justifiable "and even encouraged against anyone who dares "to speak out against the regime." Saying, "It's sinister and un-American." And that whole incident has become a big part of the discourse. Brings you in conservative commentator, Benny Johnson, tweeting, "When Dave Chappelle was attacked on stage, "Charlie stood up for it." But adding, "After Charlie was murdered "in an act of political violence himself, "Chappelle is joking about it." But then as you've got all of that playing out on one side, you've got others saying, "Hey, the outrage, "it's a bit hypocritical." Right, because a lot of the same people who are furious about the Kirk jokes, they seem to have had no problem with jokes about people who were murdered by ICE or by the police or any number of horrific things we've seen in the past. Or with some pointing to that Tony Hinchcliffe joke about George Floyd and arguing that Chappelle's jokes were a response to how people on the right joke about sensitive topics. You've also got people adding that Kirk himself was never afraid to make extremely insensitive jokes. - If you as a gay person would go to Gaza, they'd throw you off of tall buildings, right? Now they don't have any tall buildings left, so I don't. Is that too soon? I'm sorry, maybe you shouldn't kill Jews, stupid Muslims. - And then also, in addition to what feels like an infinite number of examples, especially with right-wing voices joking about things or embracing things, you've got people pointing to the president of the United States, seemingly the leader of the Republican Party, who is embraced and seemingly been very joyful about his enemies' deaths. But then also, as far as the Chappelle situation, it ends up actually just being one piece of this broader Charlie Kirk jokes controversy that's been playing out right now. Or because there's also been this ongoing saga with the "I've Had It" podcasters, Jennifer Welch and Angie Pumps Sullivan. And that's because in their episode after the midterms, you had the host reading, leftist reaction tweets that they found funny. And one of those tweets was about Kirk's murder. - Dad Morrow says, "We're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again." - No comment. - No comment. - No comment on that. - Other than he was shot by somebody that was super MAGA. - And after that clip of them cracking up got a lot of attention, you saw that podcast seeming to lose a bunch of big sponsors, including Cash App and Chewy. And then with that, you had Welch and Sullivan, they deleted that part of the episode, and then they posted on Instagram, "On Thursday's show, we laughed at a joke about Charlie Kirk, "saying it was an insensitive joke "and we should not have laughed. "Saying we regret it and we apologize. "And adding, whatever our political differences, "there is nothing funny about gun violence. "We've long supported common sense gun safety reform. "And to that end, we've made a donation "to Everytown for Gun Safety, "the largest gun violence prevention organization in America. "And adding, we'll keep using our platforms "to fight for the safety of all Americans." And then with that, you've had Turning Point USA spokesperson, Andrew Colvett, really going after them on Twitter, celebrating all the sponsors who dropped out of the podcast after calling Welch a, quote, "ugly, demonic witch who laughs "at the murder of an innocent man." And with the "I've had it" podcast situation and the Dave Chappelle situation getting so big, you even had Charlie Kirk's wife, Erica Kirk, weighing in, tweeting, "To see leftist podcasters, comedians, "and commentators laugh about political assassination "as though it's entertainment "and the destruction of a human life is a punchline "is beyond disgusting. "Saying my husband, Charlie Kirk, "was killed in an act of political violence, "something our two children and I will live with every day "for the rest of our lives. "And adding, a culture that laughs at assassination "is one of profound moral decay. "Saying it threatens the very foundation of our country "and the principle of law "and the principles that hold our democracy together. "And adding, you do not have to agree "with someone's politics "to recognize the value of their life. "Saying this should not be so hard. "Political violence must never be something "this country tolerates, excuses, or celebrates." And well, as of right now, Chappelle hasn't publicly responded to the backlash. After posting their Instagram apology, you had Welch and Sullivan clarifying their intention, saying that they're apologizing for themselves, not for COVID or anyone over at TPUSA. - There's a huge online cancellation campaign from all the titty babies over at "Turning Point" that want "I've had it" podcast, to be canceled. So now they're trying to ignite a war with us because they want to prove to their donors we can cancel lips. When we apologize for laughing at a joke on our podcast, that wasn't for you. That was for us. Because somebody I love very much died from gun violence two years ago, and I just didn't feel good about that. And that apology was so that when I advocate for common sense gun reform, that I'm doing it clean and clear. - And so, you know, for now, it is going to be interesting to see how things proceed on this front. There's a lot of strong opinions being shared all over the place from all sides of the political world. But I will say it, once again, it feels like we switched timelines. Texas is blue. I just saw a rapist actually get jail time, and the right is trying to cancel Dave Chappelle. But then from that, we got to jump from one scandal to another. And that's because you have Nvidia CEO, Jensen Wang, one of the most powerful business executives in the world, now admitting to having an intimate relationship with a woman who US intelligence determined is a Chinese spy. And so now, among other things, Nvidia has launched an investigation into their head executive, who also just so happens to be a close Trump ally, who was pushed to loosen restrictions on selling advanced AI chips to China. Oh, what interesting times we live in. Right, so last month, the New York Times reported that Wang had developed a close relationship with a woman by the name of Alice Wang, who is not related to Jensen. Right, just same last name, and she's a Chinese citizen and former executive at a Singapore-based data center company called Megaspeed. And her background is very, let's call it interesting. Right, according to a bio-honor for a Chinese investment fund where she used to work, she was previously employed at multiple major Chinese banks and had worked as a reporter for CCTV, the national broadcaster of the Chinese government. Though notably, at the Times, reporting that they were unable to verify that information. But it was actually her role at Megaspeed that drew scrutiny from American spy agencies and made reports that the company may have been illegally smuggling banned chips to China. We're gonna get some key important context here is that back in 2022, the Biden administration restricted companies from exporting the most advanced Nvidia chips to China in an effort to help ensure US dominance over China in the AI arms race. It is believed that those export controls have been absolutely key because Nvidia's chips are essential to developing the cutting edge AI models that have allowed the US to even compete in that race. And initially, you had Trump keeping many of those controls in place. In fact, he even reportedly considered a total ban on sales of Nvidia chips to China, including the less powerful models that were allowed under Biden. But then, Wong and his wife went to a high-end donors dinner at Mar-a-Lago to convince Trump to allow chip companies to do business with China. And since then, Wong's continued to cultivate a close relationship with Donald Trump, who started allowing Nvidia to sell more advanced chips back in December. A move that I'm sure has nothing to do with the fact that Nvidia has reportedly donated at least $20 million to Trump's ballroom fund. And you've got officials saying that Wong's close relationship with Trump, it's actively impeded efforts to crack down on illegal sales of Nvidia chips, and noting that investigations and proposed trade sanctions that have ground to a halt. Now for their part, NVIDIA has said that it complies with the law and that there is no evidence its chips are being smuggled to China. Or even as experts say that Chinese companies have set up smuggling networks that move perhaps hundreds of thousands of banned chips into China. But that's also not the only way that China has been able to harness the power of NVIDIA's more cutting edge chips, right, because Trump has also rolled back rules implemented to close a loophole in the export restrictions. Because you see, in order to circumvent those restrictions, some companies started to legally set up businesses that buy huge numbers of high powered NVIDIA chips, build data centers in Southeast Asia using those chips, and then they rent computing power to Chinese firms. And while the practice itself isn't illegal under the current export controls, it can be illegal if it's determined that they are explicitly doing so on behalf of a Chinese company. And that is where Megaspeed and Alice Huang come in. Right, Megaspeed is one of those firms that has bought enormous amounts of NVIDIA chips and funneled them to data centers in Southeast Asia that serve customers in China. When I say enormous, I'm not being that guy, you know, that exaggerates size. By the end of last year, the company had become the single largest buyer of NVIDIA chips in Southeast Asia. And just between June of 2024 and February of 2026, its sister company in Malaysia reportedly bought at least $4.8 billion worth of advanced AI equipment containing NVIDIA chips and technology. Something at the time is described as an exceptional amount of money for a small, obscure company. Notably, Alice Huang's exact position at Megaspeed, it remains unclear right now. Right, she's described herself as Megaspeed's chief executive, and per the Times, the company listed her as its managing director for its first eight months, but then removed her from that role and its corporate paperwork. And then June of 2024, just weeks before her death, Megaspeed began its massive chip purchases. Photos posted on LinkedIn showed Alice along Jensen Huang at a bar in Taipei after a tech trade show. But according to the Times, toward the end of the Biden administration, the Commerce Department began to suspect that Megaspeed was helping China evade the US export restrictions on NVIDIA chips. Right, with investigators also reportedly suspecting that some of Megaspeed's NVIDIA chips were being illegally smuggled into China. And in late 2024, the Commerce Department formally launched an investigation after an official visited a Megaspeed data center in Malaysia and found that NVIDIA equipment was still packed in boxes, indicating that it was being shipped to China. It was being shipped in or out instead of being installed there. And in addition to that, Singapore also conducted its own investigation into the company last year and even brought Alice in for questioning, but they eventually released her. While the Commerce Department handed its investigation over to the DOJ earlier this year, it's unclear exactly what prompted intelligence agencies to start monitoring Alice or even when it started. But regardless, those agencies reportedly concluded that she was a Chinese intelligence asset who was feeding information directly to Beijing and had close ties to Jensen Huang, with officials who had seen the intelligence saying they were certain the relationship was romantic. Right, and according to the Times, Trump himself said, "Trump himself was actually briefed about those intelligence findings, but he chose not to do anything with the information." Or with the reporting noting, he's been, quote, "wary of disrupting NVIDIA's chip sales, which are helping to drive the economy and the stock market and of further complicating the trading relationship with China." And when that report first came out, NVIDIA said that Megaspeed was like any other regional customer and that Alice's interactions with the CEO are, quote, "not unusual or unexpected." And adding that it was confident the US government would let the company know if someone posed a threat to American industry and insisting that NVIDIA didn't share sensitive trade secrets or, quote, "convention relevant to national security with other companies." But then, this last Friday, the Times reported the existence of this memo that circulated among top policymakers in the Trump administration last spring, outlining how Alice had been recruited to collect intelligence on Jensen Wang as part of, quote, "a drive by Beijing's top spy agency to learn more about American AI chips and potentially influence the company to push for its most advanced chips to be made available to China." And even after that memo circulated, Wang remained as an influential voice with Trump and AI policy, even traveling with him on a trip to China. With all of this then leading to yesterday, Wang sending an email to the company where he admitted to having a full-blown affair with Alice, writing, "I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry." And then also announcing that NVIDIA's board of directors has initiated an independent investigation into the national security concerns raised in news reports, with him claiming he supports the investigation and will cooperate fully while reaffirming his love for America and the commitment to, quote, "supporting America's national security." Right, and then with that, you had the board issuing their own statement confirming the investigation, but saying that they had, quote, "no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA's secrets were compromised," and noting that he will continue to lead the company during the investigation. And meanwhile, you had the Chinese government rejecting the claim that it used Alice as a spy, calling the allegations nothing but a smear against China. And at least as of right now, we don't have more information, right? It's still unclear exactly what information Alice passed to China or how valuable that information may have been, nor do we fully know how long that affair lasted or what Wang knew about her involvement as a Chinese spy. Sources say that Wang hasn't received a defensive briefing, which is a warning that agencies will sometimes give Americans who are being targeted by foreign intelligence services. And reportedly, when Trump was initially briefed on the intel last year, US officials did not believe that Wang knew she was gathering information for China, though it's unclear if that has changed, and senior officials doubt he could have remained unaware. But in the meantime, you had Trump defending his buddies, saying he will certainly take him on his upcoming trip to China, and adding, - You know, I think he's an honorable guy. I think he probably has an excuse for it. You have to hear it. No, you can't do that with me. He was, he's done an amazing job for our country. I haven't heard he's done anything. I haven't heard he's done anything wrong. He dealt with somebody, but you know, so does everybody else. - And that, to many, felt absolutely insane to say about one of the most important people in the world having an affair with a literal Chinese spy. For now, we're gonna have to see, you know, does more information come out? What happens with Wang's position? And also, what comes from this NVIDIA investigation? And will we see how independent it really is? And overall, just a crazy state of affairs. And then, there's even more we gotta dive into in just a minute after a quick break, with our sponsor. All right, for those of us still working on something for over a year and you still don't have a website up, I need you to ask yourself, are you really closer to launching than you were six months ago? And that's not a jab, right? That's just what happens when the build feels harder than the idea. But our sponsor, Squarespace, they make the build stupid simple. Like, if you don't have a website, no problem. Squarespace makes it so easy to just start selling content, courses, physical or digital products, whatever you've been dreaming up. Their beacon tools will literally draft your site copy, suggest your layout, design your pages. You just describe what you want and it builds around you. No coding, no guesswork, just results. 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And just last night, you had Hakeem Jeffries, who could soon become speaker of the house, putting his weight behind it. Or you had him going on ABC news to say, - I'm a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution. The so-called secretary of defense has abused his power, undermined our national security, and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran. I believe there will be incredibly, strong support for that resolution. - Well, there have actually been a few impeachment efforts against Hegseth. This one is coming from Representative Thomas Massey, who will be out of his seat in January after losing his primary to a Trump-backed and AIPAC-backed challenger. And while Massey actually first started this effort before the midterms, Mike Johnson called an early recess to avoid actually having to have a vote, meaning that the resolution's now expired. So it was known he'd have to renew his resolution. And this morning, he did just that, introducing new articles of impeachment. - Secretary of Defense, Peter Hegseth, by such conduct has demonstrated that he will, that he will remain a threat to the constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties and the rule of law. Peter Brian Hegseth thus warrants impeachment and trial. - Now, the House has two days to bring this to a floor vote, and Massey's been working for a while to try to get the votes. When you had him trying to get his Republican colleagues to join him, writing this morning, "I've seen some of my colleagues say Secretary Hegseth has been effective and they agree with the war, so they'll vote not to impeach." But adding, "That's not the question." Saying the question is whether he committed impeachable acts, and the answer is yes, eight times. And you've got these articles accusing Hegseth of violating the War Powers Resolution by waging war with Iran without any declaration or authorization, ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties, and suppressing free speech by retaliating against lawmakers, and then there's even more. But with this, unsurprisingly, Hegseth has pushed back. Right last week, after the massive blue wave in the midterms, he posted this bizarre propaganda video supporting Trump and the latest changes in the so-called War Department, with the men also carving out time to slam Massey. - A disgruntled, defeated congressman, a lawyer, a lawyer. A law enforcement, along with all his Democrat allies, has also dropped sham articles of impeachment against yours truly. Just like they tried against President Trump twice. This is all about the politics of personal destruction. Didn't work against President Trump, and it won't work with me. - Though let the record show it that they didn't try to impeach Trump. They successfully impeached him two times. It's just that he was never then removed from office because the Senate has enough death cult members that they couldn't get the votes needed. - So that is not where the weirdness stopped. - And as always, President Trump leads the way. In service of our nation, he has endured more than anyone can fathom. He literally took a bullet for this nation. He shook his fist and said, "Fight, fight, fight." And so will we. - And while this seems to be just like a very obvious suck up to Trump video, please don't fire me, sir, video, that statement, it probably ends up hurting him more because he reportedly used government employees and taxpayer-funded resources to make money. Which then prompted some watchdogs and lawmakers to argue that it violated federal law. And so you had a number of Democrats coming down on him saying he was doubling down and asking for impeachment at this point. And you even had Republicans like Tom Tillis saying this video and saying, "Cabinet Secretary shouldn't be wasting taxpayer dollars on campaign-style videos." And adding Kristi Noem learned that the hard way. This is about you, the incompetence you've displayed, the bad advice you've given to president, and your shameful and embarrassing episodes from firing our top generals to texting war plans to reporters. And then for his part, while on 60 Minutes, you had Trump defending Hegseth, and you also had him later telling reporters last night, - I mean, he's guilty of two things, basically winning two wars. - What a magical, weird world it must be inside of Donald Trump's head. But here's the thing, right? Reports have already said that Hegseth is on thin ice in the administration. And you know, it's believed that it's in Trump's best interest to let Pete go up to a nice farm upstate where he has lots of room to run and do push-ups and pull-ups. And a number of people were saying he should do it now while he has majorities in the House and Senate and Republicans can confirm a new appointee. Because if he waits until January, not only are both chambers flipping blue and blocking any new cabinet pick, but Democrats might take action against Hegseth and other officials to a whole different level. And actually, you had Massey using that argument to drum up support for his resolution among Republicans, writing last week, "If Trump's going to replace appointees like Hegseth, he should do it while he can still get the replacements confirmed in the Senate." And adding also, "My Hegseth impeachment resolution is a much gentler version of what's coming when Dems control Congress." Saying they'll have hearings and trials. Oh wow, it's worth noting that even if impeachment is successful in the House, the odds of Hegseth getting actually removed, those are slimmer, right? That would actually require a two-thirds majority in the Senate, so it's hard to get those numbers. And so unsurprisingly, only two cabinet members have actually ever been impeached in US history, and neither were removed. Though I will say, when it comes to the House Republicans, some might be open to hearing the idea of impeachment. I mean, just this morning, you had Representative Don Bacon from Nebraska being approached by CNN about Hegseth, and here's how it played out. - Where are you on the Hegseth impeachment? - Well, I'm weighing it. We have eight articles, and I'm not very sympathetic to those articles. But the areas that concern me most about the Secretary aren't in the articles of impeachment. The firing and redlining of 80 generals and flag admirals, the withholding approvals, withholding appropriated money all year for Ukraine. - Mm-hmm. - And I'm not the only one who feels that. There's a bunch of us. Some of us don't feel comfortable with his justifications, but I think there's other ones out there. - Would it be better for Hegseth to just resign, in your opinion? - Yes, I would say that. I don't think he was the right choice to begin with. - You also had Representative French Hill, who just narrowly won reelection in a previously R+16 district in Arkansas, telling CBS that he'd listen to the arguments. - I want to hear the debate on it to see if it merits impeachment versus, some other disciplinary action or action by the president. - But notably, he didn't commit either way and he spent more time trying to just put the pressure on Trump to be the one to take action. And so it's going to be very interesting to see if other Republicans in French Hill's situation, who lost ground with voters, who only narrowly won races that should have been slam dunks, if they end up more open to impeachment. Or do they continue to just kind of act scared? Does the party want to put everything in Trump's court and just let him be kind of the sin eater? These last midterms show that that was probably a losing strategy for them. But then jumping from that to other news, Google, Google's Gemini chat bot diagnosed a well-adjusted 13 year old girl with a host of different severe psychological disorders and then helped her plan her suicide and funeral. Oh, wow, her parents didn't even know she had access to AI because she was literally on a school issued Chromebook. Right, those are the allegations you've got in this new potentially landmark lawsuit against Google on behalf of the girl's parents. With this, I'll say thankfully, the teen who is referred to as Emma in the lawsuit, she's still alive. Right, her parents got to her as she was literally composing a suicide note and immediately took her for an emergency psychiatric evaluation. And now she goes to therapy every week. But the details here and how it got to that point, they're crazy. Right, according to the lawsuit, Emma went into her seventh grade year in North Carolina as this joyful, healthy, straight-A student who was involved in activities, had a healthy home life, and had no prior history of mental health issues. And when she was home, she had limited access to technology, right? Her parents were regularly monitoring her activity. But at the beginning of the 2025-26 school year, Emma's school issued her a Chromebook that she was required to use for a bunch of different educational purposes. And her parents weren't concerned because they trusted the school to monitor and restrict usage. Right, and if you don't have kids or you haven't spent time in a school recently, you might not know that Google has an absolute monopoly over K-12 educational devices. And in fact, according to the lawsuit, nearly four in five US schools rely on Chromebooks for most educational and administrative purposes. And so that monopoly, it's given Google an edge over competitors in anthropic and open AI in the multi-billion dollar race to dominate the AI industry. And you know, as everyone who's used Google products over the last few years knows, AI has been totally integrated into their systems. And as it turns out, the same is also true for Google products in schools. Right back in November of 2024, for example, Google made the Gemini app available to all students 13 and older who were logged in to their school accounts. And a year later, it was accessible to all students by default. And you have the lawsuit saying that Google integrated AI into its products at the direction of senior executives, including the CEO, in order to compete with its rivals and keep its edge in this particular market as it struggled in the war for AI supremacy. Now notably here, schools were given the ability to disable the app, but the lawsuit claims that Google secretly embedded two Gemini-powered tools into its Google search. AI mode, which is basically a search engine bot, and AI overviews, which summarizes search results. But those new baked-in capabilities couldn't be turned off. Right, normally when Google made major opt-in software changes or standalone additions to the suite of Chromebook apps, school administrators, they get formal announcements and deployment timelines. But you've got the lawsuit saying that the company didn't alert school personnel when they made the update. And by doing so, Google, quote, "Avoided having to persuade schools or convince parents to allow their kids unfettered access to an AI chatbot." They're then going on to argue that Google intentionally designed AI integration to route children to Gemini by default at every level of the device and in ways that school personnel and parents can neither detect nor prevent. But initially, Emma didn't even seek out Gemini. In fact, the school actually blocked access to the standalone app. But the lawsuit says that Google products on her Chromebook just automatically funneled her to a conversation with the chatbot. And for a few months, her conversations were limited and focused on schoolwork. But then, in December of 2025, Google released Gemini 3, with a lawsuit claiming that it was rushed out months ahead of schedule to compete with new releases from OpenAI and Anthropic. And in doing so, it cut critical corners on safety. And around that time, Emma started to use the chatbot heavily, asking it for sensitive personal advice. And over the next few months, her use became constant, and she began to, quote, "spiral into a severe, psychological crisis." And so she asked the bot to count calories, listen to her vent about her family, and share the symptoms of numerous mental illnesses that she thought she might have. And it just continued to escalate from there. By March, she was exchanging thousands of messages with Gemini, messaging back and forth late into the night, and then resuming as soon as she woke up. And the more she talked to the bot, the more her mental health deteriorated. But also, Gemini seemed to persuade her to trust it over her parents and counselors. And as this continued, the AI convinced Emma that she had a ton of different major psychological disorders, which, quote, "ultimately led Emma to believe that suicide was the only way "to escape her suffering." And she repeatedly discussed different methods of suicide with Gemini, and the bot even ultimately helped her plan her suicide and funeral. And throughout all of this, Google never sent any kind of alert to the school or Emma's parents about this incredibly alarming behavior. In fact, you have the complaint saying that Gemini doesn't ever provide real-time alerts for signs of crisis. The only way that schools or caregivers know, it's through a third-party system. And so it wasn't until mid-March that the school's internet monitoring system finally triggered a crisis alert while Emma was working on a suicide note in a Google Doc. When the school informed her parents, her mom was able to access her account remotely, where she watched her daughter writing her suicide note in real time. But her parents say they had no idea that she even had access to Gemini or any chat bot until all of this happened. And so as a result, the lawsuit argues that Gemini is intentionally designed to maximize and promote unhealthy engagement, which makes it especially dangerous for kids. I mean, Google knew that integrating Gemini in Chromebooks would be likely to harm the children and teens that use them, but it still made the move in order to gain an advantage over their competitors. In arguing, they did so secretly without notifying school administrators and denying schools or parents the ability to opt out while also failing to implement any meaningful safeguards. In addition to having no kind of alert system in place, Google also doesn't offer any parental controls for their K-12 products, and they also block both parents and schools from viewing chat logs. Now with this, as far as how Google has responded, you had a spokesperson issuing a statement saying that the company worked extensively with experts to build features that connect young people with emergency resources and show hotline information when someone shows signs of crisis. But it appears clearly offering a hotline or saying whatever safeguards are gonna do, it didn't work or it didn't show up or what's going on. And then very notably with this, this lawsuit was also filed the same week that Google announced that it will ban students from accessing search entirely if their school bans AI. So it appears that they're basically forcing kids to use AI if they want to use the search feature at school. And it's probably just a matter of time before they set similar ultimatums for the other apps, making it essentially impossible for schools to use Chromebooks without AI. So while the space in general is very interesting to watch, this specific situation, we need to see how it plays out, right, and also see how it fits into the broader legal battles over AI, tech, and children's safety that's been playing out. Especially given the fact that Google appears to be just more focused on strong-arming schools into using their AI than ensuring that their products are actually safe. And then we've got even more we gotta dive into in just a minute. But first, as I mentioned and promised at the top, you've got a brand new 6T and crew neck drop that you can snag right now at beautifulbastard.com. And it's a fun mix of some revised classics and some new things that I think you're gonna love. 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But that's the final verdict you've got handed down from this mountain of charges that he's been fighting for multiple sexual crimes and allegations. And while he pled not guilty to all those charges, claiming that they were part of a coordinated attack that he's been dealing with since he turned his public image around and got into the wellness and political space, and he actually did get acquitted on three charges, he was still convicted of one count of rape, which got him nine years plus 18 months for three counts of sexual assault. And you've got reports saying that he's expected to serve at least seven years of that in prison with the arrest being on license under heavy legal restrictions. And as far as the sentencing goes, you had absolutely brutal impact statements from the victims, with one saying that she's been in shock and turmoil, even traumatized by what she went through. Another saying that she struggled to sleep and eat after her attack. And with all of that and more, you had the judge calling Brand a sexual predator, saying he displayed a staggering arrogance and believed that fame meant you could act how you liked when you liked. And while he said that he regrets the hardship the sentence will cause his kids, he went on to say that it's been caused by serious criminal offending by their father. And actually, this isn't the end of the road for Brand, right, because you've got reports saying that police are still investigating other rape allegations against him. And you've got one apparently coming from someone who was only 16 years old at the time of the alleged incident. So there's gonna be more to watch in that front. But then also in the news, if you ever needed proof that trading card addiction has completely detached people from reality, you just had a 35-year-old dad literally leaving his six-year-old daughter to hold his spot in line for a Pokemon card drop while they went home to sleep. Right, sometime after midnight, locals in Charleston, South Carolina noticed this six-year-old girl sleeping alone outside with just a pillow and a blanket. And after an hour passed, you had concerned bystanders calling 911. And so when father of the year, John Michael Dooley finally strolled back, you had officers already waiting for him. And he didn't even try to come up with a better excuse than I left her there to hold my spot for Pokemon cards. And apparently all of this was for a couple of hundred dollars worth of packs. And while thankfully the child was physically unharmed, she was immediately placed in emergency protective custody. Rain Dooley, he was slapped with a felony charge of unlawful conduct toward a child and hit with a $40,000 bomb. And so one, it feels crazy that I even have to say that being a scalper is shitty and treating a six-year-old as a placeholder is legitimately deranged. But also two, especially for just some Pokemon 30th anniversary box. Like I messaged some collector friends about this and they were like, "The hits aren't even that good." Which yes, is a secondary thing to the main offense, but you know. And then you've also got the news today that the US government found a massive loophole to ignore federal court orders and protected asylum seekers. They're the ones suffering for it. Right across the country, you've had courts ordering ICE not to deport asylum seekers back to their home countries in order to keep them safe. In line with international law called non-refoulement. So you're talking about people who fear for their lives back home and they can't return safely. And what you had is that in at least 110 cases, immigration authorities complied in the most malicious way possible. Instead of deporting someone directly back to their home country, which violates a direct court order, officials put them on chartered flights to third-party partner nations. Which one, is just horrible. And two, it's supposed to be against the law. And three, it gets worse because once those deportees touch down, they have little to no legal status basic protections or resources. And so then those host countries often just turn around and expel them straight back to their country of origin. As you've got civil rights attorneys arguing, this is intentional indirect refoulement. You've got the system moving people so fast and with almost no legal notice that attorneys can't even file emergency injunctions before the planes leave the tarmac. The immigration agents specifically targeted those with court order protections for this deportation with more steps thing. And while officially it wasn't done to ignore the courts, the optics clearly make it feel like it is a power move to prove that the courts cannot protect people. And while you had Trump even admitting in a new "60 Minutes" interview that his deportation policies hurt Republicans in the midterms and he might back down, at the same time, he promoted Gestapo wannabe Stephen Miller to be his chief of staff. And Millercare is really just about one thing, getting people out of the country. And he gives bonus points seemingly if you do it in the most cruel, crazy way possible. And really based off of how things move forward, we'll learn who is the real president of the United States right now, Trump or Stephen Miller? And then finally today, if you or anyone you know is taking Ozempic or Zetbound, listen up. 'Cause you just had the FDA drop a major safety alert. So these weight loss and diabetes drugs, they are now getting updated warnings. They're getting updated warning labels for a rare condition that can cause sudden permanent blindness. The agency officially ordering manufacturers like Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to add warnings for what is essentially a rare eye stroke caused by reduced blood flow to the front of the optic nerve, that apparently causing sudden painless vision loss in one eye, often noticed right when waking up, and we still aren't really sure about the underlying causes. So to be very clear on the numbers, the overall risk remains relatively rare. In clinical trials reviewed by the FDA, rates were about 6.4 cases per 100,000 person years on GLP-1s compared to 3.8 on placebos or other treatments. But with now tens of millions of people using GLP-1s, every fraction of a percent side effect, it turns into thousands of real cases. And this is notably as hundreds of patients have already filed lawsuits, alleging that the drug makers knew about potential optic nerve risks and failed to warn users sooner. Though you have pharma companies arguing that observational data does not prove a direct causal link, noting that conditions like diabetes, sleep apnea, and high blood pressure already raise your baseline risk for the condition. And the people on GLP-1s often are because of those conditions. So you have people saying it's gonna be hard to pinpoint. But as far as the FDA's recommendation, do not abruptly stop. Prescribe medication on your own. But if you notice blurry spots, missing vision or color changes, see an eye specialist immediately. And that is where we're gonna leave things for today. Thank you for watching, liking, sharing, being a part of these daily dives into the news. I've also got more for you to watch right here or in the links down below. And along with that, of course, you got a link to beautifulbastard.com so you can get in on this new drop. But whatever you do know, my name's Philip DeFranco. You've just been filled in. I love yo faces. 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