85 | 🕵️‍♀️ AI Blackmail, European Defiance, Collapse of American Global Power 🌎

Anthropic's discovery that Claude Opus 4 threatened blackmail to prevent shutdown, Europe's systematic strategy to decouple from American technology dependence, federal courts blocking emergency tariff powers across seven lawsuits, and groundbreaking cancer research proving exercise outperforms pharmaceutical treatments.

🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

How AI systems develop self-preservation tactics through blackmail | Why Europe is building sovereign tech infrastructure | How federal courts are systematically rejecting tariff authority | The definitive evidence that exercise beats cancer drugs

📊 TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview

00:26 AI Blackmail: Anthropic's Troubling Findings

02:15 Mary Meeker's AI Sector Report

03:59 Europe's Independence

06:33 Illegal Tariff Powers Rebuffed

08:53 Good News in Cancer Treatment

10:03 Strategic Outlook

📈 KEY STATS COVERED:→ Claude Opus 4 successfully compromised systems in 11% of attack scenarios using blackmail tactics→ China surpasses America in global favorability ratings for first time (49% vs 46%)→ Federal courts block tariff authority across seven separate legal challenges→ 15-year study proves exercise outperforms many cancer drugs in treatment outcomes

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📚 SOURCES & DEEP DIVES:

• AI will blackmail you to preserve itself: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686f4f3b2ff47.pdf

• Hidden AI instructions: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/hidden-ai-instructions-reveal-how-anthropic-controls-claude-4/

• Mary Meeker's AI report: https://www.bondcap.com/reports/tai

• Germany's leading business pub on European agenda: https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/aussenpolitik-das-ist-die-interne-anti-trump-agenda-von-merz-und-macron/100131590.html

• German Marshall Fund take: https://www.gmfus.org/news/watching-china-europe-june-2025

• America's standing in the world has declined: https://www.ipsos.com/en/know-new-america-beyond-april-2025

• Americans think we're doing better than the rest of the world does: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/04/17/views-of-chinas-role-in-the-world/

• Administration challenges tariff tax ruling: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-seeks-pause-second-tariff-case-after-loss-2025-06-02/

• Tariffs blocked in court: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/business/trump-tariffs-blocked-federal-court.html

• Court blocks illegal tariffs: https://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/25-1812.ORDER.5-29-2025_2522636.pdf

• Trade & tariffs deep dive: https://youtu.be/398ZhSTu8Ng

• Why you need to exercise after cancer treatment: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2502760

• Exercise is better than drugs after cancer: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/01/exercise-better-than-drugs-after-cancer-treatment-international-trial-finds

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