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Speaker 2: I'll tell you one of the biggest pieces of the

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Speaker 3: Or he came out.

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Speaker 2: Yes, say Apple, I mean here's the Bloomberg headline, Apple

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Speaker 2: ways using outside AI power to power serie in a

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Speaker 2: major shift. This is Apple saying we kind of can't

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Speaker 2: get this AI thing going, so we'll let somebody else

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Speaker 2: do it for ust. To me, that was shocking stock

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Speaker 2: market like this stocks up a couple of percent today.

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Speaker 2: But I need to figure out what's going on here,

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Speaker 2: So I said, Man Deep, sing Bloomberg Intelligence senior tech analyst,

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Speaker 2: I need you in our studio here, Man Deep.

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Speaker 3: To me, this seemed big.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I mean Apple, they got the new headquarters, they

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Speaker 2: got like a gajillion scientist. They're saying, we can't really

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Speaker 2: get AI as well as we want it, as quickly

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if you remember at WWDC. All they

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Speaker 4: mention of AI, so it was pretty obvious that they

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Speaker 4: had nothing new to showcase from an LLM perspective. And look,

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Speaker 4: You have to ask to yourself, why can't Apple deploy

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Speaker 4: Apple's own LLM efforts have gone nowhere because they have,

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Speaker 4: generative AI LLLM wave is going to be. And now

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Speaker 4: they are partnering with an entropic and or open AI.

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Speaker 4: I think Entropic makes more sense to me because open

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Speaker 4: and to my mind, Entropic is an enterprise focused player.

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Speaker 4: They have already partnered with Amazon, and in this case

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Speaker 5: And as Paul mentioned, the stock market it wasn't disappointed

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Speaker 5: in this snooze. The stock was up yesterday when Bloomberg's

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Speaker 5: Mark Erman wrote the story, which I do think it

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Speaker 5: came out. I think he breaks, yes, he does break everything.

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Speaker 5: I think there came after the close. But still the

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Speaker 5: Little bit more about the partnerships because if Anthropic is

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Speaker 5: the same AI as all the other times.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but Apple controls the distribution across their iOS devices,

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Speaker 4: Their own LLM. The fact that they have risen so

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Speaker 3: Use Google for search.

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Speaker 2: If they have better search, we'll use that so on

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Speaker 2: our phones. Men Deep Singh, he breaks it down for

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Speaker 2: us as he always does. Mendep Sing's senior tech analyst

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Speaker 3: Is a driver of the value in these markets. This

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Speaker 3: Won the movie. I want to see this thing.

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Speaker 2: I did not see it yet, but it had a

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Speaker 3: An interesting angle here. Getha. First, let's just talk about

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Speaker 6: Very happy, Paul. So this was obviously, as you just

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Speaker 2: All right, stocks up ten percent this year, better than

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Speaker 2: All right, let's switch gears let's talk at global shipping here.

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Speaker 2: We're talking a lot about that really since the pandemic,

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Speaker 2: when we really started to get knowledgeable, if you will,

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Speaker 2: He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Synergy

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Speaker 2: Hip is the great symbol there. Stomatis, thanks so much

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Speaker 7: Well, good morning and thank you for having me. It

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Speaker 7: is indeed quite challenging. I mean, we've had the COVID

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Speaker 7: it's it's all about infrastructure. I mean, what's going on

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Speaker 7: And I believe that this is going to help shipping,

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Speaker 7: especially dry out that we operate in, very very much stimatus.

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Speaker 5: In addition to your role at Synergy, you're also the

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Speaker 5: founder and chairman and CEO of United Maritime Corporation. Together

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Speaker 5: you have a total of twenty five ships in the ocean.

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Speaker 5: I'm wondering if you had to reroute anything any shipping

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Speaker 7: Well, we have been rerouting a lot of our ships,

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Speaker 7: especially for big bulkers like we do. We were transporting

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Speaker 7: All of this routing were from the Red Sea. Now

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Speaker 2: Stamnus talk to us about a global economy that's now

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Speaker 2: that impacted maybe your business, the business of your customers.

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Speaker 7: Well, nothing has happened so far. Everything is pretty much

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Speaker 7: priced thing. The world had a big alarm shock back

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Speaker 7: seeing is all this geopolitical turmoil that has affected full

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Speaker 5: How would you assess them right now? Just a volume

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Speaker 7: Well, yes, I mean that initial plan on Liberation Day

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Speaker 7: was pretty much I'm not so sure how to characterize that,

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Speaker 7: Nobody was expecting that all these sixty seventy eighty ninety

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Speaker 7: trade has been continuing like nothing has happened. No, you know,

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Speaker 3: So modest.

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Speaker 2: How does your company compete with some of the you know,

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Speaker 3: How do you guys compete, Well.

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Speaker 7: It's a totally different industry. They operate mostly in the

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Speaker 7: Right now, we have trillions of dollars of global infrastructure

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Speaker 7: I believe that the transportation of iron or coal and

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Speaker 2: Fascinating story. Thank you for giving us a few minutes

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Speaker 2: of your time. Stamatis Santanas. He's a chairman in chief

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