Within 18 months, Taiwan will no longer be a major geopolitical flashpoint, as US domestic chip fabrication capacity closes the gap with what Taiwan currently provides strategically.
“we're 18 months from Taiwan not being an important moment of conversation the way it is today. Why 18 months? because we are at a point where we're probably 1 to2 nanometers away from being able to do what we need Taiwan to strategically do for us.”
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Taiwan and TSMC remain a dominant, closely-watched geopolitical flashpoint well beyond the predicted 18-month window; US domestic fabrication has not closed the strategic gap.
Apple will emerge as a leading AI player within the next year by leveraging local, privacy-preserving models running on its high-RAM desktop hardware.
“I think the future of this is going to be local models running on extraordinary desktop hardware. And if you have employees on this level of hardware running these models local like I have started to do, they become 10 times more valuable than the employees not running it. I think Apple's my choice for the next year.”
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Apple has not emerged as a leading AI player; it remains widely viewed as trailing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic in frontier AI models through 2026.
The upcoming year will be the hottest year on record by far, driven by a record-breaking El Nino releasing stored ocean heat into the atmosphere.
“there is so much excess energy stored up in the oceans... over the next few months, that energy is going to be released into the atmosphere. And that will absolutely 99% confidence that will make the upcoming year the hottest year on record by far that humans have ever experienced.”
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2026 is tracking as a top-five warmest year on record per NOAA/Berkeley Earth data, but not clearly "hottest by far" as predicted with 99% confidence.
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India's monsoon season will fail this year, triggering a calorie deficit and major economic crisis across South Asia given the compounding nitrogen-fertilizer shortage from the Iran/Hormuz crisis.
“the scariest one of all is if the monsoons fail, which is now a very high probability event in India... over the next year in South Asia you could see a calorie deficit and a major kind of economic crisis that starts to emerge.”
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India's monsoon started severely deficient but recovered sharply by July 2026, not a clean failure as predicted.
Public markets will eventually turn skeptical of AI spending and demand ROI proof, causing today's overheated enterprise-software and AI valuations to reprice downward before settling into a new equilibrium.
“eventually, Jason, the next trade that has to happen is when the public markets become a little bit less breathless about AI and they ask one simple question. Okay, guys, you've spent $3 trillion in the last four years. What is the ROI of these tokens?... I think you're going to see these revenues which are like way out of whack... will come way back down and I think these go back up and you'll find a balance.”
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Partial AI-related market corrections occurred through 2026, but no full repricing-and-new-equilibrium has been confirmed as settled.
When SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI eventually go public, a wave of lawsuits will emerge between purveyors of the layered SPVs used to trade their private shares.
“I will guarantee you this. Once SpaceX goes public, once Anthropic goes public, once OpenAI goes public, you're going to see a litany of these lawsuits back and forth between the purveyors of these SPVS.”
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None of SpaceX, Anthropic, or OpenAI had gone public as of this check, so the premise has not yet been met.