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Good morning for Daily Show.
I'm Neil Fryman.
And I'm Toby Howell.
Today, what you need to know about Trump accounts, which are now live.
Then scientists created something that resembles a cell from scratch for the very first time.
It's Monday, July 6th.
Let's ride.
My, oh my, what, a 4th of July weekend, scorching heat, lightning storms, fireworks,
and I'm still recovering from a wedding I went to on Friday night at Madison Square Garden.
Toby, you alive?
Fairly, Neil.
I'm actually recording this from the airport Holiday Inn Express in Detroit.
My flight into New York got canceled yesterday due to all the rain, but I'm feeling good and happy to be here.
Great.
So we thought we'd seen it all at the World Cup, but the drama only cranked up yesterday
when FIFA surprised everyone by announcing that USA's star striker, Fuller and Balligan,
would be allowed to play against Belgium tonight.
In the previous game, Balagan received a controversial red card,
which, per FIFA's rules, would bar him from competing in the next match.
However, in a highly unusual move, that suspension got suspended,
and Baligan will be available to the delight of American fans and the disgust of the Belgians.
It looks like President Trump may have something to do with this.
Yeah, all of FIFA's rules are like,
here's a million articles and subsections, but actually every decision is going to be made by some
unnamed dudes in a smoky backroom. Yes, Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Luggan,
and a team of lawyers were involved in this. Specifically, they looked at how slow motion replay
was used improperly to give the first red card out. Trump also called FIFA President Gianni
Infantino, who he is close with directly, and Infantino agreed to look into it. So if I was a
Belgian fan, I would feel extremely hard done by because a lot of buttons were pressed to get this
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world's two largest stock exchanges, New York and the NASDAQ, will bury their rivalry to ring
the opening bell together for the first time in a historic Oval Office ceremony. The reason behind
all the pomp in circumstance is Trump accounts are now live. It's understandable if you miss this on July
4th, but tax advantage investment accounts for kids, which the president branded Trump accounts,
officially launched on Saturday. That means millions of babies are the newest shareholders in
America's largest corporations, beware hostile takeovers. So here's how this works. Basically,
it's a savings account for children under 18 that invests in a low-cost index fund tracking the
S&P 500. The sweetener is that for babies born between 2025 and 2028, they'll get $1,000 in seed
money from the Treasury Department. Other children may be eligible for money, too, thanks to a pledge
from billionaire Michael Dell and several companies to support the program. Treasury Secretary Scott
percent said the goal is to get more people invested in the stock market at a very early age so
they can reap the rewards of compounding growth. Besson noted that 40 percent of Americans have
no exposure to U.S. equities and have no stake in the wealth they helped to create. He said that
Trump accounts, quote, represent a profound reimagining of that arrangement. Toby, I am looking
forward to seeing little Timmy go full Carl icon on the board of directors. Yeah, let's dive into
the power of compound interests. If you put one,
$1,000 in to a Trump account, assuming the historical 10% S&P 500 returns, you will have $6,000 by age 18 and
$243,000 by age 55. But if you also add on that additional $5,000 annual contribution that is
allowed under Trump accounts, you would have nearly $13 million by age 55. Those stats always sound
unreal, but that is the power of compounding. So that is why, you know, a lot of
lot of people who support Trump accounts are saying, hey, this completely changes the financial
trajectory of people's lives because of just how big that NessA can grow if you contribute annually.
And if the S&P 500 does actually grow 10% or more per year, which it has recently, but who
knows how long that will last. And it looks like the Trump administration was also keen on
other folks joining in and contributing to Trump accounts. So it's not just their seed money.
They were hoping for this multiplier effect. And, you know, Michael Dell came through.
who is an ally of the president.
He pledged $6.25 billion.
He and his wife, which is considered the largest ever donation to American children.
And how that works is that if you were born between 2016 and 2024, you are under 10 years old.
You get $250 seed money in your Trump account if you live in a zip code where the median
income is $150,000 or less.
So there is another million, bunch of million children, 25.
million with 250 bucks in their Trump account. And then a bunch of other companies have also stepped up
and saying, you look, if you are an employee here, we will give you a match. Those include SOFI,
Charter Communications, BNY, BlackRock, Robin Hood, Charles Schwab. And Micron has also pledged
$250 million to the Trump account. So it looks like a bunch of these companies and a few billionaires
are getting in as well. So they sound pretty good on the surface, but what are some arguments against
Trump accounts. One is that wealthier families still might end up benefiting the most because even though
you mentioned that a lot of children are eligible for this, families with more disposable income are
obviously going to be able to contribute more money each year, which allows those wealthy children
to accumulate far larger balances. Again, the difference between $1,000 and $5,000 a year is millions
of dollars when you stretch it out over a long time horizon. So that's one of the criticisms. The second is
It doesn't address people's immediate financial problems because if you're struggling with rent right now,
if you're struggling with groceries right now, an investment account is still pretty low on your
priority list.
And at the end of the day, maybe $1,000 over 18 years isn't as transformative as maybe some
proponents are making it out to be because, again, from zero years old to 18 years old,
that money's only going to turn into $6,000.
Again, I say only because it's better than nothing, but that is not necessary.
necessarily a nesting that allows you to go to college at 18 years old. So those are some of the
arguments against Trump accounts, even though there are some loud voices on both sides of the aisle
that are arguing for these type of accounts. Also, it's not the only savings account for kids
that are available. A very popular one is a 529 account which you put in for your kids and then
you pay for college or higher education. And financial experts say, actually, this is better
than a Trump account when it comes to flexibility and the tax advantages.
or there's IRAs as well.
So this is just one of a suite of options that you have available for saving up for your
kids later in their life.
If you want to sign up, you know, maybe you maxed out your 529 or your IRA for your kid.
Well, go to Trumpaccounts.gov.
Toby, you love saying that Trump is very good at branding.
So he absolutely did it with this.
So you can download the Trump accounts app to activate it.
Also, if you don't want to do that, there is a form that you attach to your
tax return called IRS Form 4547, which also allows you to sign up for a Trump account.
Let's move on.
The add row function in Excel isn't the only way to create new cells these days.
Scientists manage to make a spud cell from scratch, a synthetic version of what makes up you
and me.
A spud cell is a water droplet stuffed with non-living components to create a cell-like system
in a lab setting.
It was developed by a synthetic biologist out of minutes.
named Kate Adamala alongside her team.
The paper describing the breakthrough is not peer-reviewed as of yet,
but researchers are excited that the spud cell was able to feed, grow,
replicated DNA, and divide into other cells.
Those are core lifelike functions,
which means it's the closest scientists have come to building a functioning cell from scratch.
Why are we trying to make fake cells?
If synthetic biologists nail this process,
theoretically we can create living organs as easily as we can make a car engine.
That can do everything for.
from aid a new drug discovery to help us understand the building blocks of life itself.
Despite the breakthrough, spud cell is not technically considered truly alive.
Researchers had to manually make it divide.
His DNA is frequently lost during replication.
It can't replace its worn out bits, and as a result, it can't really evolve over many
generations.
You know, we're still a ways off from cooking up a spleen or a kidney, but the spud cell
brings us one step closer.
Do you think these scientists, you know, when they were in seventh or sixth grade,
they heard mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
And they were like, that is so exciting.
Like, I need to do this for the rest of my life.
All the rest of us were like, okay, well, that's good to know.
That's the only thing I know about cells going forward.
I thought the reason that she named this spud cells was kind of funny.
She wanted to remark to evoke Sputnik, which is, you know, the Russian, the Soviet satellite at the dawn of the space age.
So that was one reason, Spud, Sputnik.
And then the other was, she said she's Polish and she's mostly made of potato.
and apparently this cell also resembles a potato.
So there you go.
The USSR satellite and the fact that she's made of potatoes is the reason we're calling this spud cell.
I was curious as to why we even are attempting this.
Because why do we need to make a cell from scratch?
Because by all accounts, it's a pretty wimpy cell.
Atomala has described it as a wimpy organism that right now basically does nothing
other than eat and occasionally make a daughter cell.
It can't build any ribosomes.
You can't do much of anything right now.
But a lot of people are excited by this path of science because we still don't really know
what our cells do, not what they do, but what goes into making our cells work.
Right now, there's just so many components that are just complete mysteries to human
scientists.
So if we can reverse engineer it, maybe we'll find out what some of those mystery genes do
within our cells.
So building cells in scratch lets us understand what.
what components are truly essential.
So that's reason number one.
There's also applications in medicine.
I mentioned that you can manufacture new drugs.
Maybe you can produce proteins that natural cells are struggling to make.
That leads to advances in cancer therapies.
There's also things like manufacturing industrial chemicals.
The ideas are endless when you can build the very building blocks of what makes us
and what makes things tick, living things tick.
So that is why we're going down this rabbit hole of synthetic cells,
because if you know how to build them, then you can build anything out of that.
And one of my first thoughts when I heard this and maybe yours too was like, uh-oh,
like, is this Dr. Frankenstein all over again?
We're making something out of scratch.
We're making something living.
Obviously, that could be used for good, but also could be used for bad.
It doesn't seem like scientists are especially worried about, say, making a bio weapon from
a spud cell or a synthetic cell at the moment because, as you mentioned, it can't make ribosom.
So it kind of dies out after five to ten generations.
It is pretty wimpy.
So if you wanted to build a bioweapon, there's just so many easier ways to do it than what Adelama
was doing in her lab in Minnesota.
So it doesn't seem like this is top of concern.
Also, they're saying, look, we're building this from scratch.
So we can put in safeguards and remind me of, say, an AI, where you're,
you're constructing it from first principles from the very beginning,
so you can kind of encode what you want into it.
So it doesn't seem like, you know, nuclear destruction or the apocalypse is particularly on
the menu when it comes to a spud cell, at least for now.
Yeah, the vision for Adamala and some of her colleagues is to create an open-sourced system
for biology, similar to what Linux did for computers.
So that is the future that they envision, where you can program cells to do exactly,
exactly what you want them to do. It is a fascinating, if maybe a little bit frightening future,
if you go down that rabbit hole, but a very cool development to come out of the science community
in Minnesota. Shout out Kyle Hagee. Let's move on to our winners of the weekend, the segment
where we pick two stories from the weekend that emerged from the holidays without a sunburn.
I won the pre-show game of who got stuck in the Detroit airport for the longest, so I'm up first.
And my winner of the weekend is bending spoons, the secretive Italian burrower.
Hathaway soup that went public on the NASDAQ recently.
Benning Spoon specializes in buying discarded internet companies like Eventbrite, AOL, and
Evernote, rebuilding them from the inside out and reaping the rewards.
Unlike private equity firms, it doesn't flip companies for a profit.
Instead, it works on improving operations, usually by firing old employees and installing its
own spooners, then collecting earnings over time.
It's been around since 2013, but has made three quarters of his acquisitions in the past.
three years, giving Wall Street an intriguing but untested business to gnaw on. And gnaw,
they did. Benning spoons would public just before the long weekend and shares popped as much as
40% before closing up about 24% above its IPO price, valuing the company at just under $23 billion.
Neil, the name is in reference to that scene from the Matrix, where Neo learns to open his
mind to some reality bending truce. Looks like investors were open to the idea of some Italians
inserting AOL into money-making business again.
First of all, win for the Italians.
They're not in the World Cup.
They must have so much FOMO watching all of us, have so much fun.
But they may not be in the tournament.
They did raise a couple billion dollars on the stock market.
One of Europe's biggest European companies' biggest IPOs in America recently.
I think it's pretty interesting to see how they're zagging where Wall Street and the rest of the tech industry is
zinging.
I mean, what was the biggest IPO before that was Space.
who wants to build space data centers and all the and humanoid robots and all this
futuristic stuff that's laden with AI.
And those have really been the biggest winners on the stock market.
And here comes an Italian company bending spoons that buys up AOL in these, you know,
Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 companies and tries to fix them.
And they're betting that people still have an attachment to these brands and that they'll
pay a subscription fee.
84% of their revenue comes from subscriptions.
And so they think that even if they jack up the price,
people still have loyalty to Eventbright and Evernote in all these companies or subscriptions
that you might have had 10 years ago, they want you to take a second look.
They think that they have two secret weapons.
The first secret weapon is the fact that they are just in a niche of the market that is
so overlooked right now because as, you know, AI, the boom, has attracted so much money
because venture capital dollars are looking at opportunity costs and say,
for every dollar that doesn't go into an AI company, that means every dollar is potentially not
multiplying in the way that I want it to. That leaves these older forgotten businesses sitting
around at pretty attractive prices, at least if you are a bending spoons who believes that they
can do their other secret weapon, which is just bring in their kind of super team of spooners,
their engineering workforce. That is one, cheaper because it's located over in Europe. And then two,
it is extremely selective. They had 800,000 applications and only made 286 hires last year. So
around 700 of these spooners run the businesses, run multiple of these businesses from the inside
out. So they think that if they can find these attractive businesses at attractive prices
and use the best workforce possible to make them more profitable, make them stickier for users,
then that you have a functioning business that, you know, could potentially become the next
Bursher Hathaway for a generation of, you know, tech-obsessed people.
Yeah, the CEO whose last name is Ferrari, of course, said that it was like if Google
and a PE company had a baby. The bearish argument against bending spoons is that we just don't
know much about how these acquisitions are performing. They're so really.
recent. It completed six acquisitions last year, five the year before. That's 11 out of the 50 that
they've made total and their finances have been pretty opaque before they went public. And so they
weren't really disclosing. Sure, we went in, we cut the entire staff and we jacked up prices and
people are paying a lot of money for AOL and event right now. We've had to take their word for it
because we just haven't seen this on a long enough time scale to see how they're actually
performing. So that'll be the one of the many big questions that bending spoons will have to answer.
And, you know, that's exactly what its stock price will probably track is as as they are public
company and they report quarterly earnings and everything becomes a little more transparent.
Sure, it sounds great to buy up all these flailing old businesses and turn them around.
But we just don't know whether that's been successful yet.
I mean, you can't put a number on how cool a name is, though.
So bending spoons, that's got to command at least some sort of multiple in the stock.
market. So that's a $23 billion company, if you ask me. All right, we're going to take a quick
break and come back with Neal's winner the weekend right after this. Toby, let's talk about
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slash discount slash mb50. My winner is philosophy majors who are finding their deep thinking
services surprisingly in demand in the age of AI. You know the jokes about philosophy majors employability.
How do you get a philosophy major off your front porch? You pay them for pizza. But maybe the
jokes on us because a number of AI companies have been hiring people with backgrounds in philosophy
as moral and ethical concerns become top of mind when constructing their models. David Chalmers,
a prominent philosopher of consciousness at NYU, told the New York Times, I think the demand for
philosophers with AI training is, if anything, outstripping the supply right now. It's an area
I encourage students to go into. I think these issues with AI will be front and center for a good
while. On a podcast last year, the co-founder of Google DeepMind said, I think we're going to need that,
talking about philosophers to help navigate society to that next step because I think artificial
general intelligence and artificial super intelligence are going to change humanity and the human
condition. The numbers back him up. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported that American
philosophy graduates are more likely to have jobs than peers who studied computer science.
In 2024, 7% of computer science grads were looking for work compared to just 5.1% who studied philosophy.
Toby, I think therefore I am employed.
These philosophy majors are being treated like all-star investment bankers
are receiving job offers before graduating.
They used to not receive any job offers after graduation,
but things have clearly changed.
What are these philosophers actually doing inside of these AI labs?
They are no longer just sitting on the sidelines
and maybe putting together window dressing for tech companies.
they are helping build the models themselves because when you are crafting an AI model, you have to do things like define behavioral rules.
You have to define the values that the AI model exhibits.
And to do that, it's helpful to have people who have studied something like that.
If you want to improve a model's reasoning, which are what these high-end models are described as as reasoning models, why don't you hire the very people who studied reasoning for a living?
So once you start digging into why this is happening, it does make a lot of sense that philosophy majors are not just being paraded around as a figurehead for, you know, a philosophical movement.
They are actually in the nitty gritty helping guide the creation and training of these models.
Yeah, perhaps the best example of this is maybe the superstar of the field right now, Amanda Askell, who is the in-house philosopher at Anthropic.
and anthropic, back before they became a $1 trillion company that's about to go public and was fighting with the White House, was known for their safety for their AI models.
And they even wrote a constitution, a 23-word, 23,000-word constitution that forms Claude's, quote, moral formation.
And Amanda Askell was integral.
She actually wrote, it's gone through a couple different iterations, but they borrow from Aristotle and these other philosophical principles.
to create a moral code for Claude.
And that has been, that has likely brought her untold riches, ever known to philosophers.
You can ask Claude how much she's making.
And it's, and Claude says that Amanda Askell is very likely a centa millionaire and plausibly
a paper billionaire because of how anthropic is doing in the private markets and it's about to go public.
So she could very well be the first billionaire philosopher.
I thought a very fascinating way that corporate America is using philosophy is that IBM has a model that they make that has settings that allow businesses to change outputs towards different philosophical priorities.
So maybe you're a business that is really big on social harmony within the company.
So you want your outputs to reflect something like that.
Maybe you're a business that like bending spoons, for instance, prioritize individual freedom.
you want each individual to be armed with the tools to change the outcome of the company.
You can do that within the models themselves.
So there are different ways to tune models based off of what your outcomes are,
but I've never really thought about it from a philosophical perspective
and how that might filter through an entire organization.
So this is not the last we're going to hear about companies figuring out what they want out of their workforce
and figuring out what their corporate philosophy is and maybe using philosophers to help them,
tune their models to reflect that. So shout out philosophers. They are more important in corporate
America than you probably imagine. Did you take a philosophy class ever? I had a roommate who took
philosophy classes, which is just as close to taking a philosophy class. I did have one my freshman
year of college, but it was more like religious philosophy. So I can't remember what I learned from it,
but I know that it was mind opening. What about you? No, I don't think I, I think I took a quantum class. But now,
obviously I regret it because I'm at your roommate's making a lot more money than you are right now.
He was a philosophy computer science double major, which feels uniquely positioned to capitalize
on the current moment that we're in. Yeah, I mean, we should add when we're talking about philosophy majors,
this is the kind that are getting employed at anthropic and nonprofits working in this space
is you have to be a PhD and many of them go through this one program at NYU or at Oxford,
which has like the future of Humanity Institute.
So you have to have philosophy background,
but also be very interested in AI topics as well.
So that is a pretty interesting career path,
philosophy, AI, pairing one of the oldest disciplines
with one of the newest.
It's Monday.
So here's what you need to know to stay ahead in the week ahead.
Wall Street had a lot to party about in the first half of the year
with the S&P rising 14.9% in Q2 for its best quarter since 2020.
But the vibes have gotten worse.
recently after major wipeouts from the once-reliable Magnificent Seven Tech Giants.
This week, investors will parse the minutes from the last Fed meeting for clues on
if and when the central bank could hype greats.
Then the new earnings season soft launches with Delta and Pepsi reporting later this week.
Yeah, the first half of the year was definitely driven by a handful of companies,
but it is kind of weird that it's not the Magnificent Seven.
It is the new Magnificent Seven of memory and chip makers like Micron.
So those were the big drivers, but when you have such as concentrated handful of companies doing that, you get a very swinging market.
It does look like healthcare and industrials and financials and other parts of the market have started to pull their weight a little bit, which means we've seen a broadening just beyond AI and tech, which is generally a good thing.
You don't want just a few companies deciding how everyone's portfolios go up and down.
But certainly that was the story for the first half of a year.
We'll see what the story of the second half of the year is.
at the World Cup, the USA, of course, takes on Belgium at 8 p.m. Eastern tonight in Seattle.
Balagan included, though. I'm just seeing that Belgium is going to try to appeal the suspension of his
suspension. Lots of drama. And as for the rest of the tournament, over the next two days, Portugal
plays Spain earlier, actually today. Argentina will play Egypt. And Switzerland plays Columbia
for the chance to join Morocco, France, Norway, and England in the quarterfinals.
Meanwhile, Wimbledon's later round run through the weekend when,
champions will be crowned.
And the tour to France started yesterday, if you want to feel bad about your cardio.
That out the World Cup this year keeps delivering storylines that seem to outdo each other.
Not only do we have the whole balligan incident, but we had Cape Verde going toe to toe
to toe with Argentina.
Then at that Mexico, England game last night, I really hope that everyone has had a chance
to catch at least some of the action because it's just been so exciting.
And then I do have a tour to France.
Fun fact, the Touradee de France actually started in Barcelona, Spain this year, which
sounds a little like a misnomer because it's called the Tour de France, but it's not actually
uncommon.
It kicks off in different countries a lot.
It's kicked off in Copenhagen, in Brussels, in Dusseldorf, in Florence.
So for non-cyclors, you probably don't know that the Tour de France doesn't actually start
in France, but this year it was the Tour de Barcelona to start.
Bartholona.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It doesn't feel like your full-time job is watching soccer now because I feel like I feel like I've watched so much soccer.
Like it's all I think about like I wake up and I think, okay, at 2 p.m. game, where am I watching now?
Okay, then there's a 5 p.m. game. I got to watch that somewhere, 8 p.m. game.
It's just completely taken over my life and just from conversations, I feel like it's taken over everybody's lives.
No, over this long weekend, it felt like watching sports was a full-time job.
We had 40 family members doing a family reunion, and we were rearranging things to catch the end of Argentina, Cape Verde, to catch Osaka playing Sabalanka.
It does feel like we're in a sports nirvana right now, and if this is my job, then it's not too bad of a job.
Okay, that is all the time we have.
Thanks for starting your morning with us and have a wonderful start to the week.
Toby, hope you make it home.
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