Billionaire investor Chamath cuts straight through CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin with a raw reality check he doesn't see coming on live TV.
Sorkin was pressing the panel on the "empirical math," arguing the economy looks worse since Biden left office.
Chamath told him straight up to "thank the lucky stars" that under Trump, we have the luxury to debate economic numbers at all, instead of the "19 pronouns" we used to state before our name.
CHAMATH: "I think it's important to take a step back and realize you're making a very specific, numerically grounded comparison about what your opinion of President Trump is."
SORKIN: [Defensive] "It's not my opinion."
CHAMATH: "I'm just saying you can make a numerical comparison. Imagine if we were sitting here and we'd have to first declare 19 pronouns, and we'd have to talk about the DEI. I'm here because I'm a Sri Lankan immigrant that grew up on welfare. I have to tell you my whole sob story. Where we were going was not a place that was oriented around productivity. It was around THEATER!"
SORKIN: "I'm not disagreeing with that."
CHAMATH: "I'm saying you have some valid points about where GDP could be or could not be. You should thank the lucky stars that [numbers] are what we're debating right now."
SORKIN: "And that's a fair argument on that side, too!"
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The Government-Backed Virtua Fighter Crossroads: The Real Reason Behind METI’s IP360 Funding and the Biomechanical Reality of Motion Capture
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) recently selected titles for its IP360 investment initiative to scale Japanese gaming IPs globally. Alongside elite projects from Square Enix, Konami, and Koei Tecmo, Sega’s Virtua Fighter Crossroads has secured substantial state backing.
While general audiences view this through a financial lens, analyzing it from a real-world martial arts and motion-capture perspective reveals a profound structural shift. This government boost ensures Sega possesses maximum capital to hire top stunt teams and world-class martial arts actors to record flawless, high-fidelity physical data, mirroring the heavy investment seen in Tekken 8.
To understand the magnitude of this reality, look at Sega’s historical DNA. In 1994, when developing Shun Di’s Drunken Master style for Virtua Fighter 2, Sega’s staff famously traveled to mainland China to study traditional kung fu directly from legitimate masters. They brought high-level martial artists with exceptional skeletal alignment back to Japan to record their physical mass shifts using optical sensors. From its inception, the series rejected fabricated game-like animations in favor of authentic anatomical logic.
With the new funding, Sega’s Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio can take this philosophy to its absolute limit. In the latest trailer, the masked fighter demonstrates an instant, zero-latency double-palm strike—a precise execution of the explosive power found in Southern Chinese styles like Hung Ga's Seurng Pek Cheung. Because the studio is scanning elite physical performers, the screen perfectly captures the precise muscle relaxation and root stabilization necessary to produce real kinetic force.
However, anyone with decades of active combat experience can instantly spot the game-centric compromises, or minor oversights, in the choreography. The trailer shows the fighter delivering this zero-latency strike directly to the opponent’s face while maintaining a standing posture with one hand behind his back. Anatomically, a short-range strike designed to propagate internal shockwaves must target the center of mass, such as the solar plexus, where the kinetic energy cannot escape. Striking the face in a neutral stance simply causes the opponent’s neck to flex backward, safely absorbing and dissipating the energy. It is an aesthetic choice for visual impact, not combat efficiency.
Yet, Sega deserves immense praise for their absolute refusal to rely on wire-action physics. Crossroads honors the laws of gravity, capturing the heavy, grounded weight of real combat. The friction, the footwork, and the structural alignment remain remarkably true to real-world physics.
This METI funding news represents the resurrection of Sega’s original, uncompromising obsession with true martial arts logic, now amplified by a massive budget to compete with the industry's absolute best. For veterans relying solely on 20-year-old frame data memorization, the sheer volume of realistic telegraphing, weight shifts, and biomechanical indicators in this new system will be overwhelmingly difficult to process on Day 1.
Real-world physical logic and elite-tier game knowledge scale infinitely, whereas simple data memorization hits a ceiling. As an active Wing Chun instructor with over 40 years of training, combined with my current status as a Tekken 8 God of Destruction, I can clearly see how this refined system will reward pure human performance over old-school habits. When Crossroads launches, I will break down the absolute truth of these combat mechanics and demonstrate the real physical execution on my YouTube channel. The countdown to the ultimate reality check has begun.
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AI in the enterprise has a messaging problem.
The industry sold transformation and delivered meeting summaries.
On this episode of Bit by Bit: Leadership Conversations, Tom Butler, Vice President of WW Commercial Portfolio and Product Management at
@Lenovo, explains why enterprise AI adoption has stalled, and why the real shift is not about saving people time. It is about reshaping what they do with it.
We get into workflow over personas, why “no one cares” about the NPU, and his AI Knights of the Round Table approach to spreading what actually works across an organization.
00:16 PC Market Meets AI
02:41 Rollercoaster Cycles And Refresh
05:05 Workflow First Buying Shift
06:37 Different Sectors Different Speeds
08:51 Storytelling Missteps And Value
10:32 Hybrid AI Edge Versus Cloud
14:39 Security Governance Reality Check
16:40 Culture Shift Outcomes Over Devices
21:15 Middle Management Friction
24:59 Rebuilding Trust With Transparency
30:09 IT Buying Gets More Surgical
33:27 Advice And AI Knights Playbook
37:23 Closing Thoughts And Thanks
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The Reality Check The challenges were substantial:
1. Building a complete Agent system is harder than it looks (User interaction, context engineering, etc.).
2. The model has to understand and use private components it has never seen.
3. We needed real-time browser previews of the generated code.
4. We needed auto-repair capabilities if the code failed.
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