What Pablo Torre Found Out & Banning Artificial Superintelligence 9/4/26

: The long tail of the NBA’s shocking punishment of LA Clippers owner and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Podcaster Pablo Torre has been at the center of this story; he and Washington University’s Patrick Rishe discuss the latest reporting and the future options for the NBA. Rep. Greg Casar, the Texas Democrat who chairs the House progressive caucus, describes the need for legislation he’s introduced with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to ban artificial superintelligence, when concerns are high abouthacks by rogue agents (cnbc.com/2026/09/04/openai-agents-hijacked-ger…). Plus, diesel prices (cnbc.com/2026/09/04/diesel-price-record-high-u…) hit a new high, global bonds remain vulnerable (cnbc.com/2026/09/04/el-erian-government-bond-s…) and Vice President JD Vance wants to Fed to cut (cnbc.com/2026/09/03/vance-fed-interest-rates-t…) interest rates (cnbc.com/2026/09/04/treasury-bonds-yield-trump…).

Pablo Torre & Patrick Rishe -17:17
Greg Casar - 30:50

In this episode:
Pablo Torre, @PabloTorre (x.com/PabloTorre?lang=en)
Patrick Rishe, @PatrickRishe (x.com/PatrickRishe)
Rep. Greg Casar, (D-TX) @RepCasar (x.com/RepCasar)
Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick (x.com/BeckyQuick)
Andrew Ross Sorkin,@andrewrsorkin (twitter.com/andrewrsorkin)
Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie (x.com/Kramer_Katie)

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