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Of her AI And Jordy already has the gong ready, so just tell us the fundraising announcement. I guess. We just managed to raise $1.1 billion. Awesome. He broke the gong. He broke the mallet.

In Wired, REESE Rogers says McDonald's built a 515 page dossier on me. It says I'll never stop eating there. He requested a copy of my data from the McDonald's loyalty program and received an extensive personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase. This is. Take me through it. Amazing. Pulling up the. The actual article. The actual article. McDonald's secret sauce is really commercial surveillance, says Jeff Chester, executive director at the center for Digital Democracy, a group that advocates for consumer protections. Privacy experts I spoke with said this level of detail may feel invasive, but it's fairly standard for how large companies in the US run their loyalty programs. The report contains specific pieces of personal information about you that were identified by searching McDonald's systems, which contain information about our customers. Tyler, you had the conclusion, what does McDonald's actually know about you? What does McDonald's know about an individual that they like hamburgers. That's basically the takeaway, right? Like the takeaway is like the number one. Most this guy likes hamburger product is a large Diet Coke, then the spicy snack rack, then the Grinch McShaker fry large. We should figure out other companies that, that have these types of, that have this type of data and request full reports. Yeah, we need our own reports. I would love to read. You want your 10,000 page report on what you like from Erewhon? Yeah. You're really going to go there Because I couldn't possibly know by looking at previous orders. Glass bottled water, McDonald's anthropic.

Okay, anyway, let's do, let's do some other stories. New bombshell reporting from the Wall Street Journal reveals that North Korea has built a secret workforce inside American companies, using stolen identities, AI and accomplices in the United States to cheat its way into remote jobs and funnel hundreds of millions of dollars back to Kim Jong Un's regime. It's a fascinating story. The the Wall Street Journal article is posted. It's a 30 minute documentary. They spent over a year investigating this. The FBI says that there are thousands of North Korean IT workers applying for jobs, applying for jobs across America. After a year long investigation, the Journal obtained a trove of leaked browser histories, emails, calendars and screen recordings from one cell of workers, providing a remarkable look at how the operation actually works. The North Koreans apply for jobs at enormous scale. One cell tracked by the Journal applied to more than a thousand companies over just three months, using AI at nearly every step. And in the documentary, they show a product that is basically cluly. They will leave a voice agent running while they're being interviewed in a technical interview. Give the answer. When asked about a particular technology, if they are proficient, they will simply have AI look up the answer. Give the answer to the interviewer who get the get the job. And in some cases they're using real Americans as frontmen. Basically, they will do the interview and then they will ship a remote laptop to say, hey, you're our new remote worker. You are qualified to work on our software engineering team at this small company. We'll send you a laptop and then you just collect a check, send half of it to the North Koreans and you don't have to do any work. So it's like passive income free money for you, the Americans. So you said they're real Americans, but they're not patriots. Yeah, that's what I'm hearing. The documentary is pretty gut wrenching. Like the individual who they talked to, who was participating in this, obviously is probably going to see some legal consequences for this. But it did seem like he had a very, very tough go and got into a very rough situation to be in that situation. It was certainly his first choice. Ryan in the chat has a hot take. Kim Jong Un is such a lovable rascal, it's hard to stay mad at him. Boo hoo hoo boo. The operation also relies on help from inside the United States. North Korean IT workers pay American facilitators, they're called facilitators, to host company laptops in the United States, allowing the actual workers overseas to remotely connect to them. While appearing to be employees working domestically. Also, the North Korean workers, they go to non extradition countries. So they'll go to China and Russia and a few other countries. And then from there they will be remoting into an American laptop. So it just looks like, okay, the web traffic is coming from. It's not coming from North Korea, but it's coming from a country where if the FBI says, hey, can you send us this person? They're a criminal. That country says, no way, we're not sending them to you. So for one job paying $75,000 a year, he said he and the North Koreans split, split the salary 50, 50. The workers also use stolen American identities to pass employment screenings, often juggling multiple identities simultaneously and holding down several jobs under each name. This all boomed during COVID and the remote work boom. And the scale of the operation is enormous. Some North Korean IT workers earn as much as $300,000 a year. The Treasury Department says North Korean says the North Korean government can seize as much as 90% of the wages earned by its overseas IT workers. And recently that these operations generated nearly $800 million in 2024 alone. Pretty, pretty big. So the Journal's 30 minute documentary titled North Korea's Secret U.S. workforce follows the operation in detail. It's a fascinating watch and I highly recommend that you check it out. So go take a look. I feel like it's important to ask, like, are they doing a good job? Like, Cause presumably they're not just like hacking. Wow, really? You're gonna steel man this. Okay, I see where your loyalties are. No, it's like there's like the skit where it's like, oh, we're going to rob the bank and we're going to get a job there, and over 30 years, they're going to deposit the money straight into our bank account every two weeks. And what happens at the end? Yeah, we walk out the front door. It's like, oh, they're like hacking and they're stealing American dollars by working at the companies. Yes. So there are sanctions. And because of those. Yeah, like, clearly America is not allowed to do business with North Korea in any capacity, including this one. So this is sanctioning, but like, seemingly it could be much worse. Right? They could just be like hacking the company. That's true, that's true. But they could also be doing both because once you let a North Korean IT worker in your systems, they could be planting all sorts of spyware. A very dangerous situation to be in. But yeah, a wild, wild, wild story. So everyone, if you're running a small business with some remote headcount, make sure to ask everyone to post something negative about Kim Jong Un every day. To prove their loyalty, I guess, or something. But it opens with a very, very funny clip of someone doing a remote zoom interview and asking someone to say something negative about Kim Jong Un. And the guy's like, oh, I can't hear you. I can't hear you. I can't possibly say that. Anyway, let me tell you about the New York Stock Exchange. Want to change the world, raise capital at the.

The clean sans serif font. I think it's time to move away from that, and I think they're taking risks here. I'll defend it, and I think it will grow on me. It's also not the, like. Instagram's been through a number of rebrandings and iterations, so we'll see. But speaking of Louis Vuitton, Louis Vuitton collaborated with Singer and created this insane Singer x Louis Vuitton collaboration for a 911 that looks like a handbag. They're calling it the most tacky car. I was. I didn't know where you were gonna go. I knew. I saw this all over the. All over the feed. I knew we were gonna be talking about it, but I didn't know where you'd sit. Yeah. So why is it tacky? It looks pretty cool. Yeah. Let's play this video. This isn't that tacky. I like the color. You don't like the color? The blue wheels are tacky. This part looks. Well, okay. The bag interior is just brutal. The stick is pretty cool. The hood with the straps, extreme parts. Sort of crazy. Yeah. This part, helmets. I. I don't hate the helmet. There's. There's two. There's. There's multiple cars. Yeah. There's another version that doesn't have blue wheels. It's a little more subdued, but it is. So to me, part of the reason why it looks like, you know, a monstrosity is that it feels like they just. It feels like AI slop irl. Oh, interesting. I was. And to me, it's not. It's not. Actually. Wouldn't surf with that surfboard, Jordy. But the problem is, like. The problem is, like, I think that if Porsche had collab with LV May, there would have been, like. It would have been toned down, like, a lot, and probably be. They did. Right. Didn't Porsche do a collab recently? And we asked. We talked about this. You're talking about the Toy Story collab. Oh, that one was really good. I like that one. But I'm going back further, But I'm just saying, like, this is not. This is not sanctioned by. This is like, to me, like a tacky, unauthorized collab. And I know exactly the kind of person that would. Would buy this. I'm happy for them. Or sorry this happened. This. When I saw this car, I was thinking that it feels less like something that you would drive and more like an art piece that you would put in a. In a house that has glass that you look through. Vladimir says that the singer looks like BDSM plus Hampton's inheritance, minus taste. Oh. Because of all the leather straps. Wow. That is wild. Maybe they just don't believe that taste is the new moat and they're just, like, fading that whole take. This is the one I was thinking of. Says, buckles on the hood. Lol. Perfect for a pilgrim. It was the Amy Leon Dore Ald Porsche 993 Turbo that we discussed and I think you were skeptical about as well. Not big on these collabs. Yeah. I think the main thing is they just went, like, 300% too hard. They did. Yeah. It is not subtle. It is very aggressive. How do I add this? Avery says the shift boot is pretty bad. Not gonna lie. Yeah. The ALD was much more subdued. Now that I'm looking at it, we're. We can pull up these images. Look at this. People are saying, next level gluttony, aspirated slop. People do not like it. Well, it's not for everyone. It feels more like an art piece that you put in a luxury apartment that has glass between a seating area like a poker room and a garage. Like something that you look in Dubai. Yes, probably. Oh, it's Chubai. That's what you're referring to? Yes. This is Chubai. Yes. Okay, I understand now, but. Yeah. Pull up the pictures of the ALD Porsche that was on the official Porsche YouTube channel. So must be real. Someone else says that's the ugliest display of good craftsmanship I've seen in years. Yeah. What they've accomplished clearly, was incredibly difficult, and they executed their plan. Plan seemingly very well. It's just that the plan was. Was. Was way too much. Okay, pull up the ALD Porsche 993 Turbo collab video, because I want you to see. I want you. I want you review. You gotta pick one. You're either driving. Driving Louis Vuitton or ald. Which one you going with, Jordy? I mean, this was a actual collab between ALD and Porsche, and it was much, much, much more subtle. It was more subtle and very well done. And the creative is well done. Yeah, I thought this was. I don't own anything from. From ALD to my knowledge. I've never been a part of. Been a part of that brand. But I. I liked this collab a lot. Okay. Within this video. So you're going ALD over Louis Vuitton over LV. Correct. You're going ALD over LV. If you had to pick between those 200%. Within this video, are you going ALD 911, or are you going flock of sheep? Which one would you take? If they're. If you're offered, you can either have the flock of sheep or the Porsche. How many sheep? Look at how many sheep there are. There's at least 20. Look at those. I think you got to go. I think you gotta go with the sheep. You gotta go with the sheep. Okay. I don't know. I don't know how much, honestly. I'm hoping that the flock is quite a bit bigger. But if you throw in the sheepdogs and with the sheep, I think you gotta go with the sheep. Okay. How? Michelle says sheeps are useless. Trey says those are nice sheep. I agree. They look like fantastic sheep. Okay. We're gonna find out how much a flock of sheep costs. Ben says that was a very wolf answer. Okay. About 50 ordinary sheep in California, you're gonna spend about $20,000. That's for 48 breeding. So you're saying I should take. Okay. So you're just saying I should take the ald. Put it on, bring a trailer, and then you can buy 500 sheep. A billion sheep. Not a billion sheep. No, but I would love her up. I would love her up on the flock. You're leveraging up. Okay. Let me tell you about codex. Codex is a powerful work.

Thanks for having me. Thanks for hopping on the show. Welcome. Congratulations on the fundraise, but maybe let's go back in time. Tell us a little bit about your history and journey to starting River AI. And Jordy already has the gong ready, so just tell us the fundraising announcement. I guess. We just managed to raise $1.1 billion. He broke the mallet. The chosen one. You are chosen one. Okay, so see if it works out. So, thank you, guys. I started my career as a physicist. I was really interested in understanding the universe, but.