Broadcast excerpt·WED, 02 SEPT 2026 · 18:08:16–18:08:55 SAST
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Meanwhile, Musk has warned of a looming power shortage, saying that the United States needs to rapidly expand electricity generation to keep up the pace with China. We are seeing, in fact, significant productivity gains from artificial intelligence and will see very dramatic gains in productivity from robotics. And I think humanoid robotics will be just an incredible change.
Just to give you some sense of scale here, I think AI will probably increase the global economy by 20 to 30 percent. That's my rough rough estimate. Meaning on the order of 20 to 30 trillion dollars per year. Well, on that note, let's take a look at your financial indicators. The rand is trading at 16 rand 4 cents to the US dollar, 21 rand are 66 cents to the pound sterling, and 18 rand are 60 cents to the euro. Gold is trading at 4,369.
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