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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Nvidia's decision to boost the size of its share buyback plan by a record $150 billion, taking the total amount to $235 billion. Plus, a milestone for SpaceX's Starship rocket reaching orbit for the first time after the mission briefly looked at risk because an engine failed during ascent. And, Meta taps MongoDB's president and CEO to lead a new AI platform...

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Bloomberg’s Tim Stenovec breaks down Anthropic's $11.6 billion contract with Akamai for AI computing power - the largest deal in Akamai's history. Plus, President Trump calls his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping "very productive" with little to show for it; and Microsoft steps back from the race to build a personal chatbot by merging the consumer and workplace versions of its...

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Oracle's latest move to protect itself from mounting costs on a massive New Mexico data center facing regulatory setbacks and local opposition. Plus, Meta comes out with a new palm-sized device for using its popular new AI assistant, Muse; and all eyes are on President Trump and China's Xi Jinping as they meet in the White House and discuss AI. See omnystudi...

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Anthropic's new faster, cheaper AI model as the startup tries to stay ahead of rivals before its IPO. Plus, Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas discusses SpaceX, Tesla and the robotics boom, and Bloomberg reports Apple aims to take on Whoop with its own screenless health and fitness tracker. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Alibaba's new AI chip, an accelerator to compete with Nvidia and underpinning a massive expansion of data center capacity in coming years. Plus, he sits down with Gagan Biyani, Founder and CEO of the Horowitz Andreessen Academy - Silicon Valley's alternative college for the AI era. And he sits down with AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li to talk about the AI safety debat...

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down what to expect from the Trump-Xi summit later this week, with AI's role anticipated to be a major part of the agenda for those upcoming talks. Plus, Bloomberg reports Paramount reached a settlement with California and other states suing to block its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery; and as data shows more disruption to US data centers, we get t...

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Anthropic's finding that its Claude chatbot is leading 26% of its AI research and development, even as the global debate around AI heats up. Plus, SoftBank is closing out the week with nearly $21 billion in potential fresh borrowings as it builds out its AI financing capacity, and Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller discusses the race to build the infrastructure pow...

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down OpenAI's new plan to track when things go wrong after revealing new cases of its AI models going off-script. Plus, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and machine learning pioneer Andrew Ng weigh in on the global AI safety debate; meanwhile in Silicon Valley, the immediate fear is missing out on the money. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Mark Zuckerberg's call for AI labs to rely on independent evaluators and advisers to ensure models are safe. Plus, OpenAI is said to be in early talks with investors about a new funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker at more than $1.2 trillion, and Impulse Space CEO Tom Mueller discusses the company's $308 Million Series D Extension and the future...

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down calls from AI for a slower pace at the frontier, arguing safety needs time to catch up with increasingly powerful models. The debate is reaching Washington and Wall Street, with AI-linked stocks under pressure as investors weigh what slower development could mean for the spending boom. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Oracle's latest results and how they are helping ease concerns around the company's massive AI infrastructure buildout. Plus, the debate around AI's societal risks and the backlash against the global data center build-out grow louder. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses Apple's iPhone Duo with Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, from its anticipated reception with consumers to what it means for Apple's new era under CEO John Ternus. Plus, the AI chip race is moving to inference, and Elon Musk's Boring Co. reaches a $23 billion valuation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow is live from Apple Park in Cupertino for what could be the iPhone Maker's most consequential product launch in years, with John Ternus making his first major public appearance as Apple CEO - and all eyes on Apple's highly anticipated first foldable iPhone, marking the biggest change to the iPhone's form factor in almost twenty years. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

Bloomberg’s Riley Griffin breaks down Qualcomm's deal signing up Amazon as a data center chip customer, an agreement that will span "multiple generations." Meanwhile, another deal falls apart after Anthropic decides against acquiring AI startup Decart AI; and all eyes are on Apple as the company kicks off its product launch tomorrow, with its foldable iPhone a decade in the making. See omnys...

Bloomberg’s Lisa Mateo takes a look at Anthropic as it finalizes an expansion of its revolving credit facility to $15 billion before its anticipated public filing. Plus, a look at the latest US jobs report showing the IT sector shed 23,000 jobs in August; and Apple is kicking off the John Ternus era with what could be the biggest run of new devices in its history. See omnystudio.com/listener...

OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman discusses the rollout of GPT-6 Astra, the company's latest AI model, and says the tech industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of AI. Speaking with Bloomberg Tech co-host Ed Ludlow as heard live on Bloomberg TV and Radio, Altman also says he assumes the company will go public one day.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down what earnings from Broadcom, Snowflake and HPE tell us about the strength of the AI boom. Plus, Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf joins to discuss Nvidia's $13 billion acquisition deal for the AI startup; and self-driving tech startup Wayve reaches a deal with Uber to offer robotaxi rides in London. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Nvidia's advanced talks to acquire AI startup Hugging Face in a $14 billion deal. Plus, Dell shares jump after the company boosted its annual sales forecast by $25 billion due to surging demand for servers to run AI tasks, and Uber cuts 10% of its staff globally to streamline its core engineering, science and delivery groups. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Anthropic's $35 billion computing deal with Nvidia-backed cloud provider Lambda as the AI startup looks to expand its AI capacity. Plus, Elon Musk predicts AI will increase the global economy by up to 30%, and John Ternus officially takes over as Apple CEO as the company gets ready for a new product unveil next week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Nvidia's $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek, deepening its collaboration with the Taiwanese chipmaker. Plus, today is Tim Cook's last day as CEO of Apple before John Ternus takes the reins tomorrow, and all eyes are on Anthropic as it prepares to file publicly in the coming weeks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion in MediaTek, deepening collaboration with the Taiwanese chipmaker at a time when it’s working to persuade more companies to build chips that plug into its dominant data center ecosystem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai join Bloomberg Tech's Ed Ludlow to discuss the deal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bloomberg’s Tim Stenovec zeroes in on Jackson Hole after Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh delivered his first address at the Symposium. Plus, a US judge rules that the Trump administration must lift its ban on Anthropic's AI tech for federal agencies. And, a consortium of Advent and Stripe decided to abandon its pursuit of PayPal - a deal that would have ranked as one of the biggest-ever leveraged b...

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Nvidia's prediction of a 70% revenue growth next fiscal year, far exceeding analyst estimates. Plus, Salesforce shares jump after giving an outlook for strong revenue expansion, and deepening its ties with Anthropic. And Hugging Face comes out with its newest robot: a duck that can walk, talk, and roller-skate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...