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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 buyouts.

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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.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down what to expect from Nvidia's earnings report on Wednesday, as the stock is on track to snap its seven-session losing streak. Plus, Apple announces new Mac mini and Mac Studio desktop computers with major processor upgrades, and OpenAI says its new Jalapeno chips performed better than Nvidia's current lineup.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down what to expect from Nvidia's earnings this week, this as Bloomberg reports Nvidia customers have been notified about price hikes. Plus, SoftBank plans a record $6.3 billion retail bond sale to raise funds for its investment commitments to OpenAI, and Alibaba raises $10.2 billion to take the lead in the global AI race in what was Hong Kong's biggest follow-on offering.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow takes a look at Anthropic as the AI company expects to match or top the size of SpaceX’s record-setting IPO. Plus, sources say Broadcom is in talks to raise more than $60 billion in debt to help Anthropic and others secure chips and computing power, and all eyes are on Nvidia as the chipmaker reports earnings next week.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down the plunge in Alibaba's profit after the company increased its quarterly capex to almost $10 billion for AI. Plus, a look at how Meta has quietly become one of Microsoft's largest AI customers, and at defense tech startup Castelion's plans to boost production of its hypersonic missile systems.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow takes a look at the expanded partnership between Marvell and Google for chip development, with Marvell giving the search giant the right to buy as much as $12.2 billion in stock. Plus, SK Hynix plans to buy back $29 billion of shares and return more profits to investors to stabilize its stock after falling more than 50% in two months. And, startup Fuse raises $100 million to bring commercial nuclear fusion energy to the US and its allies.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Anthropic’s annualized revenue topping $65 billion as the AI startup moves closer to a potential IPO. Plus, OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens, aimed at giving 13- to 17-year-olds a safer way to use the chatbot for learning. And, after advanced AI models escaped controlled safety tests and accessed real-world systems, we speak with the CEO of the startup hired to stress-test them.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Anthropic's second-quarter revenue jump to more than $11.5 Billion, 14 times more compared to the same period a year ago. Plus, some family offices from around the world have built up billions of dollars of exposure to SpaceX; and Bedrock Robotics launched the first fully autonomous excavator in the US.

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Bloomberg’s Tim Stenovec takes a look at OpenAI, which is on track to generate annualized revenue of more than $40 billion, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025. Plus, how a New York City bill backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani could force Amazon to directly employ its delivery workers, and Meta's former chief AI scientist joins a new venture firm to invest in early AI startups.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down what could be Anthropic's biggest acquisitions yet: a $6 billion deal for AI startup Decart to help it squeeze more performance out of its computing infrastructure. Plus, CoreWeave warns investors that shifting from its exclusive use of Nvidia AI chips may cost time and money, and Cerebras' second-quarter earnings send its shares sliding after underwhelming growth.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down positive earnings results from CoreWeave and Supermicro, showing the booming AI market continues to bolster their sales. Plus, Silicon Data raises new funding and puts it to work on building independent benchmarks for AI compute. And, investors are betting AI music startup Suno can be the next Spotify despite concerns about theft and AI slop.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Intel's upsized $20 billion share sale, raising a third more than it was targeting when it announced the deal on Monday. Plus, sources tell Bloomberg Apple's glass-centric iPhone overhaul is still on track for 2027, even after an analyst's report said it had been cancelled. And, drone startup Neros raises $250 million in a funding round that triples its valuation.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Intel's decision to tap the market for $15 billion in fresh capital, betting renewed AI enthusiasm can help fund its push into chips and physical AI. Plus, Apple gets a rare downgrade from Jefferies on concerns about its iPhone roadmap, and Microsoft explains how AI agents are already transforming the way software gets built.

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Lyft CEO David Risher discusses the company's growth compared to Waymo, its plans to expand internationally and where Lyft is focused internally. He speaks with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech."

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down the latest jobs data, as US employers unexpectedly cut jobs in July and questions grow over AI’s role in the labor market. Plus, the CEOs of Twilio, Lyft and DraftKings join to discuss their latest earnings, and OpenAI’s first consumer device is taking shape - an AI smart speaker designed to look like a doughnut.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Alphabet's latest jumbo bond sale, receiving about $115 billion of orders after looking to raise $25 billion, signaling renewed investor appetite for debt tied to the AI boom after a recent selloff. Plus, a rough day for Western Digital (WD) after the storage giant's shares slid after a disappointing outlook. And, Sequoia's leaders Alfred Lin and Pat Grady join to discuss the future of the storied venture capital firm.

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Western Digital (WD) says the AI infrastructure buildout is creating sustained demand for data storage, even as investors reacted to a softer near-term outlook. CEO Irving Tan joins Bloomberg to explain why hyperscaler demand remains strong and how the company is increasing hard drive capacity. He says long-term supply agreements suggest AI's storage needs will continue to grow well into the next decade. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech."

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Uber Technologies Inc. shares slid by the most in six months after the company issued a bookings outlook that just met analyst estimates, compounding concerns from investors about the company’s ability to evolve in the robotaxi era. Total gross bookings — a key metric that includes ride hails, delivery orders and driver and merchant earnings but not tips — will be $58.25 billion to $60.25 billion for the quarter ending in September, the company said Wednesday. For more, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi spoke with Bloomberg Tech host Ed Ludlow.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down SpaceX's first earnings which revealed massive AI spending, an ambitious Starlink expansion and Elon Musk's latest bold prediction: a $100 billion annual revenue run rate by year-end. Plus, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi joins to discuss the company's earnings and its robotaxi ambitions, and Zoox CEO Aicha Evans weighs in on the company's big commercial milestone of starting to charge for rides in Las Vegas.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Palantir's blockbuster earnings results and strong commercial demand, with US commercial sales in the second quarter rising 149% from a year earlier. Plus, Apple exceeded $10 billion in annual sales in India for the first time last fiscal year. And, Palo Alto Networks doubles down on AI-powered cyber defense.

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Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue discusses OpenAI models' hack on Hugging Face last month and the future of AI regulation. Talking about the hack, Delangue, said that while companies want AI agents to think outside the box, they don't want AI to 'think outside the sandbox' and stay in the closed testing environment. Delangue also discussed government involvement in AI regulation and said that there is a risk that too much government intervention would result in a 'concentration of power' and said that is one of the biggest risks in the AI space. He talks to Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Alibaba's latest Qwen model, its biggest ever, claiming performance on par with Anthropic. Plus, AWS CEO Matt Garman joins after Amazon surpassed $3 trillion in market value for the first time, extending gains after a big cloud and AI-driven earnings report last week. And, we dive into the details of the new Apple Upgrade program and iPhone-maker's next era of growth as the company reinvents itself as a subscription giant.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Tim Cook's final Apple earnings call as CEO - a story of supply crunches, demand misreads and a tough outlook. Plus, Amazon's shares roar on AI progress, big spending and accelerating cloud growth. And, after OpenAI's breaches, Anthropic is now saying its own AI models breached three organizations during cybersecurity tests.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down big tech's earnings, with Microsoft soaring on cloud growth as its AI gets traction, while Meta plummets as Zuckerberg's AI pitch falls flat on high spending. Plus, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon joins after the company warns of component shortages and rising costs, and all eyes are on Apple as Tim Cook gives his last earnings report as CEO.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down why SK Hynix's Korean shares slumped even after reporting a six-fold jump in profit and raised capital spending to a record $31 billion. Plus, SoFi CEO Anthony Noto joins following the company's earnings topping Wall Street estimates, but showing high expenses; and big tech earnings are on the docket, with Microsoft and Meta coming next.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down the selloff in chip stocks dragging the Nasdaq 100 near correction territory, after signs of progress in China's chipmaking add to worries about the sustainability of the AI spending boom. Plus, SpaceX shares erase a fifth of their value since the record-setting debut of Musk's company, as investors start to avoid riskier tech firms. And, Apple briefly becomes just the second company ever to achieve a $5 trillion market valuation.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow speaks with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang amid renewed concerns about the AI industry’s circular financing deals. Plus, Apple aims to take on Meta in the smart glasses department. And, markets prepare for the biggest week of big tech earnings so far this year, with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon among those set to report.

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In this special bonus episode, Bloomberg Tech’s Ed Ludlow sits down with Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang for an exclusive interview. In their conversation, Huang says “this is the golden ages for Korea” after teaming up with SK Group to build more than 2 gigawatts of AI data centers on the Korean Peninsula. “Their semiconductor business is booming. Their industrial business is booming. You know, this is a country that has the ability to help the world build out the AI infrastructure.” Huang speaks to Ludlow after the CEO’s appearance at a Korean AI Summit and meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. Listen for their full conversation on Nvidia’s investment in South Korea and the latest in the AI space.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down an open letter signed by Big Tech's biggest names, making the case for open-weight AI. The tech CEOs argue that open-weight models are key to innovation, competition, and security. Plus, Intel is showing signs of an AI-driven comeback, forecasting stronger sales as its data center business accelerates; and Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman joins after announcing a partnership with AMD to challenge Nvidia, promising some of the fastest AI systems on the market.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Alphabet and Tesla's earnings as the Google parent company boosts its investment plans, while Tesla burns through cash to fund Elon Musk's AI ambitions. Plus, Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua will be stepping down after 27 years. And we speak with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna after a steep drop in mainframe sales weighed on the company's results.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down the news of OpenAI's advanced AI models unexpectedly hacking Hugging Face's system during testing, raising fresh concerns about AI safety. Plus, AMD is making a major AI bet by investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic, and Apple is readying a major overhaul to its Mac lineup beginning later this year, as Samsung makes its biggest consumer hardware push of the year at its Galaxy Unpacked event.

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Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow breaks down Nvidia's latest AI chip rollout, as the company says its next-generation processors are now shipping to customers and entering full production. Plus, a judge hits pause on Paramount's merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, throwing the blockbuster media deal into limbo. And, Sameer Dholakia of Bessemer Venture Partners joins to discuss the AI race's next phase, with Washington promising to scrutinize Chinese models as investors hunt for the next big winners.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down what Moonshot's Kimi K3 means for the race with OpenAI, Anthropic and the chipmakers powering it. Plus, SpaceX gears up for a second attempt at a Starship test flight later this week, and Andreessen Horowitz signs defense investor and military vet Connor Love to the firm's American Dynamism team.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow looks at Chinese startup Moonshot's latest model, which it says can compete with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic. Plus, Netflix shares tumble after the streaming giant warns of slowing sales growth for a second straight quarter, and Greylock - one of the oldest venture firms - just raised $1.5 billion for its 18th fund. We speak with partner Saam Motamedi.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down TSMC's results and the company's announcement of a higher commitment for its US buildout. Plus, he speaks with the CEO of autonomous maritime drone company Saronic and Texas Governor Greg Abbott about why Saronic is making a $3.2 billion bet on Texas. And, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen joins to discuss the company's bid for eBay.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down why an AI-fueled stock rout in South Korea spilled over into the US market Monday, sending SK Hynix ADRs falling in their second US trading day. Plus, Apple and OpenAI's AI rivalry enters the courtroom, with Apple filing a sweeping trade secrets lawsuit against the ChatGPT maker. And, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr joins to talk regulating space, and Palantir co-founder and 8VC managing partner Joe Lonsdale sits down with Ed to discuss his outlook for the defense tech sector.

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Bloomberg’s David Gura hosts a special edition of Bloomberg Tech as SK Hynix starts trading on the Nasdaq, in what is the biggest-ever US listing by a foreign company. He recaps Ed Ludlow's sit-down interview with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won from the Nasdaq, and dives deeper into the listing's impact on the rest of the US chip sector.

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