“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world's second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, Yvonne Man and Annabelle Droulers give global investors unique insight, delivering in-depth discussions with the newsmakers who matter. (Source: Bloomberg)
In an interview filmed on October 14, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended engaging with China and criticized US chip restrictions. He has since acknowledged having an affair, and US intelligence officials reportedly suspect the woman was recruited by Beijing to influence him. Nvidia’s board is now investigating, and Huang said he would "cooperate fully." He spoke with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang for an upcoming episode of The Circuit. (Source: Bloomberg)
On Bloomberg This Weekend, Bloomberg News Markets producer Anthony Stephens says Asian investors are assessing the fallout from the AI selloff as hedge funds cut exposure and uncertainty grows over US data-center policy. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Stephens explains why the timing of AI infrastructure investment could determine the next winners and losers across technology markets. (Source: Bloomberg)
Rep. Josh Gottheimer disclosed new AI-linked stock purchases months after voting for a congressional trading ban, as Democrats prepare to regulate the industry.
Fans trying to access latest releases are being priced out in a cut-throat market driven by crypto-like hype The runaway demand for Pokemon cards is because they are being hyped “like crypto”, according to one young fan who had spent the night queueing outside a London store to make sure he did not miss out on the latest card release. Before its 10am opening on Friday, the line outside the pop culture store Forbidden Planet in central London snaked past five others and, despite its strict sales policy, was probably “50/50” fans and resellers, said Kai, who had been there since 3am. Continue reading...
Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." A blowout jobs report fuels expectations for another Fed rate hike, even as Wall Street reels from a nearly $4 trillion tech selloff and mounting questions about the AI trade. Plus, Anthropic's IPO prospects and valuation reset, BlackRock CIO Rick Rieder explains the AI unwind and emerging credit opportunities, Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, discusses inflation and Fed policy, and Greg Ebel, CEO of Enbridge Energy, weighs in on the growing energy demands of AI infrastructure. (Source: Bloomberg)
Democrats erased the GOP’s trifecta edge and gained new power over energy policy.
The offer to let schools decide whether students can use AI tools comes with a catch
Data centers can be assets to energy resources and the power grid, says Arushi Sharma Frank, founder and CEO of Luminary Strategies. The former US energy market policy lead at Tesla discusses how the midterm results could impact the AI buildout, and why Elon Musk's plan to put data centers in space offers diversification for the chip sector. She joins Carol Massar on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)
DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google's AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.
When Donald Trump began his second term as president, Silicon Valley gratefully embraced moral nihilism. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more collectively donated millions to Trump's inauguration fund to ensure his favor in a new era of gangster tech regulation. Meta overhauled its content policy to allow calling gay people mentally ill and women property. Elon […]
Plus, a reckoning for tech executives and the data center build-out
With the US midterms effectively out of the way, investors have more clarity about future policy. For the technology sector, it’s a clearing event that switches the focus back to fundamentals.
“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world's second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, Yvonne Man and David Ingles give global investors unique insight, delivering in-depth discussions with the newsmakers who matter. (Source: Bloomberg)
China’s upgraded free-trade agreement with Peru took effect Sunday, expanding rules covering areas including e-commerce, global supply chains, competition policy and the environment, according to the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing.
Asia’s AI-heavy stock markets face a new US policy wildcard in the midterm elections, with the outcome potentially reshaping the tech trade and sectors from clean energy to defense.
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With this control, publishers can apply their AI training preferences across multiple AI companies, instead of setting them individually. The shared "policy token" signal […]
Ghost hunting has changed in recent years due to AI chatbots, and paranormal enthusiasts are concerned Ghost hunting is a tech-heavy pursuit. When Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting investigate haunted locations, they’re loaded up with software of their own design, such as an app that assigns signals from a phone’s sensors to different words in a database. In the age of ChatGPT, the ghost-hunting pair is probing the world of AI. They describe one of their latest inventions, an app called GhostTube Seer , as “the world’s first AI Ghost Hunting tool”. In the hands of paranormal investigators, scientific tools like EMF meters (used to detect electromagnetic fields) are repurposed to identify changes and anomalies that they believe indicate supernatural activity. Seer is, in many ways, simply an expansion of that practice, another way to scan an empty room and believe that something may be there. The app, which requires a paid monthly subscription, has more than 1m downloads, according to its Google Play store listing . But for others in the ghost hunting world, AI is an unwelcome presence. Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, AI-generated ghost stories and images of the supernatural have flooded online spaces, so much so that popular forums like the r/Nosleep subreddit , meant for scary stories, have implemented a strict policy against AI-generated material. Continue reading...
Reliance on the island for AI chip production puts it among America’s top foreign policy interests.
