E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompe...

(0:00) Bestie intros (1:19) Chip stocks crash, Leopold Aschenbrenner's $20B fund gets margin called (20:20) China's advantage and green shoots for the US economy (34:12) Frontier Labs say "SLOW DOWN AI" (1:01:15) Why are frontier labs "burning books"? (1:14:45) Socialism Corner: ...  Show more

(0:00) Intro: Humanoids, Robots, & AI+ (0:57) ANYbotics' Dr. Péter Fankhauser: Why ANYbotics Bet the Company on Four-Legged Robot Dogs, Not Humanoids (13:18) Dr. Péter Fankhauser: China's Armed Robot Dogs Are "Stupid and Risky" — Inside the Terminator Debate (15:01) NEO's Bernt B ...  Show more

Episode 703: Neal and Toby recap big tech earnings coming from Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet. Then, the Fed makes its 2nd rate cut for the year as well as ending the effort to reduce its balance sheet, all while acknowledging the data blackout from the government shutdown. Also, ...  Show more

Carl Quintanilla, Sara Eisen and David Faber began the show with stocks in the red as higher yields continued to bite. Sara broke down the morning’s data – ADP & Jobless Claims – ahead of a big interview with Outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and the team discussed the ...

Bloomberg Technology Co-Host Ed Ludlow, Bloomberg News AI Reporter Rachel Metz and Crawford Del Prete, President at International Data Corp break down the news of the firing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the evolving drama for the company and the tech industry. Laurence Kotlikoff, ...  Show more

Scott and Ed open the show by discussing the U.S.’s GDP growth, Reddit’s earnings, Eli Lilly’s third quarter drug sales, and xAI’s new funding round. Then Scott and Ed break down big tech’s earnings and discuss how the tech companies are using capital as a weapon. They also exami ...  Show more