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- Bailey Lipschultz, Bloomberg News Senior Equities Reporter, discusses Cerebras Systems shares jumping 68% in its trading debut after raising $5.5 billion in the year’s largest IPO. This illustrates investors’ surging appetite for artificial intelligence data centers and the chips running them.

-- Anurag Rana, Bloomberg Intelligence Technology Analyst, discusses tech. Figma gave an outlook for revenue in the current period that topped analysts’ estimates, touting early traction from charging users directly for AI features. Apple's partnership with OpenAI has become strained, with OpenAI preparing possible legal action due to the AI startup not seeing the expected benefits from the deal.

-Sid Philip, Bloomberg Chief Correspondent for Global Aviation, discusses Boeing appearing to have secured an order from China during US President Donald Trump's visit to the country, but details on numbers, aircraft type, and timing are unclear.

- Randall Williams, Bloomberg Business of Sports Reporter, discusses the top business sports stories. Sheldon Adelson’s son-in-law, Patrick Dumont, has big plans for the Dallas Mavericks and the city. Also, a group led by Silver Lake executive Egon Durban is acquiring 25% of the Las Vegas Raiders, according to people familiar with the matter.
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- Ryan Vlastelica, Bloomberg Equities Reporter, discusses earnings from Cisco Systems. Cisco Systems jumped by the most in more than 14 years after the company delivered a better-than-anticipated sales forecast and announced plans to cut thousands of jobs, an attempt to focus on the fast-growing AI market.

- Dan Ives, Global Head of Technology Research at Wedbush Securities, discusses the Trump/Xi summit and how it impacts tech. President Trump has landed in China for the much anticipated summit with Xi where the two are scheduled to meet on Thursday and Friday, arriving at a critical moment for the tech cycle as geopolitics, chip export policy, and surging demand for compute are colliding, making the outcome critical for Nvidia, hyperscalers, and the greater tech ecosystem.

- Jody Lurie, Bloomberg Intelligence Credit Analyst, discusses the latest Bloomberg Intelligence travel survey. According to BI: At 65%, personal-safety concerns peaked in BI's US travel survey conducted April 17-28 amid the Middle East conflict, US policies towards visas and other geopolitical tensions. This may be affecting how much people travel internationally, as seen in a decline in respondents from the survey conducted in November.
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- Ed Ludlow, BTech Co-Anchor, discusses Anthropic being is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing at a valuation of more than $900 billion. The round is expected to close as soon as the end of this month, but the deal is not finalized and no term sheet has been signed.

-Tarun Raisoni, CEO at Gruve AI, discusses the impact of AI on real estate. Gruve is an enterprise AI services platform that helps businesses move from AI experimentation to full-scale deployment. Its five-step framework covers strategy, data readiness, model development, security, and governance. By using AI agents to automate tasks like CRM migration and security monitoring, Gruve streamlines operations and integrates directly into client systems to deliver scalable, engineering-driven solutions with software-level efficiency.

-Ned Segal, Chief of Housing and Economic Development for the City and County of San Francisco, discusses leveraging partnerships in SF/real estate. Topics include what has changed for a small business owner trying to open their doors in this city today versus two years ago, office demand, and where SF stands with the current AI cycle. Ned is a passionate San Franciscan. He previously served as CFO at Twitter, SVP of Finance for Intuit’s Small Business Group, and a board member of Tipping Point Community.
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-Cecilia D'Anastasio, Bloomberg Video Game Reporter, discusses EBay rejecting a $56 billion takeover offer from GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen, describing the unsolicited bid as “neither credible nor attractive.” EBay’s board turned down the offer due to “uncertainty” around the financing plan, operational risks, and GameStop’s governance, among other factors.

-Lily Meier, Bloomberg Retail Reporter, discusses Under Armour. Shares sank after its guidance for this year missed Wall Street projections, weighed down by exiting a partnership with NBA star Stephen Curry and a financial hit from the conflict in the Middle East. Annual revenue will decline slightly, but it would have been little changed if the company still had the deal with Curry, the sporting-goods maker said Tuesday. Analysts on average projected a gain of about 2%.

-Sid Philip, Bloomberg Chief Correspondent for Global Aviation, discusses the Bloomberg Big Take story: “Boeing Bets Comeback on Trump, China and an Elusive New Plane.” Boeing’s new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, must soon decide how to replace the workhorse 737 aircraft, as the company tries to regain public trust after a series of sometimes deadly accidents. He's also trying to land a big sales deal in China, with Trump's help. Both the sale and the new plane will be key to reviving the aerospace giant.

-- Gautam Mukunda, Lecturer at Yale School of Management and Bloomberg Opinion contributor, discusses his Bloomberg Opinion column: “AI Isn’t Built for Bar Weather’s Black Swan Era.” AI models are matching or outperforming physics-based models in medium-range weather forecasting and are faster and require less computational infrastructure. These models struggle with extrapolating outside their training data, which can lead to failures when they encounter unusual weather patterns.
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-Carmen Reinicke, Bloomberg Equities Reporter, discusses Cerebras Systems seeking to raise as much as $4.8 billion in its initial public offering, offering 30 million shares for $150 to $160 each.
The company's IPO has drawn orders for more than 20 times the number of shares available, and is expected to price on May 13.

-Catarina Saraiva, Bloomberg News Federal Reserve Reporter, discusses the Bloomberg Big Take story: “Powell Exits With Legacy Built on Central Bank Independence.” Jerome Powell's term as Federal Reserve Chair ends on May 15. He will, however, remain a member of the Board of Governors until January 31, 2028, much to the chagrin of President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly called for lower interest rates and sought to remove Powell over the Fed's monetary policy stance. Bloomberg looks at some of the highlights to his legacy.

-Sam Fazeli, Bloomberg Intelligence, Director of Research for Global Industries and Senior Pharmaceuticals Analyst, discusses the latest in the biotech sector. President Donald Trump plans to fire Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, according to a person familiar with the matter. Repatriation flights of passengers aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak began on Sunday.

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