In short
The episode is about how AI is being pushed into government, business, and markets, plus major AI-company moves. Topic 1: America.gov. President Trump launches an AI-powered “one stop shop” website to answer questions about federal services (e.g., assistance eligibility, national park permits). An executive order mandates every agency to interface with it. Key claim: it’s meant to streamline bureaucracy and make the public comfortable with AI, amid safety/regulation concerns. Sebastian Malaby (Council on Foreign Relations) says it’s worth trying but notes the Obama healthcare portal crashed; he also highlights the tension between accelerating AI and slowing for safety, pointing to Anthropic’s Dario Amodei attending the White House lunch. Topic 2: Industrial innovation. Ford CEO Jim Farley, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer discuss “LIFT Michigan,” a public-private launchpad for onshoring advanced manufacturing and workforce training, framed as supply-chain resiliency. Topic 3: AI industry updates. Anthropic warns of existential risk in its IPO prospectus and plans massive spending; OpenAI holds back Astra 6.1 and adds safeguards after hacking incidents; AMD acquires World Labs (Fei-Fei Li) for $8.2B to advance “physical AI” and open ecosystems.
Guests
Sebastian Malaby; Jim Farley; Jamie Dimon; Gretchen Whitmer; Dario Amodei (mentioned as attending); Fei-Fei Li; Lisa Su; plus referenced leaders (Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk).
Notable examples
Obama healthcare portal failure; Anthropic existential-risk prospectus; OpenAI Australia hacking apology; AMD/World Labs “spatial intelligence” and open ecosystem/optionality.
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Chapters
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2:14 to 4:32
Discussion about President Trump's launch of America.gov and its implications.
“to humanity in its prospectus ahead of its IPO, according to reports.”
AI's Role in Government Efficiency
4:32 to 6:28
Exploration of how AI can streamline government services and communication.
“So, Ed, we should say there's an expectation that none of that's actually going to pass by the midterms, let alone after it, amid what is the administration bolstering its embrace of the technology.”
Challenges and Opportunities of AI in Washington
6:28 to 11:01
Insights on the balance between AI advancement and safety amidst the political landscape.
“As we look at some of the data and the polling as we get closer to the midterm elections, it's very clear that the White House wants to put it front and center and get the American public comfortable.”
Ford's Innovation Partnership in Michigan
11:01 to 14:01
Interview about Ford's initiative to boost local manufacturing and innovation.
“Sebastian Malaby, Council on Foreign Relations.”
The Importance of Advanced Manufacturing in Michigan
14:01 to 14:25
Learn why advanced manufacturing is crucial for Michigan's identity and security.
“So I think markets will take care of a lot of it.”
Michigan's Role in the North American Auto Industry
14:25 to 15:28
Discover Michigan's longstanding ties with Canada in the auto industry.
“Why is this the right place to start this?”
Supply Chain Resiliency and Economic Policies
15:28 to 16:49
Understand the interplay between supply chain resilience and U.S. economic policies.
“Well, I want to first and foremost say the Canadians have been tremendous allies and partners of ours here in Michigan for a long time.”
Addressing the Skilled Trades Crisis
16:49 to 19:11
Explore the skilled trades gap and solutions being implemented in Michigan.
“It's predicated on having the best economy in the world.”
Economic Pressures on Small Businesses
19:11 to 20:48
Learn about the pressures small businesses face amid rising interest rates.
“but that's not what we're going to do in Detroit this week.”
Investments in Security and Resiliency Initiatives
20:48 to 22:36
Find out about the substantial investments in security and resiliency initiatives.
“And that may make it harder for some people.”
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Innovation and Competition in the Auto Sector
22:36 to 24:20
Delve into the competitive landscape of the auto industry and innovation.
“You know, it's the denial of the problem that really puts us in trouble.”
The Power of American Capital Markets
24:20 to 26:04
Understand how American capital markets drive innovation and economic growth.
“They out-innovated, I think, companies like the really good EV companies in China.”
AI's Role in Michigan's Future
26:04 to 27:55
Explore how AI initiatives are being integrated into Michigan's economic strategies.
“I'm not insulting them, but they haven't kept up.”
OpenAI's Developer Day Insights
28:00 to 28:47
Learn about OpenAI's commitment to safety and its Developer Day events.
“Coming up here on Bloomberg Tech, OpenAI holds back a version of its Astra model while it puts stronger safeguards in place.”
OpenAI's Developer Day Insights
29:54 to 31:17
Learn about OpenAI's commitment to safety and its Developer Day events.
“At IBM, we work with our employees to integrate technology right into the systems they need.”
Apple's Corporate Changes and Anthropic's Risks
32:28 to 36:26
Get the latest updates on Apple's restructuring and Anthropic's existential risks.
“We have a big piece of breaking news out moments ago from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.”
OpenAI's Astra Model and Commercial Pressures
36:28 to 39:06
Discuss OpenAI's Astra model delays and the pressures from commercial stakeholders.
“OpenAI is holding back a version of its advanced Astra model while it establishes stronger safeguards.”
OpenAI's Astra Model and Commercial Pressures
42:02 to 42:22
Discuss OpenAI's Astra model delays and the pressures from commercial stakeholders.
“Wise offers 24-7 customer service and runs over 7 million daily checks to spot and stop fraud.”
AMD Acquires World Labs
43:31 to 45:14
AMD's acquisition of World Labs and its implications for AI development.
“acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at$8.2 billion.”
Role of Fei-Fei Li at AMD
45:14 to 47:25
Discussing Fei-Fei Li's new role and the collaborative vision at AMD.
“Lee going to be integrated into the AMD team?”
Importance of Open Ecosystems in AI
47:25 to 49:32
Exploring AMD's stance on open-source models and their significance.
“And I genuinely believe this is going to be one plus one bigger than two.”
AI Safety and Responsibility
49:32 to 51:18
The discussion on ensuring AI safety amid rapid technological advancement.
“So the history of modern AI cannot be possible without open ecosystem.”
Collaborative Solutions for AI Safety
51:18 to 56:00
Conversations around collaborative safety measures in AI development.
“What is AMD in your position on how best to address all of the concerns that are out in the world at the moment?”
AI's Impact on Business and Warfare
56:00 to 58:36
Explore how AI investments are shaping industries and defense technology.
“that is safe and aligned to its objectives.”
Apple's Corporate Overhaul
58:36 to 59:26
An analysis of CEO John Ternus's strategies for Apple's future.
“So tune in on Friday for more of that conversation, and Bloomberg's Defense Tech Special will be live 11 a.m.”
Apple's Corporate Overhaul
59:43 to 1:00:42
An analysis of CEO John Ternus's strategies for Apple's future.
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Transcript
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1:54Bloomberg Tech is live from the heart of Silicon Valley with Ed Ludlow in San Francisco.
2:04This is Bloomberg Tech. Coming up, President Trump puts AI at the center of his agenda today with a new AI-powered website called America.gov. Plus, Anthropic warns of, quote, existential risks to humanity in its prospectus ahead of its IPO, according to reports. We've got the details. And AMD makes a big AI bet on the frontier by acquiring Faye Bailey World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at$8.2 billion. Welcome to the program. We will also hear from Ford CEO Jim Farley, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer later this hour. Stick around for that conversation.
2:47President Trump is putting AI at the center of his agenda today, launching America.gov, a new AI-powered website designed to make it easier for Americans to navigate federal services. Separately, President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are sitting down with some of the biggest names in tech, including NVIDIA's Jensen Wang, Meadows Mark Zuckerberg, Google Sundar Pichai, and Anthropics Dario Amodei. As the debate over But AI safety and regulation intensifies. We've heard from the president already this morning. Blue Moist Tyler Kendall joins us from Washington, D.C. Before we get to the big lunch, the president's been speaking about AI.
3:26He's discussed it with Xi Jinping, just not that much. What do we need to know? Well, Ed, at this point, President Trump is really using today to highlight his embrace of the technology. He had this event really touting this AI-enabled tool. I was there actually earlier this morning where a White House official told me that this is designed to be a, quote, one stop shop where essentially Americans can go online and ask any question about any federal agency and get a prompt answer about whether that is federal assistance or applying for a national park permit, for example. But it really goes to underscore how the administration wants to utilize AI and make the American public comfortable with it amid what is this growing concern from the industry.
4:08And take a listen to some of what he said, in part, quote, I will never stifle the growth of technology, adding, quote, we do not surrender to fears of what technologies will do to us. It will no doubt be a top topic of discussion today. President Trump just moments ago arriving back here to the White House for this big lunch with these tech leaders. You name some of them, including Elon Musk and NVIDIA's Jensen Wang. But importantly, from a D.C. perspective, House Speaker Mike Johnson is going to be in that room, too, as Washington tries to figure out what should happen here next, including what has been a flurry of legislative efforts on Capitol Hill in recent weeks.
4:45So, Ed, we should say there's an expectation that none of that's actually going to pass by the midterms, let alone after it, amid what is the administration bolstering its embrace of the technology. Though I will quickly say that Anthropics Dario Amadei was spotted on Capitol Hill earlier today speaking with Senate Majority Leader John Thune. We'll have to see if we get any update on what they discussed behind closed doors. The headlines that come out later in the day, that's probably for tomorrow's show. But something here and now that our audience is talking about is America.gov. Could you just explain the basics?
5:17I'm seeing a lot of traffic on social media across venture capital, founders, leaders in industry who are saying this is a really big thing. And it's being touted by the administration as one as well as a bipartisan initiative that's supposed to last beyond just this administration. You heard President Trump say that this could be part of the administration's legacy, that they are trying to help the American public in terms of interfacing with the government. In fact, at the beginning of the event, they played what I think is a pretty common thread for most Americans. If you call up the government and you're given a busy signal or you're told you have to wait three hours to get online.
5:58Now, there are questions about how it will handle the influx of users. We're going to have to see sort of the trial and error that this goes through. But it is something that the administration has been working on for months, and they say will impact every agency. In fact, President Trump signed an executive order while he was on stage mandating every agency to interface with this AI-enabled tool. Whether you have questions for the Department of Energy or the Interior Department, it shouldn't matter. It should all be in one defined space. As I mentioned, a White House official was really touting this as a way to streamline communication with the American public, especially amid growing skepticism around AI.
6:37As we look at some of the data and the polling as we get closer to the midterm elections, it's very clear that the White House wants to put it front and center and get the American public comfortable. the work of joe kabir co-founder of airbnb active in doge in the early days but the first chief design officer to lead the national design studio he's getting a lot of credit for this thank you very much indeed as washington leans further into ai the warnings about where the technology is headed are also getting louder joining us now is sebastian malabi council on foreign relations a senior fellow also the author of the infinity machine demis asabis deep mind and the quest for super intelligence, a term the president's adopted.
7:22America.gov, more than symbolic, something real from this administration? Yeah, I hope so. I mean, we've got large language models. Why not have a large bureaucracy model? I think everybody would love that. We'll see, as your correspondent said, we'll see if it works, because, of course, the last big tech experiment that the federal government undertook was the Obama healthcare portal and that crashed. So hopefully that won't happen again, but I think it's a great thing to try it. The goal of this is for the American public to have access to the federal government through something that's useful, a platform, right?
8:00The president has to date surrounded himself with people of industry. You kind of get the sense that this would work because he's entrusted it to people that know what they're doing. Yeah, I mean, I hope so. I think that in the past as well, when these things didn't work out the first time around, you know, Google people and other people from the tech sector were drafted in to try to rescue the mess and put it back on track. And that's what happened with the healthcare portal. But look, I think this is a great bipartisan thing. Everybody wants more efficient government. You know, I moved to Washington, D.C.
8:36in 1996 and spent 18 years there. And throughout that period, there was nonstop discussion of how to make the government more efficient. Not much happened. But, you know, it's good to try. And I hope that artificial intelligence really is a force multiplier for simplifying bureaucracy. Sebastian, from the president's perspective, AI is in the context of competition with China, right? He says America is ahead. He advocates for them to continue pushing at the frontier. And it's kind of the camp of saying, don't slow down. Right. How is he going to manage that that group of CEOs at the lunch today who have varying views on pacing the frontier?
9:20So, look, I think the fascinating thing here is that it seems that Dario Amadei from Anthropic is going to attend. And that is fascinating because he represents the most cautious, the most sort of forthright in terms of emphasizing AI risk. I think you mentioned at the top that the leaks about the Anthropic prospectus ahead of its IPO talk quite a lot about existential risk. There was a letter yesterday, you know, a letter signed by top people from Anthropic, but also other labs, reemphasizing existential risk. Again, you know, Amadei's speech in the UN last week, also about existential risk. And in the past, you know, the Trump administration's attitude to that stress on existential risk was to say, look, Dario Amadei, left wing nut job.
10:07We don't want to talk to him. We're freezing him out. But all of a sudden, he is invited to dinner on Sunday night at the White House by Trump. And, you know, the reports are that it went well and that he's back in the game again today. and he will be attending this lunch. And so the kind of obvious interpretation of what the Trump administration is up to, which is basically, hey, let's do a nice government website. We'll use AI. We'll show how useful it is to citizens. And we won't bother with all this slowdown nonsense. Well, now they've got Mr. Slowdown coming to the lunch. And so I think we may end up with a more nuanced picture of like the balance between accelerating with AI and making it helpful, which is good, but also going slow enough to make it safe, which is also extremely important.
10:55I hope that sticks. But, of course, you never know. There are a lot of twists and turns with this administration. Sebastian Malaby, Council on Foreign Relations. We talked about your book at the top. Really grateful for your time on Bloomberg Tech this morning. A lot happening in real time. I want to very quickly talk a bit about markets, what's happening in financial markets. We'll focus on the technology sector. At a high level, the NASDAQ 100 is basically flat. There is a sort of overall rally, broad rally in chip stocks. That includes AMD. Later in the hour, we're going to get to that deal.
11:29AMD acquiring World Labs,$8.2 billion all stock transaction. And AMD is higher, but so is the rest of the field. That's kind of interesting. You still see treasury yields at high levels. That is an impact in this equity market. There's a big focus on economic data as well. Bitcoin, nothing really to write home about. No specific catalyst. $83 ,500 per token. In the background, there is a lot of wait and see right now. One of the big news stories, which we will get to later in the hour, is Aura, O-U-R-A, delaying its IPO because of the IPO environment. Anthropic is the canary in the coal mine. Sometimes you see those stories impact the equity market in aggregate because everyone's waiting.
12:19We don't. We now go to Detroit, Michigan. David Weston is joined by Ford CEO Jim Farley, J.P. Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer for an exclusive interview on the launch of a public-private partnership. David.
12:38Thank you so much. I am here in Detroit, Michigan. Actually, I'm Michigan Central, joined, as you say, by the governor of the great state of Michigan, Gretchen Whitler, as well as Jim Farley and Jamie Diamond of J.P. Morgan, for a big announcement here, actually. It's something called LIFT, Michigan LIFT, which is a launchpad for industrial innovation and transformation. So, Jim, those are pretty good words, innovation, transformation, industrial. What does it all mean? What is it? We're trying to fix a problem on showing things that that we're offshored in the name of pennies on the dollar to make here in the U.S.
13:11where we needed to be independent, even defend ourselves. Ford's going to commit a billion dollars of purchasing for new companies that are going to be building advanced manufacturing, new capabilities, even magnets and rare earth that we used to buy overseas. And now we're going to buy here with the help of J.P. Morgan, as well as the state of Michigan. It's Michigan Lyft. Do they have to be Michigan companies? Yes. So companies from Michigan. So, Jamie, I ask you, markets we rely upon for an awful lot. Basically, it's served us in good stead for a lot of years in the United States. Why don't markets already take care of this?
13:45Why do we need this initiative? Yeah. So I think, first of all, I applaud the initiative. And I also think it's really important that states, governments, business work together to fix things like Detroit, which, you know, they did. So that's like the number one thing. But we need, we lost some of the muscle to do that. So I think markets will take care of a lot of it. But if you're an innovative company and you invented something here, you need an order. He's got to order it. It's got to actually work. They may have to build a real plant, not just an experimental plant. And so it takes that whole group of us to do this kind of thing.
14:18And hopefully this will be replicated. This needs to be done everywhere in a lot of industries to make sure the United States can defend itself. So, Governor Whitman, why Michigan? Why is it so important for Michigan? Why is this the right place to start this? Well, we know how to build things. Michigan, that's who we are in our DNA. We were, you know, the arsenal of democracy. This is about homeland security. It's about advanced manufacturing. That's who we are in Michigan. And so when I saw J.P. Morgan was doing this resiliency initiative, I reached out and said, let's talk about what's possible here in Michigan, because I know what we are capable of.
14:53And I think government plays an important role with industry as we think about what the future looks like and how do we do advanced manufacturing and protect ourselves. And I think this is a combination of all of those great strengths. But we need to really have a concerted, collaborative effort here. This is ultimately about supply chain, as I understand it, resiliency of supply chain, which has been disrupted by geopolitics, actually, by trade and things like that. How does this fit, for example, Governor Wilner, with your near neighbor, Canada? As we know, there's a lot of back and forth in the auto industry for Canada.
15:27How does this industry fit with that? Well, I want to first and foremost say the Canadians have been tremendous allies and partners of ours here in Michigan for a long time. Autos go back and forth over that border. This is the busiest crossing in North America, is right here in Detroit. And so we're proud of that long heritage, but I think it's really important that we continue to onshore as much as we can to the United States from all around the world. But if a Canadian company came along and was innovative in the industrial space and had something, for example, Jim, that you could use, could they apply to this program?
16:05Yes, but we really want this to be a Michigan initiative. But there are so many things in Canada that we depend on. The whole aluminum, all of our trucks are made out of aluminum. All the ingots come from Canada across the border. We do all the finishing of aluminum here, going to all of our trucks and all of our plants. And so we are looking for innovative companies, even in the aluminum supply chain, with this initiative. So, Jamie, you have a piece, actually, in the Wall Street Journal just today about the need for economic policy that maintains the preeminence, you call it, of the U.S. economy.
16:40Part of that is what we're talking about right here, which is supply chain and what we've done in supply chain. How does this fit in your plans for a preeminent U.S. economy? So what I talk about there is that if you want to be safe, have the best military in the world. It's predicated on having the best economy in the world. And that is what makes the dollar reserve currency. Those two things, it's not some fantasy about something. We have the Atlantic, the Pacific, all the food, war, and energy we need. But on economic policies, you can put domestic, and this is really domestic now, but also foreign.
17:10We have extensive relationships. And foreign policy is industrial policy, regulatory policy, investment policy. Companies overseas, folks have$20 or$30 trillion invested in the United States. American companies have almost equal numbers invested overseas. So to me, I want to keep the Western world together for trade. I think that's the way you protect yourself. 60 % of the global GDP is Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Canada, South Korea. And so I think, you know, and those are friends and allies. We have 40 military alliances, 20 free trade agreements. You know, obviously, if we're being treated unfairly, we should fix it.
17:51But my view is we should try to get these trade deals done. It's better for the U.S. It's better for those countries. You know, I don't know all the complexities. I can't get into exactly why we're running into roadblocks. but I would like to see them completed. So, Jim, when it comes to the automotive industry, there are a lot of things that can and should be done. You've been working on it, actually, with the essential economy, and so would you go to the accelerator here. Yes. Where are you in that process, and how does this fit into your accelerator program? I think we're in the second inning.
18:17We have 1.7 million open skilled jobs, skilled trades jobs in the United States. It's a crisis, and we have to do something about it. Of course, you know, Ford, my self, we can solve our problems. But that's not what we're trying to do. We've always been a company who is more ambitious than just the four walls of our company. So we've been putting a focus on the facts. We're publishing our first report on the facts around skilled trade deficits in the U.S. Most college advisors or high school advisors recommend a four-year degree. Only 2 % of them recommend a trade school. That's a problem. You know, a high-quality trade school graduates people almost 100%.
18:59So for a company like Ford, but also for our country, the resilience of our country, we have to address the skilled trade deficit. And we can sit on the sideline or just fix the problems at Ford, but that's not what we're going to do in Detroit this week. We're trying to fix it for our country. So, Governor, that takes us, obviously, education and training, which as I understand it is a component of this Michigan Lift program. But what is Michigan doing specifically on the skilled trades and the training front? A great deal. You know, part of our DNA is trades people, right? And so we, I think, have put a lot of effort into making sure that anyone who wants to upskill can afford to do that.
19:42We've got free community college in Michigan now. We've got apprenticeships that are available and easy to get into. You can graduate from an apprenticeship, get a good-paying job, and not have any debt carried on. I mean, this is a good way to make a very good living in this country that won't be impacted by AI, but won't be replaced. And I think that that's something that gives people some confidence as well. Michigan is now ranked number four in the country by Site Selector magazine for our workforce efforts. And I think that that's something that will continue. So, Jamie, you are the anchor capital provider to this.
20:20And that's obviously very helpful to either startups or, as I understand it, small companies. It's not just for startups that this program is designed. They're facing a lot of other issues, too, including higher interest costs right now, which really hits the small and medium-sized businesses disproportionately in the market. How does this fit with the pressures being put on some of these very companies right now as you see bond yields rise, interest rates rise? I think you have to separate this. We should be doing this regardless of buying yields and things like that. And that may make it harder for some people.
20:50But, you know, to me, the ultimate goal is to get inflation down. And so sometimes you have to have a little bit of pain in the short run to accomplish what you need in the long run. But this effort transcends what the market does today and transcends what the yield curve does today. We need to be doing this for the future, safe the United States of America. And we just need to get our mojo back. And I think when you talk about, when you travel this country like I do, I'm sure you guys do too. It's happening. I mean, I don't know if the people here know that the Ford, GM plants and all their vendors stopped building cars in 1942, did not build a car for the next three years, but 144 aircraft carriers, 100 ,000 fighter jets and bombers, 100 ,000 tanks.
21:29So if you go anywhere around the country now, you have a huge amount of stuff taking place. It is working. We just have to put some more elbow grease into it. This is part of a larger initiative you announced a while ago, the security and resiliency initiative, basically$1.5 trillion. This is part of that. Where does that stand? And by the way, insofar as this goes beyond the state of Michigan, which is, I understand you'd like other people to copy you in what you're doing. Are you willing to be an anchor capital provider in other places as well? Totally. So that initiative is real. I mean, we went through what we really need in drones and nuclear and rare earths and semiconductors.
22:04And, you know, we have a lot of people, a lot of policy around what we need to do to make it work. It's coming up to one year anniversary. So we're going to be announcing the numbers will be better, in my view, than 1.5 trillion. We've also invested 5 billion directly into companies that do security resiliency. You know, not venture, but pre being a public company type of thing. And it is working. This thing is just if it works, you do just do more of it. It just should be replicated. And part of it is just working together. You know, once you start, if we all acknowledge a problem and you start, like, working on it, roll up your sleeves, it will be fixed.
22:37You know, it's the denial of the problem that really puts us in trouble. So this is, it was his idea, you know. She called me, so I've got to give credit to these two to, you know, to get us going. And so, and like you said, this state is one of the great manufacturers of the world, not just the United States. Can it regain that, Governor? I mean, if you go back to the 20s and the 30s, I mean, it really was the engine behind a lot of the U.S. economy. And we're not going to go back to that. We have to go forward to the future. But can Michigan regain some of that prominence? Absolutely. I think investments like this showcase what we are capable of and uplift.
23:15You know, I've mentioned our workforce, but I wanted to make sure to also include we've got the highest concentration of engineers per capita in the country as well here in Michigan. We've got, I think, the talent to tackle the world's problems and to do it here. We just need the organization and the ability to make all of the connections for innovators who are, I think, resolving or coming up with the solutions to problems that we're all confronting. Jim, in your auto business, as I noticed, there are a few competitors around the world, particularly like in China. And you've talked before about the ability of the Chinese manufacturers, auto manufacturers, to move at light speed.
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23:53Yes. and that we need to speed things up. How do you fit together moving at light speed on the one hand with a program to bring in new companies, whether they're startups or they're small companies expanding? That sounds like that takes time. Can you move at light speed with that level of innovation? Sure. I don't think we have a choice. It's very humbling to see the competitiveness now around the globe, especially in China. But I have to say I'm very optimistic. We developed a small group here in the U.S. and California. They out-innovated, I think, companies like the really good EV companies in China.
24:30We're coming out with a$30 ,000 vehicle built in Louisville, Kentucky, engineered in California and Michigan. And I think it will be fully competitive with BYD if they were in Mexico. So we have to have innovation, but we also have to have these kind of programs. and we have to onshore things that we've offshored, like Jamie said. If we don't do all of that, you know, we're going to be in trouble. But there's an opportunity here that I don't think everyone sees yet that we see at Ford, which is, you know, Ford being a winning global company in this new competitive landscape. But we have to do it all.
25:06Can I just mention one quick thing about Michigan? Don't ask me which states, but there are some states who are doing a pretty good job at driving out small companies, venture capital, innovation, and manufacturing. The state wants it, and that is half the game. Which points to— I'm not going to mention the good states, because then I'll get a lot of email. Nobody's listening. You can tell us. Just keep it along us. But it does point in a direction. As we compete on the world stage, with China and with everybody else, what advantage can we get from our capital markets, our ability to fund these things?
25:39I mean, compared—certainly with China, but compared with Europe, that's mentioned in your piece. I think the American public doesn't understand the power of our capital markets. So we, you know, with venture capital and the mosaic, private equity, small companies, middle market companies, large companies. But you can raise tons of capital in debt markets and preferred markets. There's a lot of research around it. So America's capital markets have been growing, growing the size of the companies for decades. And if you go to certain parts of the world, like, you know, it's unfortunate, but Europe is stagnated.
26:08They have some great companies. I'm not insulting them, but they haven't kept up. They don't have as much R &D, as much venture capital, as much equity risk taping. They don't have our vibrant equity markets and debt markets, which I want them to have. I want them to fix that, and that would be good for them. But actually, ultimately, it would be good for us, too, because the stronger they are, the more business you do, and the more they can defend themselves and pay for what they need for security and resiliency. So it is a huge deal. And you go to large parts of the world, they simply don't have it.
26:36It doesn't exist. We can't have a conversation these days without talking about AI at some point. Right. And when you talk about capital availability, is there, Jamie, do you see any evidence of crowding out? Because there's so much demand for capital to go into AI right now. You know, I mean, the crowding out is coming from the government. So governments around the world are borrowing record sums of money, which is inflationary, by the way, including our government, which is huge. But no, I mean, if people are raising productive capital because they think it's going to pay out in all various ways, I think that's a good thing.
27:08It doesn't mean it's all going to pay. It doesn't mean you don't have to pay more for the capital. but generally for productive future growth. So, Governor, it's your state. You should get the last word. Tell us about AI in Michigan and how it fits potentially into this new initiative. Well, as we think about the initiative, it's about connecting the innovators with the capital and with the customers, and that's really the role of state government in the Michigan lift. We're all navigating a world that is changing fast, and that's why I think collaborations like this are going to be important.
27:41We've got to be as nimble as we can. That's not generally what government is known for, but I think that when we tackle problems like this, whether it is something on the horizon or something we're dealing with that's changing every single day, that increases our odds of success. Okay, thank you all very much for being a governor, Gretchen Whitman, as well as CEO for Jim Farley and Jamie Dimon, of course, of JVW. Great to be with you. Thank you so much, and back to you. David Weston, thank you very much. Coming up here on Bloomberg Tech, OpenAI holds back a version of its Astra model while it puts stronger safeguards in place.
28:18All this as the company's holding its developers day today, we have some big conversations with the leaders of OpenAI later this afternoon here on Bloomberg Television. Half time here in the city of San Francisco, and this is Bloomberg Tech.
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32:28Welcome back to Bloomberg Tech. We have a big piece of breaking news out moments ago from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple CEO John Ternus is moving to overhaul the company to accelerate product development. In this report from Mark Gurman, there are some absolutely clear specifics. So John Ternus, according to Mark's reporting and sources, wants to move away from relying on a spring full product release and have more regular rapid product cycles, product releases, plans to cut middle management positions. There is a broader cost-cutting effort which would include layoffs to certain departments, as Mark Gurman's detailed in that story.
33:06Apple shares were already under pressure prior to this report being published, now down at session lows, a decline of 2%. But the goal that John Ternus has been discussing with his colleagues, according to Mark's reporting, is to have a leaner organization and a much greater focus on engineering. So check out that story from Bloomberg to Mark Gurman on the Bloomberg Terminal and Bloomberg.com. But it is certainly a factor in the trade this morning. Apple down 2%. Anthropic warned that its technology poses, quote, catastrophic or existential risks to humanity. That was in its prospectus ahead of its IPO.
33:44And it mapped out plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars. This was all detailed in a report from Reuters. Bloomberg Shona Ghosh is here with those details. Let's start with the existential threat. Reuters has seen this document and Anthropic has been quite detailed in its disclosure. Try and summarize it for us. um so yes hi ad um first it's worth noting that um anthropic ceo dario amodei is a long time proponent of some of these ideas the idea that ai needs to be safely contained safely developed that's really at the core of anthropic's um mission as a company that that's sort of the the starting point really for the company it's why uh dario left open ai with a bunch of his co-founders and started Anthropic is he felt OpenAI wasn't developing AI safely enough.
34:40And in some ways, he's sort of justified with that vision. If you look at what's happened over the summer, it was OpenAI's models that escaped their sandboxes first and went about hacking third-party websites. Now, Dario is looking longer into the future and predicting that there's a sort of wider existential threat. But that's something that he's actually been saying for many years now. So it's not entirely surprising that this would pop up in the IPO prospectus, which I should add is not public yet. Yes, it is not public yet. The other part of this process prior to the S1 flipping public is everyone wants to know about money.
35:21Reuters in its report details a sort of aggregate spending commitment that Anthropic has. There's a number in there. Explain it. Yeah, so it's more than$500 billion over an unspecified period of time, but this is likely expenditure on cloud infrastructure, basically all the expenditure associated with the AI build out that's building data centers, source and compute, all of that stuff. It's hard to say what that number means when there isn't a time period specified that we know about. But to give a little bit of context, sort of depending on who you talk to, the AI build out so far has cost about$700 billion to$1 trillion.
36:05So Anthropic is looking to spend half as much again on its own build out alone. Again, hard to say what that means without a period of years to attach it to. But, you know, clearly that is a big number and something for investors to take into account that Anthropik certainly doesn't see the build out slowing down, despite some market jitters that that's the case. Bloomberg Tech Editor Shona Ghosh back on the show. Thank you very much indeed. OpenAI is holding back a version of its advanced Astra model while it establishes stronger safeguards. It's one of the most concrete steps the company's taken following a string of rogue AI hacking incidents and comes as OpenAI holds its developers day later today in San Francisco.
36:46Bloomberg Santosh Mascheranis is with us. GPT Astra 6.1. What's happening? I mean, this is the most advanced model that people are anticipating. And OpenAI, to your point, has made one of its most concrete steps to really address what it means when it's said that it is, you know, here for AI pacing. I mean, pacing is a conversation heard around the world these past few weeks, and we've been waiting for the lab to tell us exactly what that looks like. And so in this case, OpenAI is holding back a model. Last week it announced it is also going to be holding back training on a separate model. That was a separate model, right?
37:21Yes. And there's even latest updates that they are going to give senior leaders the ability to veto certain activities. So we're getting more data on what it looks like for one of the most valuable companies to kind of train and hold back their technology. as it does things it doesn't want them to do. Doesn't want them to do. So what OpenAI said was that Astra 6.1 wasn't good enough at, quote, staying within scope and authorization, which in normal people speak, basically means the model wasn't sort of reliably doing what OpenAI had hoped or instructed it to do. But context, DevDay, typically they release new products.
38:02Anthropic has been releasing models, even with the warnings at the same time. Talk about some of the commercial pressure here. Yeah, I mean, it's not a great look that the day before Dev Day, OpenAI had to release an apology to Australia, right? Like last week, news broke that OpenAI, some of its models had hacked some of the Australian government systems. And so late last night, you saw OpenAI release a long blog post explaining how it's going to do right by Australia. And so when you think about commercial pressures, you think about the kind of stakeholders that OpenAI wants, which is enterprise, secure, reliable clients, correct?
38:42And so this is a challenge for them. We already have OpenAI CEO Sam Altman telling us that they're not going to go public this year anymore. And so we'll see how much and how far OpenAI goes. Thank you very much. Stick around. And later today, we speak with OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, and OpenAI CFO, Sarah Fryer, live from OpenAI's Dev Day right here in San Francisco, live on Bloomberg Television. You do not want to miss that. Smart ringmaker Aura is delaying its US IPO, citing uncertainty in the market for new listings. The company and its backers have been looking to raise as much as$2.2 billion, despite demand reportedly reaching about four times the shares available.
39:28Or as CEO Tom Hale says the company has, quote, the luxury of choosing its moment. Okay, coming up, AMD makes a big bet on the future of AI. Acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, we hear exclusively from Li and AMD CEO Lisa Su. That's next. This is Bloomberg Tech.
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43:30AMD is making a big bet on the frontier of AI, acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at$8.2 billion. The startup builds AI models that can understand and reason about the physical world. As part of the deal, Li will become AMD's chief scientist. I sat down exclusively with her and AMD CEO Lisa Su. Listen to this. From our standpoint, AMD continues to be a platform and solutions company. It's hardware. We have software as an enabling capability. We have systems work. We're bringing that all together. We work very, very closely with our customers who are some of the leading model labs out there.
44:11So I wouldn't necessarily say that we're changing our model to be selling software. I really view this as, first of all, a tremendous foundation that World Labs has built. I think we've always said we believe in the open ecosystem, and I continue to believe that that's one of the foundations of the AI innovation race going forward, is you're going to have both open as well as proprietary models. AMD has been a contributor there. I think we are going to expand that contribution with World Labs as part of the equation. And the ultimate goal is, you know, with World Labs, we build better AI. I mean, that is AMD's goal, right?
44:48Our goal is, our ambition is really to define the future of AI compute and be the best partner to the largest consumers out there. And I think AI World Labs will make us much, much better at that because of the insights and the opportunity to offer tremendous innovation across the stack. This deal is expected to close by the end of the year, which isn't too far away, subject to regulatory approvals. How is Dr. Lee going to be integrated into the AMD team? What will her role be? And what did you pitch her on? Well, I pitched her on, you know, join the most exciting AI company in the world. That's what I pitched her on.
45:28But look, Fei-Fei, in addition to the World Labs team, I think Fei-Fei has a tremendous portfolio and ability to add across AMD. So I'm very happy to say that she will be AMD's chief scientist. So executive vice president and chief scientist reporting to me. And we will really want and welcome the contributions of Fei-Fei and the World's Labs team across the AMD roadmap. And if you think about everything that we do, Ed, one of the things I've always said is there's no one size fits all when it comes to AI. Right. I mean, we talk a lot about the big cloud compute and what we're doing in terms of CPUs and GPUs.
46:10But the physical AI world, the opportunity in robotics, the end-to-end AI capability across cloud, edge, and client, those continue to be places where I believe we're going to grow a lot over the next three, five, ten years. And those are all places that the World Labs expertise is really in our sweet spot. Fefe, I do need to ask, you know, the World Labs had raised significant money earlier in the year. You have had a lot of momentum. What options did you have? You know, was it always a path towards joining AMD? What did you consider? I think from the get go, we built a company to really stick to our mission.
46:51We're very mission driven and our mission is really to make a positive impact with the technology that we believe in. So it's not a matter of option, it's a matter of belief. And having taken this journey with AMD since the beginning, them being our investor as well as chip provider, and then gradually talking to Lisa about our shared vision, it truly is the merging of the shared vision and mission. So it's not about option, it's about what we can do in the future. And I genuinely believe this is going to be one plus one bigger than two. Well, to be fair, you're bigger than one compared to World Labs.
47:36But it's really going to be a very, very exciting journey together. In that shared vision, clearly, emphasis on open source and is a non-negotiable in the direction of travel for AI. Let's speak a little bit more about that, Lisa. I mean, why is it important for AMD from the company's perspective to advocate for an open source market and environment? But also, some of the models that the World Labs have worked on have been open. Some have been closed or proprietary. And how you balance that going forward? Yeah, I think the key is what Fei-Fei said. It is about shared vision for what we're trying to accomplish.
48:17And we are trying to be a very big contributor to the expansion, the acceleration, the innovation in the AI ecosystem. Yes. And to do that, I think you're going to have open models. You're going to have proprietary models. You're going to have large models. You're going to have small models. They're going to run on different hardware. And that's been a premise for AMD in our entire high-performance computing and AI roadmap going forward. So I think what you're going to see is more emphasis on having optionality. Enterprises want optionality. When I talk to enterprise CEOs and CIOs, nobody wants to be locked into either one hardware ecosystem or one software ecosystem.
49:02People want to be able to choose what's best at a given time. And we also want to enable all of these entrepreneurs and new companies out there that are coming up with great ideas. So you're going to see us continue to lean into open ecosystems as a key way of enabling the entire AI ecosystem. And with that, I do think part of what Vevey and I have talked about is how to leverage some of the great work that WorldLabs has already done to actually accelerate some of the open ecosystem going forward. Please. Can I add? So the history of modern AI cannot be possible without open ecosystem. from the open sharing of neural network algorithms through scientific communities to my own work, ImageNet.
49:49ImageNet was the first open source data set that was part of the driving force for modern AI revolution. So I think just to add on to what Lisa said, we need optionality and it's so important that an open ecosystem help to cross-pollinate discovery, innovation, entrepreneurship business opportunities this is the meaning and impact of an open ecosystem. I think a lot of people will say Fei Fei, World Labs has focused on what we call spatial intelligence a focus on physical AI but other areas of the market where a world model is more appropriate than text and large language model do you now go broader in your work within AMD and have not such a, narrow is a strange way to put it, but yes, a broader field of work across model types.
50:46Yeah, look, we have a lot to look forward to in the future. Lisa and I barely got time to talk about all the plans. Obviously, this is going to accelerate and expand our roadmap, right? We are going to have a lot of conversations. We're definitely going to keep doing some of the most exciting work that WorldLab is already doing, But I do envision that we will be expanding and accelerating. Lisa, this is the first opportunity I've had to speak to you in the era of debate around AI safety. It's hard to make it succinct, but the argument that the capabilities of models are advancing at a pace greater than safety and alignment are advancing to keep up with that development.
51:28What is AMD in your position on how best to address all of the concerns that are out in the world at the moment? Yes, Ed, this is an extremely important point. So I'm actually glad you brought it up because it is one that we have to be super clear about as an industry. I mean, there is no optionality in this. This is we must have great technology and it must be safe. And that's just unequivocal. And when I look at just history of how we develop technologies, it is one of those things where safety has to become a first-class citizen when you're doing development. And we've seen that in our own work when we think about all of the security and the confidentiality things that you have to do around the highest-performing processors.
52:15I think we're going to have to bring that into the AI ecosystem, and I know that that's front and center in the conversation. I am actually an AI optimist. I believe that we will put the right procedures, processes, guardrails, I think an industry-wide effort where we actually share best practices, and that's one of the things that we do on the hardware side today, for example, around security. Those are all important aspects of it, but I think we need to be unequivocal to those who are the users of AI. We absolutely are going to deliver great technology that is safe, that is aligned with its purposes.
52:53And it requires a tremendous amount of work. So it's not going to be easy, but it is definitely something that we are committed to as an industry and we must work together to make that happen. When we spoke last week, Feifei, I listed to you regulation, third-party evaluation, the Frontier Labs taking responsibility, and your response was all of the above. but how do you see your work within AMD on this issue of AI safety? Also bearing in mind your long history with this industry and this field of research. Yeah, first of all, totally agree with Lisa. And like I said, this entire happening is because of the shared vision and shared mission.
53:35So safety is shared responsibility. AI is a civilizational technology. And like all civilizational technologies, we start with the intention of making human lives and work better. But along the way, we learn that we have to use it, develop it, and deploy it responsibly because every technology is a double-edged sword. So I do think whether it was at World Labs or Stanford or now joining AMD, I really want to work with Lisa, her team, and the rest of the ecosystem to see how we can bring out this shared responsibility at individual level, individual company level, industry level, as well as societal level.
54:18I find this fascinating because I want to go back to, okay, AMD is acquiring World Labs. That gives deep insight into the development of industry and the models. The capabilities of the models and training runs improve also because the compute, its capabilities is improving generation to generation. I guess the root of the question is, you know, what responsibility then the compute platform providers take for how that training is conducted safely? And then on the inference side, the running of those models that they are aligned, they behave as we intended them to do. Well, it's a great point. And I think every one of us in the ecosystem has a responsibility and we're accountable for our actions.
55:03So from us as a hardware platform, we need to make sure that our hardware is secure, that it does what it's meant to do, that when models run on it, that the data is secure. That is something that is very much front and center in what we do. We need to work with the model companies in terms of how the hardware and software interact. I think, you know, Feifei's point here is, you know, the thought leadership aspect of it is we must step up as an industry. And, you know, I do think this is an industry-led thing in terms of, you know, we have the accountability to put out safe technology. But there are ways for us to work more cohesively across the industry because this is kind of new.
55:48And whenever you have something that's kind of new, you're actually learning. Each party might be learning at a different pace. And so what I really welcome is the opportunity for more industry collaboration, as well as some third party evaluation to ensure that every part of the stack is working together towards this objective of phenomenal technology that is safe and aligned to its objectives. That was some of my conversation with AMD CEO Lisa Su and World Lab CEO Fei-Fei Li. Time for talking tech. And another headline, Samsung is making a billion dollar bet on AI infrastructure. The company and five affiliates are investing one billion dollars in Helix Digital Infrastructure.
56:32The KKR backed company led by former AWS chief Adam Zlipsky. The deal gives Samsung a stake in a business which spans chips, construction, data centers, cloud computing and finance. Plus, the AI boom faces a six trillion dollar test. A new report from Bain & Company says the industry needs to generate that much in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the massive build-out of data centers worldwide. Existing AI services could account for just$1.8 trillion, leaving a$4.2 trillion gap for new businesses to fill. And that AI build-out could also reshape the workforce. A new report from McKinsey estimates roughly 11 million U.S.
57:13workers may need to change jobs by 2035 because of AI-related displacement. Office support, retail and transportation workers are among those facing the most disruption, with many expected to need significant retraining. What is the technology that will most profoundly change the future of warfare? For Lockheed Martin, it's all about Vectis, its next generation autonomous combat aircraft with the first prototype expected to fly next year. I spoke with Lockheed Martin's CEO, Jim Teichlet, about exactly that. Our chief engineer, when I started the company in management six years ago, said AI is really critical.
57:54and, of course, to ask for budget to invest in our own AI containerized instance where we would not be using data sets off the Internet, we would not be using models and then feeding our information back into the system, where we would have basically a controlled environment for our AI workloads. And one of our partners, again, in the technology space has been Jensen Wong. back in 2000, 2001, where hardly anyone maybe had heard of NVIDIA, if you weren't a gamer. We were a team with NVIDIA to get GPUs, and that relationship continues today. That was Lockheed Martin's CEO, Jim Tyclett. So tune in on Friday for more of that conversation, and Bloomberg's Defense Tech Special will be live 11 a.m.
58:44Eastern from Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin's advanced aircraft development facility in Southern California. Yes, live inside of Skunkworks, very rare access. Let's go back to that Apple story. The stock now at session lows down 2.2%. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman breaks the story that CEO John Ternus is already going about an overhaul of the company. Some of the basics are going away or moving away from a fall and spring release cadence, having more rapid product launches, cut middle management positions, layoffs as part of a cost reduction program. That stock, as I said, at session lows now down 2.2%.
59:26That does it for this edition of Bloomberg Tech. Stick around. Later today, we speak with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI CFO Sarah Fryer live from OpenAI Dev Day here in the city of San Francisco. You don't want to miss those conversations. Recap the podcast. You know where to find it. Thank you for being with us. This is Bloomberg Tech.
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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down President Trump's new AI-powered website America.gov, putting AI at the center of his agenda. Plus, Anthropic warns of "existential risks to humanity" in its prospectus ahead of its IPO according to reports, and AMD makes a big AI bet on the frontier by acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at $8.2 billion.
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