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In today's show: -Taiwan Proposes Record US$35B Defense Budget for 2027 -Local Governments Launch Alliance To Bridge Political Divide -Taiwan Seeks Deeper International Ties at Semicon 2026 -Bonuses for Visitors As Taiwan Rolls Out New Tourism Scheme -Single in Taiwan: Why Are So

China’s humanoid robot makers now control 97% of global shipments, giving Beijing an early lead over US rivals. But can they become everyday tools? At the World Robot Conference in Beijing, robots sort boxes, handle laundry and bag clothes, as Allen Wan finds out. -------- More

AI is driving a global race for data-center power — but not every deal makes the cut. Altérra CEO Majid Al Suwaidi explains why a “clean” label alone is not enough for the UAE-backed climate fund in the latest episode of “Managing Middle East with Dan Murphy.” Launched at COP28

A Chinese robot has surpassed Usain Bolt's 100-metre world-record time at the World Humanoid Robot Games, capping a year of rapid advances in humanoid robotics. The milestone e comes as China ramps up investment in humanoid robotics, a sector Beijing considers strategically impor

Listen to Bloomberg This Weekend for unique conversations spanning news, politics, lifestyle and culture. David Gura, Christina Ruffini and Lisa Mateo bring you unique discussions and in-depth conversations with lawmakers, business leaders and cultural icons. Bloomberg This

Bangladesh has launched a women-only, pink bus service in its capital, Dhaka. With female drivers and conductors, the initiative aims to make public transport safer for women. #dwnews #bangladesh #pinkbusservice For more news go to: http://www.dw.com/en/ Follow DW on social m

Parents are paying upwards of $100,000 for premium gap years that offer high-end travel, networking opportunities and unique experiences to help kids stand out in a cutthroat job market. -------- More on Bloomberg Television and Markets Like this video? Subscribe and turn on no

Russia's war against Ukraine and the US-Iran conflict are becoming increasingly intertwined. From Iranian drones in Ukraine and Ukrainian support for Gulf states, to North Korea’s role, rising oil prices, the Strait of Hormuz, and shifting global alliances - the lines between sep

Nigerian authorities say dozens have been killed or abducted in suspected jihadist attacks on villages in its north-western Niger state. Witnesses say one attack occurred at a mosque during Friday prayers in the Borgu region. Several villages in the area were also attacked. Niger

Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal, Lisa Abramowicz, Tracy Alloway and Tom Keene preview the Jackson Hole Symposium as all eyes will be on Fed Chairman Kevin Marsh and his first annual symposium address. -------- More on Bloomberg Television and Markets Like this video? Subscribe and t

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Ukraine has opened a "Pandora's box" by hitting economic targets in Russia. It comes after Ukraine says it hit the warehouse of a Russian online retailer and an oil refinery overnight. The refinery is in the Samara region some 1,000 kilometer

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Tech billionaires are quietly turning Argentina and Patagonia into “Plan B” - buying mansions, ranches and huge stretches of land as apocalypse insurance. These moves double as private foreign policy, shifting money and influence into new Southern Hemisphere safe havens. So where

The news doesn’t stop when markets close. Hosts David Gura, Christina Ruffini and Alexis Christoforous bring clarity, context and a bit of humor to the weekend’s biggest headlines, LIVE from New York. Joined by Former MI6 Chief Sir Richard Dearlove, American Whiskey Association P

The Democratic Republic of Congo has received more than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo Ebola vaccine as authorities intensify efforts to contain the country's largest-ever Ebola outbreak. Since the outbreak was declared in May, more than 5,000 people have been infected and over 2,300

Pointed offers a strategic twist to the news quiz format, testing not just players’ knowledge of the news but also their confidence in their answers. Join Bloomberg's Alexis Christoforous, David Gura, and Christina Ruffini as they play and check out the quiz for yourself at Bloom

No country exports more crude oil than Saudi Arabia. Its output, capacity and customers give it an outsized role in the world economy. Any major disruption can ripple through energy markets, supply chains and economies worldwide. #saudiarabia #oil #dwbusiness For more news go

US colleges are confronting a prolonged demographic squeeze as the number of high school graduates, after peaking in 2025, is projected to decline 13% through 2041, putting particular pressure on regional schools with limited endowments. Joining David Gura and Christina Ruffini o

The US is preparing a new campaign of economic pressure on Iran after diplomacy and months of fighting failed to produce a durable settlement, with President Donald Trump warning countries against maintaining trade ties with Tehran. Atlantic writer and Columbia University Institu

Jerry Murdock is the Co-Founder of Insight Partners, which manages over $90 billion in assets. Jerry personally backed companies including Twitter, Nest and Docker, while Insight's portfolio includes giants such as Shopify, Wiz and monday.com. Across three decades, Insight has he

In today’s show: -Etihad Airways Apologizes for “Taiwan, China” In-Flight Announcement -US Navy Aircraft Flies Through Taiwan Strait -Washington Supports Taiwan’s Record US$35B Defense Budget -Research Shows More Taiwan Adults Choosing To Stay Single -New Child Tax Break Aims To

Taiwan is giving parents with minor children a bigger tax break, with the tax-exempt allowance increasing by 50% starting with the 2027 tax year. Parents could save between US$79 and more than US$600 per child, depending on their income tax rate. Families with children under six

Taiwan’s legislature has passed an amendment requiring education authorities to help schools provide free menstrual products to students who need them. It’s part of several changes to the School Health Act addressing menstrual education and smoking on campus. While the education

The US State Department has expressed support for Taiwan’s proposed 2027 defense budget, which would allocate a record US$35 billion for defense, or nearly 4% of GDP. 📹 Reporter(s): TaiwanPlus #TaiwanPlus #TaiwanPlusNews #TaiwanNews #US #defense -  TaiwanPlus｜https://www.taiwa

A US Navy aircraft has flown through the Taiwan Strait. The US 7th fleet confirmed to Reuters that it sent a P-8 surveillance aircraft through the Strait on Friday. It said the move demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. It comes as Chinese President Xi J

A midnight explosion followed by a roaring blaze in southern Taiwan has injured at least 13 people and damaged 11 nearby houses. The fire broke out on an empty plot in Tainan, where discarded industrial materials, including machine oil, had been stored. Three firefighters and sev

An announcement referring to Taiwan as part of China on an Etihad flight to Taipei has sparked outrage online and drawn a protest from Taiwan’s foreign ministry. Taiwan's civil aviation authorities said Etihad Airways later apologized for the announcement and revised the wording.

Abu Dhabi-based Altérra is seeking to show that climate investment can deliver competitive returns while drawing more private capital into the energy transition. Launched at COP28 in 2023 with a $30 billion commitment, the fund aims to mobilize $250 billion by 2030. CEO Majid A

From creating Smallville, the landmark Generative Agents experiment that showed AI characters could remember, plan, socialize, and develop emergent behaviors, to now building foundation models of human behavior, Joon Sung Park is trying to answer a much bigger question: what if w

We check out the Bosgame M5, an AMD Strix Halo system with 128GB of memory that currently costs about $1000 less than AMD's own version. When we looked at this system, we realized the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 system was similar to something else we have reviewed on STH. STH Main Si

(00:00) Besties are back! (00:13) Dario's two-part essay: regulatory capture, doomerism, and the data center backlash (10:25) FINRA for AI vs. MPAA for AI: SROs, thinking tokens, and the "DMV for AI" (30:12) Is an open source ban coming? Harnesses, FDI, jobs, and recursive self-i

President and CEO Hiroki Totoki explains why Sony moved beyond its hardware roots and iconic products like the Walkman to become an entertainment powerhouse–led by games, movies and music. Chapters: 00:00 Sony’s transformation 01:29 Turning video games into movie 04:06 AI and Pl

This video is sponsored by TSMC. https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/oip?utm_source=TechTechPotato The semiconductor industry is shifting from monolithic chip design to a complex, system-level ecosystem driven by the relentless 18-month cadence of the AI buildout. Feat

This week's YC Paper Club is focused on data. Three domain experts give talks to break down the challenges and frontiers of training data, benchmarks, and multilingual pre-training. Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinat

Jason Lemkin is one of the leading SaaS investors of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Algolia, Talkdesk, Owner, RevenueCat, Saleloft and more. Rory O’Driscoll is a General Partner @ Scale where he has led investments in category leaders such as Bill.com (B

Elena Burger is joined by a16z’s Angela Strange and Gabriel Vasquez to discuss the rise of the "borderless founder": entrepreneurs who bring the networks and insights of their home markets together with the talent, capital, and speed of Silicon Valley to build global companies.

Uber President and COO Andrew Macdonald says Waymo and Tesla can both win in autonomous driving, but the real advantage may come down to distribution. His view is that even the biggest robotaxi players will still want access to Uber’s network because expensive vehicles need to s

During the pandemic, soccer clubs needed money. Crypto companies had plenty of it — and wanted something the sport could offer: visibility, recognition and credibility. What followed was a sponsorship boom that put crypto brands on shirts, around stadiums and alongside some of th

Addy Osmani spent more than 14 years at Google, working on Chrome, DevTools, Core Web Vitals, and most recently, AI developer experience. If you've ever opened Chrome DevTools, or optimized a page for Core Web Vitals, you’ve used software built by Addy Osmani. In this episode, I

a16z General Partner David George is joined by Grant LaFontaine, co-founder of Whatnot, to unpack how a marketplace that started with collectibles evolved into one of the world's leading live shopping platforms. Grant traces the company's origins from selling Pokémon cards onlin

Commerzbank CEO Bettina Orlopp says she understands why UniCredit took its initial stake in the German lender, calling it “a perfect opportunity.” But in this interview, recorded in May, she says she would have handled what came next “very differently” — and explains why she bel

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Cerebras has a new wafer scale chip and a new box to put it in. WSE 3.5 doubles the frequency and roughly doubles performance over WSE 3 on the same TSMC N5 node, and CS4 drops three of them into one 120 kilowatt rack using a backpack design for power, cooling and modular network

Michael Kratsios has seen the AI boom from both sides: as COO of Scale AI and inside the White House. Today, as the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he helps shape America’s national strategy on AI, science, and emerging technology. At Startup

Bettina Orlopp took over as CEO of Commerzbank as the German lender was pushing ahead with a multiyear turnaround — and as UniCredit was building a stake that raised the pressure on the bank's leadership. In this episode of Executive Decisions, Orlopp explains how she has appro

(0:00) The most controversial company in privacy right now, Flock CEO joins the show! (7:23) License plate data retention: 7 days solves 90% of crimes (13:00) Camera vandalism, felony charges, and privacy concerns (18:15) Dirty cops exposed: Flock's audit tool got 9 Georgia offic

a16z General Partner David George is joined by Will Gaybrick, President of Product & Business at Stripe, to discuss how AI is changing the way Stripe builds products, organizes teams, and thinks about the future of internet commerce. Stripe has evolved from a payments company int

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“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 wh

"Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Sydney with Haidi Stroud-Watts and Paul Allen, getting insight and analysis from newsmakers and industry leaders on the biggest stories sha