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Three Mile Island Gets an AI Makeover
Bloomberg Technology· 2026-05-08 16:50
Remind those what 3 Mile Island means to many and why it's so important that it comes back online. Okay. To many, it means nuclear disaster.1979, it was the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history. But let's keep in mind, 1979 was, like, a long time ago. No.Last night, I actually told my son, hey. I have this big story coming out on 3 Mile Island. He's like, what's that.So for a lot of us, it has a lot of meaning, but for younger people, it has no meaning at all. Will, you don't talk about your job ...
NASA’s Chief on the Odds Aliens Have Already Found Earth
Bloomberg Technology· 2026-05-08 16:19
You've said before that the odds that aliens exist is pretty high. NASA's actively looking for them. That's part of what NASA does, of course.What exactly are you looking for. A lot of what we're doing is just looking for, you know, what are the building blocks to life and biosignatures that are out there. Better than 90% chance you bring the samples home from Mars.You will prove that there was once microbial life on on Mars. And I think most people look up in the night sky and say, surely it's out there so ...
Waymo vs Wayve: The Self-Driving Showdown Coming to London
Bloomberg Technology· 2026-05-08 13:52
Two companies and two very different bets on autonomous driving. That's where we start today. Waymo is leading today.Wayve AI is banking on what comes next. Waymo combining multiple sensors and then sensors lidar radar cameras and detailed maps and a step by step driving system. Wayve AI, by the way, uses just cameras and a single AI model trained to drive from data.That means that Waymo is already on the road today, but needs maps and higher cost hardware, and rolls out city by city. Wayve is still testing ...
Autonomous Driving Showdown: Who Will Win the Self-Driving Race? | Bloomberg Tech: Europe 5/08/2026
Bloomberg Technology· 2026-05-08 09:26
♪ >> COMING UP, THE SELF-DRIVING RACES BACK ON BUT THE INDUSTRY IS SPLIT ON THE ROAD AHEAD. THREE COMPETING APPROACHES, RELYING ON END TO END AI AND A HYBRID SET UP. WILL IT BE WINNER TAKE ALL.FOUR IS THERE SPACE FOR MULTIPLE PLAYERS. WAYVE VS. WAYMO. A BATTLE OF TWO VISIONS FIGHTING FOR THE FUTURE AUTONOMOUS DRIVING.>> OUR TECH STACK FOCUSES NOT JUST ON THE DRIVER, BUT ALSO ENSURING ALL OF THE PLANS ITS DRIVER GENERATES. >> BUILDING AN END END AI SYSTEM FOR DRIVING REQUIRES A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT APPROACH. ...
Arm Warns of Phone Market Weakness | Bloomberg Tech 5/7/2026
Bloomberg Technology· 2026-05-07 19:45
♪ ANNOUNCER: "BLOOMBERG TECH" IS LIVE FROM COAST TO COAST WITH CAROLINE HYDE IN NEW YORK AND ED LUDLOW IN SAN FRANCISCO. CAROLINE: COMING UP, SOME SLUGGISHNESS IN THE SMARTPHONE INDUSTRY BUT AI DENNIS UNDERGROWTH IS OFF THERE THAT THERE TO OFFSET. ANTHROPIC SIGNED AN AGREEMENT SPACEX TO ACCESS COMPUTER RESOURCES FROM ITS COMPETITOR.AND A SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE FIRM RAISES $460 MILLION IN FIVE. BUT FIRST, WE CHECK IN ON THESE MARKETS AND MANAGED TO SUSTAIN THE RALLY. A NEW RECORD HIGH, IMPORTANTLY WE ARE UP ...
Tech Sector Layoffs Keep Mounting As Cuts in Other Sectors Fall
Bloomberg Technology· 2026-05-07 18:47
Let's take a look at today's big number, eighty five thousand four hundred and eleven. That's the number of planned cuts in the tech industry so far this year, up 33% from the same period in 2025, bringing the total for 2026 to a three year high even as overall private sector layoff announcements receded. This is all coming from data from challenger.Bloomberg's US economy reporter Julia Vanzar is joins us now on the train trend that we're seeing. Look. We've whether it's anecdotal, whether you think of the ...
Arm CEO Sees AI Demand While Smartphone Business Slumps
Bloomberg Technology· 2026-05-07 16:33
Renee, the the market perhaps digesting recent run ups in the stock, but also digesting what you warned that you're seeing in a smartphone arena, and that's because of memory prices. Just dictate a little bit of what you've seen in the space. Good morning, Caroline.And I'm in San Jose, not San Diego, but that's okay. You know, in terms of the the overall market and and the quarter, we are we could not be happier in terms of the results that we had this last quarter. It was $1,500,000,000 in that neighborhoo ...
AMD Soars on Blockbuster AI-Fueled Forecast | Bloomberg Tech 5/6/2026
Bloomberg Technology· 2026-05-06 20:30
>> "BLOOMBERG TECH" IS LIVE FROM COAST TO COAST WITH CAROLINE HYDE IN NEW YORK AND ED LUDLOW IN SAN FRANCISCO. CAROLINE: THIS IS "BLOOMBERG TECH." COMING UP, AI ENTHUSIASM IS BACK AS AMD RALLIES ON A BLOCKBUSTER FORECAST. PLUS, DISNEY POSTS STRONGER RESULTS THAN EXPECTED THANKS TO IMPROVED PROFITABILITY AND IS STREAMING BUSINESS, AND WE SPEAK WITH THE UBER CFO AS THE PLATFORM POSTS A SECOND QUARTER OUTLOOK THAT ALSO BEAT EXPECTATIONS.FIRST, WE RETURNED WITH MARKETS THAT ARE RISK ON. A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO ...
Uber Signals Growing US Demand
Bloomberg Technology· 2026-05-06 18:38
Talk to me about why we're amid the macro concerns, amid maybe a slightly worrying environment with oil prices, for example, you're still managing to push forward on bookings on demand. Thanks, Caroline. So I think, you know, if you think about our quarter, the first thing I'd say is we're incredibly proud of the pace, with which our teams have been introducing new products.And, you would have seen, just recently, had, at our annual Go Get event. We introduced a number of new products and features that meet ...
Apple to Let Users Choose Rival AI Models Across Its iOS 27 Features
Bloomberg Technology· 2026-05-06 18:23AI Processing
Apple's preparing a major AI reboot as part of iOS 27 later this year, and it all begins with the revamped version of Siri. [music] The assistant is getting a full redesign. It moved into the iPhone's dynamic island [snorts] and will work more like OpenAI's Chat GPT, making it suitable for ongoing conversations versus only one-off commands.There's also support for several commands in a single query. Under the hood, the voice assistant is being rebuilt using models from Google's Gemini team. For the first ti ...