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The May 22, 2026 edition of Bloomberg Technology, co-hosted by Caroline Hyde in New York and Ed Ludlow in San Francisco, covered two simultaneously breaking stories: SpaceX’s last-second abort of its Starship V3 test flight and Lenovo’s blowout quarterly earnings driven by surging AI infrastructure demand. The program brought together expert guests and company executives to provide live context as both situations developed.
On the SpaceX side, a hydraulic pin failure in the launch tower arm halted what would have been the debut flight of Starship V3 — a fully redesigned rocket targeting 100 metric tons of payload capacity and complete reusability of both stages. The delay came a day after SpaceX filed formal IPO paperwork, intensifying scrutiny on the launch. Former SpaceX mission operations engineer and Epsilon Three CEO Laura Crabtree joined the show to explain the engineering stakes and the company’s rapid-iteration culture that enables such aggressive development timelines.
The Lenovo segment featured CFO Winston Cheng discussing AI revenues that now represent roughly 38% of the company’s total quarterly sales, with shares posting their biggest single-day gain since 2008. Cheng covered AI PC upgrade cycles tied to agentic AI adoption, Lenovo’s infrastructure differentiation via liquid cooling technology, multi-year high-bandwidth memory supply constraints affecting the entire industry, and the company’s internal prioritization challenges when allocating scarce components across its device and server divisions.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published May 22, 2026
🏷️ Format: Livestream
