Descriptions:
Bloomberg Technology’s May 13, 2026 broadcast opens with the news that Anthropic is seeking to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing at a valuation exceeding $900 billion — a figure that would place it among the most valuable private companies ever. Anchors Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss what the round signals about investor appetite for frontier AI, as well as concerns around fraudulent secondary-market trading of pre-IPO shares in high-profile AI startups.
The episode devotes significant coverage to President Trump’s visit to Beijing, where a delegation of top U.S. tech executives — including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (added last-minute), Apple’s Tim Cook, and Elon Musk — joined trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Markets responded sharply: Nvidia rose nearly 3% on speculation that Chinese buyers could regain access to H200 chips, and broader semiconductor names surged on optimism around a potential US-China AI collaboration framework.
Additional segments include an interview with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, whose defense-tech company closed a new funding round at a $61 billion valuation. Schimpf weighs in on the Taiwan threat window, secondary-market fraud affecting private AI companies, and Anduril’s deterrence mission. The broadcast closes with an update on the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI civil trial, where Sam Altman testified he was “extremely uncomfortable” with Musk’s early demands for unilateral control of the nonprofit.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published May 13, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
