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Bloomberg Technology’s April 15, 2026 broadcast leads with two major AI industry stories. Reporter Natasha Mascarenhas reveals that Anthropic is fielding unsolicited investor term sheets valuing the company at more than $800 billion — more than double the $350 billion valuation at which it closed a funding round earlier in February 2026. Anthropic is currently pushing back on these offers, but Mascarenhas notes a ticking clock: the company faces pressure to raise fresh capital before an IPO expected as early as October 2026, and a new model release provides a concrete funding rationale.
The broadcast also covers Meta’s expanded multibillion-dollar partnership with Broadcom to design and manufacture custom AI accelerator chips under the MTIA program. Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh explains that Meta is following Google’s playbook — prioritizing token efficiency for inference workloads across its 3-billion-user app ecosystem — and that Broadcom handles architecture before taking designs to TSMC for fabrication. Singh notes Meta’s lack of a cloud business complicates the ROI equation when buying Nvidia GPUs at scale, making custom silicon increasingly attractive.
Additional segments include IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warning of ongoing global economic shocks and the importance of targeted fiscal policy, and discussion of reports that President Trump may seek to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell — with Georgieva defending central bank independence as an economic asset.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published April 15, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
