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Takeshi Hakamada, Founder and CEO at Ispace, discusses the company's plans to to create a lunar payload service to be launched aboard a SpaceX Starship rocket. He speaks with Shery Ahn on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade.

Wayfair is building on its success as an e-commerce furniture and home goods retailer with a move into large-format brick-and-mortar stores. On Bloomberg Chief Future Officer, CFO Kate Gulliver shows Carol Massar around Wayfair's new Atlanta store, and explains how this new initiative is helping the company create a seamless omnichannel "clicks to bricks" shopping experience.

Furniture and home goods retailer Wayfair has built a thriving e-commerce platform that's been incorporating advanced technologies throughout its 25-year history. On Bloomberg Chief Future Officer, CFO Kate Gulliver tells Carol Massar how the company is now using AI to improve the customer experience and enhance internal business processes.

JINS rose to prominence 25 years ago with its bargain-basement ¥4,990 eyeglasses, becoming a household name for cheap chic as falling or stagnant prices took hold. Now, the Tokyo-based lensmaker is positioning itself to take advantage of the shift toward greater pricing power by opening up stores in ritzy venues and by offering a wider price range. Bloomberg's Reed Stevenson reports from Tokyo.

American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Angela Stent discusses President Trump's announcement he would allow Ukraine to make its own Patriot Missiles. She says Trump "sees that Ukraine looks like a winner, that it has cards that the Ukrainians are really fighting back."

In this segment, Songyee Yoon, Director on HP's Board and Founder of Principal Venture Partners, discusses the emerging divergence between the chip cycle and the hyperscaler cycle amid the AI build-out. She highlights the critical issue of whether hyperscalers will reduce their spending as the costs of AI infrastructure escalate, a factor that could significantly impact the broader AI investment landscape and equity market performance. She speaks with Romaine Bostick & Katie Greifeld on "The Close."

Mark Douglas, CEO of the ad tech company MNTN, discussed Meta's reported ambitions to expand beyond advertising into cloud infrastructure. Douglas expressed skepticism about Meta's ability to compete with established cloud providers like AWS and Google Cloud, citing high switching costs for customers and Meta's lack of excess AI infrastructure capacity to monetize. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Katie Greifeld on "The Close."

Bloomberg's Michelle Davis joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals" to discuss what's top of mind in media M&A as moguls gather in Sun Valley for Allen & Co.'s annual conference.

Will Todman, chief of staff of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and senior fellow of the Middle East Program at CSIS, said that a low level conflict with outbursts from both the US and Iran is more likely than an 'all-out' war because the economic costs to both countries are too great. Todman said that Iran is 'very keen' to keep control over the Strait of Hormuz as an economic and strategic negotiating tool.

Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Katie Greifeld, Carol Massar and Bailey Lipschultz.