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BetMGM CEO on Early NFL Betting and Prediction Markets

With Week 1 of the NFL season wrapping up, Adam Greenblatt, CEO of BetMGM, said the season has started enthusiastically and that early activity has been strong. He added that, from the bookmakers' perspective, Sunday was not a favorable day because the fans came out ahead, leaving bettors happy and operators with an early loss. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Isabelle Lee on "The Close."

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Lincoln Center Kicks Off Fall Season

The Lincoln Center in NYC has welcomed 600,000 new audience members in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, offering free of low-cost performances to attract new audiences. Chief Artistic Officer Shanta Thake shares what is on schedule for the Lincoln Center's fall programming, and why she thinks the institution has thrived in the live performance and arts space for so many decades.

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McKinsey AI Leader on the State of AI Development

Kate Smaje of McKinsey says the recent wave of warnings from AI leaders and researchers about slowing development is an important debate, especially around AGI, risk, pace, and patience. But she says the conversation inside boardrooms is different: executives who have already invested heavily in AI are now focused on whether those tools can scale, deliver profitability, and remain sustainable. She speaks with Romaine Bostick & Isabelle Lee on "The Close."

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Global Impact of AI 'Apocalypse'

A new Bloomberg Economics report estimates that advanced economies have 27% of employment meaningfully exposed to the first-order effects of AI. Chief Economist Tom Orlik breaks down the new study, which breaks down which jobs and tasks AI can takeover, and how they got to the number of 380 million jobs that may eventually be significantly impacted by new technology.

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David Sacks: Anthropic, OpenAI Should Slow AI If Deemed Necessary

David Sacks, chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, says Anthropic and OpenAI should slow development of their most advanced AI models if they believe the technology poses serious risks, but argues they don't need new regulation to do it. He pushes back against calls for antitrust exemptions and a broader regulatory framework, saying today's frontier AI labs are setting the frontier themselves and do not need "anyone else's permission." He also underlines that any approach must account for competition with China, which is unlikely to join a global agreement to slow down AI development. He speaks to Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow.

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Wall Street's Leveraged ETF Push Gets New Twist

Bloomberg's Isabelle Lee joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." A corner of the ETF market drawing regulatory scrutiny is pushing for still shorter-term speculation. Defiance ETFs has submitted paperwork to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a series of leveraged funds that would seek to double the moves of some individual stocks over periods measured in just hours, rather than days.

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'Encouraging' to Hear AI Firms Taking Risk Seriously, Says Moynihan

Bank of America chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan said that it is 'encouraging' to hear that AI firms are taking the responsibility of AI safety seriously as leaders raise the alarm about the pace of innovation and potential ramifications. Moynihan, talking to Bloomberg's Dani Burger, said that he expects trading to be 'relatively flat' in the third quarter compared to last year.

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