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Bloomberg

House Rejects Spy Powers Extension Amid Pulte Concerns

Representative Greg Landsman, an Ohio Democrat, said the lapse of a law permitting foreign surveillance will make it harder for law enforcement to keep the country safe. Landsman said that during the world cup and ongoing conflict with Iran, concerns about US safety are 'very serious' and said that someone in the intelligence community or congress should stand up and 'be the adult in the room.'

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Bloomberg

New York Penn Station Rehab Eyes Billions in Federal Funding

Bloomberg's Michelle Kaske joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." The entities transforming New York's Penn Station are slated to learn how much federal money will be directed to the project in about six months, according to Peter Cipriano, CEO of the Halmar-Skanska consortium, the renovation's master developer.

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Bloomberg

High-Yield Issuance Concentrated: JPMorgan's Herr

Kay Herr, CIO of US GFICC at JPMorgan Asset Management, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." Fears of a stagflation shock from the Middle East conflict are increasingly souring investor sentiment toward the weakest global corporate borrowers, many of which binged on cheap debt during the era of ultra-low interest rates.

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Gopuff Chose xAI For Cost and Quality, Says Co-CEO

As SpaceXAI heads toward its IPO, investors are betting on more than rockets and chatbots: the company says enterprise AI represents a $26 trillion opportunity. But can Grok actually win corporate customers? One of the few companies putting it to work is Gopuff, which built its new AI shopping assistant on xAI's models. Gopuff co-CEO Rafael Ilishayev joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech."

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Bloomberg

SpaceX IPO Feels Like Milestone Moment Says 766's Ohanian

Seven Seven Six founder and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian says the SpaceX IPO feels like a milestone moment and will fuel new investment in the space economy. He also weighs in on the AI IPOs in the pipeline, from OpenAI to Anthropic, and how they will impact venture capital. He joins Bloomberg's Dani Burger on the sidelines of the annual SuperReturn conference in Berlin.

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Bloomberg

DigitalBridge CEO Dismisses Data Centers in Space

DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why AI's next bottleneck is power, not just chips or data centers. He breaks down the ArcLight acquisition, the company's massive gigawatt pipeline, and why he thinks space-based data centers are still more "science project" than real infrastructure strategy.

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Bloomberg

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN Want To Become the Def Jam of Podcasts

After hitting 500 episodes, Rapper N.O.R.E & DJ EFN, hosts of the show 'Drink Champs,' discuss what they wanted from the show when it first started, and how it came to be. The two discuss their music careers, hip-hop culture, and their experience navigating the business side of it all. They speak with Romaine Bostick on "The Close."

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