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Apollo and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a roughly $36 billion debt financing deal to help Anthropic build out its AI infrastructure. The debt will be used to purchase Google's custom chips known as tensor processing units, or TPUs, which Anthropic will then lease, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports.

"Risk is on and at higher levels," Bob Sloan, managing partner at S3 Partners, says when discusses short covering in US stocks on "Bloomberg The Close."

DoubleLine CEO and CIO Jeffrey Gundlach expresses his concerns about the state of the private credit market on "Bloomberg The Close."

GTCR Co-CEO and Managing Director Collin Roche reflects on the private equity landscape, emphasizing the importance of value creation over merely capitalizing on rising prices. Roche highlights GTCR's multibillion-dollar exit from Worldpay as a prime example of their strategy: backing executive teams to implement operational and strategic changes that improve business performance and justify higher exit multiples.

Guggenheim Investments President Dina DiLorenzo says the firm is working to launch a nontraded business development company, calling private credit an "important" asset class. She speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California.

"There's a lot of attractive opportunity to invest," Pimco CEO Emmanuel Roman says while discussing data center financing and the company's debt deal pipeline at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California.

Citadel's former Chief Technology Officer Umesh Subramanian is joining private investment firm Motive Partners, where he will lead its artificial-intelligence push. Subramanian and Motive's founder Rob Heyvaert speak to Bloomberg's Dani Burger at the Milken Global Conference.

Pimco President Christian Stracke discusses the firm's expansion of its international business. Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, Stracke says international clients are seeking to diversify away from US markets amid geopolitical shifts.

"It's a little bit of a head-scratcher as to why the markets are as robust as they are," Armen Panossian, co-CEO and head of performing credit at Oaktree, says. Speaking with Bloomberg's Dani Burger at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, Panossian warns investors are underestimating the fundamental risks facing the credit market.

Private equity is entering a new era according to Mark Sotir, the President of Equity Group Investments, He joins Bloomberg Open Interest to break down why founders are rushing for stability, how AI is boosting productivity, not replacing jobs, and why rising interest rates and competition are making it harder than ever to generate returns.