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OpenAI has unveiled an always-on artificial intelligent agent that’s designed to proactively tackle work on a user’s behalf, competing with firms like Meta Platforms Inc. in a growing field for AI-powered digital assistants. The product, called Dots, is capable of using a computer and pulling information from various connected applications to conduct research, draft documents and develop software, OpenAI said on Tuesday.

On today's episode:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman & Ed Ludlow, Host of Bloomberg Tech
Dave Lee, Bloomberg Opinion Columnist
Ann Miletti, Head of Equity Investments at Allspring Global Investments
Ian Rogers, Chief Human Agency Officer at Ledger
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Global anxiety over artificial intelligence risks has intensified following fresh disclosures about a far wider range of breaches by advanced AI models, setting the stage for a high-stakes meeting between Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and President Donald Trump.
Amodei and Trump met on Sunday night, according to a White House official, bringing together two men at opposite ends of the AI safety debate. The meeting marked their first private sit-down after months of rocky relations between the Anthropic chief and the administration over safety-related issues involving the company’s AI tools.

We discuss their meeting and the day's top headlines with Seth Fiegerman, Bloomberg News AI Editor.
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The selloff in the US bond market deepened on Monday after President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, dampening hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough to end the war. The decline pushed most Treasury yields higher by nearly 10 basis points by noon in New York, with those on 10-year bonds climbing to a fresh 19-year high. Meantime, Iranian officials have privately expressed pessimism about reaching a deal to end hostilities with Washington and reopen the Strait of Hormuz before US midterm elections in November.

On today's episode:
Patrick Murphy, former Acting Secretary of the Army & US Congressman
Bob Chapek, former Disney CEO
Rebecca Walser, Founder & CIO at Walser Wealth Management
Ed Ludlow, 'Bloomberg Tech' Host
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In late January, the week before Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced a $1.6 billion government commitment to fund a US magnet maker, bankers at his former financial services company, now run by his sons, were busy earning fees raising $1.5 billion more for the company from private investors.
The parallel deals have been questioned by Democratic lawmakers alleging possible conflicts of interest involving Lutnick and his sons. But a more basic set of questions has dogged the project: Can USA Rare Earth Inc., the company getting these public and private funds, actually produce the critical minerals and magnets the government needs to break China’s chokehold on global supplies?
For a closer look, we speak with Joe Deaux, Bloomberg News Senior Reporter for Corporate & Economic Statecraft.
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President Donald Trump said he would meet again with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in November, following what he said was a successful summit in Washington that was seemingly light on concrete policy outcomes. Meanwhile, oil prices declined on tentative signs that talks between the US and Iran to reopen the world’s most important energy shipping route were progressing.
On today's episode:
- Jennifer Welch, Chief Geoeconomics Analyst for Bloomberg Economics
- Mekala Krishnan, Partner at the McKinsey Global Institute
- Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Permanent Representative of Guyana to the UN
- Rudina Seseri, Founder & Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures
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