Apple Is Ready to Make Long-Awaited Push Into Smart-Home Market

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-Matthew Bloxham, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Media and Tech Analyst, discusses Apple planning to make its push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, with a smart-home hub code-named J490 at the center of the strategy. The company also plans to announce the first update to the HomePod mini since its 2020 debut and its first new TV set-top box since 2022, which will serve as a showcase for Apple's new Siri AI assistant.

-Ed Ludlow, Bloomberg Tech Anchor, discusses his interview with OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman. Altman said the company wants to navigate a period of heightened artificial intelligence safety concerns without the pressure of being a newly public company. He said the company is "adjusting" to a "new level" of AI capability and the added safety requirements that coincide with it. OpenAI is holding discussions about a new funding round to raise at least $30 billion from investors at a valuation of around $1.4 trillion.

-Stephen Flynn, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Credit Analyst, discusses the latest at Paramount-Skydance. Paramount Skydance Corp. is selling debt to fund its Warner Bros. Discovery buyout, but delays have increased the cost of borrowing due to growing fears about global inflation. The company will have more than $87 billion of investment-grade and high-yield debt after the buyout and needs to generate enough earnings and cost savings to pay down its obligations.

-Gautam Mukunda, Lecturer at Yale School of Management and Bloomberg Opinion Contributor, discusses his column: “We Are In an Era of Warped Entrepreneurship.” A New York Times investigation found that DraftKings Inc. built a machine-learning model that scored customers by how much they would lose for each free bet or bonus they received. The model raised concerns that the company was targeting problem gamblers, with a data analyst saying "the best investment would be a problem gambler" due to financial logic.

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