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: The long tail of the NBA’s shocking punishment of LA Clippers owner and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Podcaster Pablo Torre has been at the center of this story; he and Washington University’s Patrick Rishe discuss the latest reporting and the future options for the NBA. Rep. Greg Casar, the Texas Democrat who chairs the House progressive caucus, describes the need for legislation he’s introduced with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to ban artificial superintelligence, when concerns are high about hacks by rogue agents. Plus, diesel prices hit a new high, global bonds remain vulnerable and Vice President JD Vance wants to Fed to cut interest rates.

Pablo Torre & Patrick Rishe -17:17
Greg Casar - 30:50

In this episode:
Pablo Torre, @PabloTorre
Patrick Rishe, @PatrickRishe
Rep. Greg Casar, (D-TX) @RepCasar
Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick
Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin
Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie


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Nvidia has officially agreed to buy open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, as the chipmaker and world’s most valuable company moves into a future beyond hardware. The CEOs of both companies, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Hugging Face’s Clement Delangue, join exclusively to discuss the terms of the courtship and the deal – and the future of artificial intelligence’s open source commitment. Plus, the NBA suspends Clippers’ owner Steve Ballmer for violating terms of the league’s salary cap in signing Kawhi Leonard. And, New York City schools ban AI from elementary school classrooms
Jensen Huang and Clement Delangue - 13:32
In this episode:
Jensen Huang, @JensenHuang
Clement Delangue, @ClementDelangue
Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick
Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin
Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie


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Berkshire Hathaway’s new CEO Greg Abel is in Tokyo, where he’s discussing the firm’s stakes in Japanese trading houses. Abel also discusses Berkshire’s Alphabet stake, a portfolio shift spearheaded by Warren Buffett. Then, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick joins the show from the G20 in North Carolina. Ahead of a fireside chat with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Sec. Lutnick discusses the data center boom, semiconductor tariffs, American competitiveness, and his own perspective on the collapse of trade talks with Canada.

Greg Abel - 5:19

Sec. Howard Lutnick - 30:50

In this episode:

Howard Lutnick, @howardlutnick

Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk

Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick

Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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Anthropic has secured a $35 billion deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for a Texas data center, and today Apple welcomes its new CEO John Ternus, after Tim Cook’s 15 years on the job. NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has assembled a 15-person business advisory council to bridge his office with Wall Street. One councilmember, RXR CEO Scott Rechler, discusses why he agreed to participate, despite initial uncertainty about the Mayor’s plans for New York. Plus, pioneer of index-fund investing David Booth has written a book on his investing philosophy: “Stay Calm: Learn to Embrace Uncertainty in Investing and Life.” The legendary investor shares his perspective on investing and his faith in human ingenuity through any market cycle.

In this episode:

Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk

Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick

Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin

Scott Rechler, @scottrechler

Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

David Booth - 18:51

Scott Rechler - 31:49

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In the first attack since July, the U.S. struck Iran at Larak Island. CNBC’s Dan Murphy reports on the latest exchanges from Dubai. OpenAI will end access to Cursor after SpaceX’s acquisition of the AI startup. At the G20 in Asheville, North Carolina, former U.S. Treasury official Joe LaVorgna explains his optimism about America’s economic trajectory and weighs in on both the Treasury’s bond buyback plan and Kevin Warsh’s next interest rate announcement. Plus, Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes correspondent Erik Davis discusses the busy summer movie season and the five impressive weeks at the box office for "Spider-Man: Brand New Day."



Dan Murphy - 03:21

Joe LaVorgna - 15:47

Erik Davis - 28:39



In this episode:

Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk

Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick

Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin

Dan Murphy, @dan_murphy

Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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