Phil Mercer

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6,576 appearances 120 recordings 5 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 2d ago

Phil Mercer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 118 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 38.

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Bloomberg Tech · Nvidia Nears $14B Hugging Face Deal · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

This is Bloomberg Tech, coming up Nvidia's in advance talks to acquire AI startup Hugging Face in a transaction totalling $14 billion. voice-verified

Plus, Dell Share's jump after the company boosted its annual sales forecast by $25 billion due to surging demand for servers to run AI tasks. voice-verified

And Uber cuts 10% of its staff globally to streamline its core engineering science and delivery groups. voice-verified

Okay, so let's get right to our top story. voice-verified

Nvidia could be closing in on its biggest AI acquisition yet. voice-verified

According to sources, the chipmakers in advance talks to buy Hugging Face in a deal that could total $14 billion. voice-verified

For more, Bloomberg Zan King is here with us, along with Rachel Metz, both of whom broke the story last night. voice-verified

We've known about Ian the number of $12.9 billion. voice-verified

That's the kind of acquisition, and we've known that it's close. voice-verified

This fourteen billion dollar figure, what does that include? voice-verified

What's the new bit here? voice-verified

keeping the staff. voice-verified

Rachel, uh it seems a strange place to go next, but what is Hugging Face? voice-verified

Like we've been talking about them so often of late because they were subject to a mistake in hack by OpenAI models as one example. voice-verified

But what is it that they actually do? voice-verified

Ian, why would NVIDIA want to buy Hugging Face as Rachel's just described it? voice-verified

Rachel, is it a surprise that that this is happening? voice-verified

Like in in Hugging Face's history of either raising money or or what we know about their co founders, selling to NVIDIA, did we have that on the on the bingo card? voice-verified

Bit of M and A history for NVIDIA Ian you know, we say fourteen billion dollars would be like their biggest acquisition in AI. voice-verified

Where has Nvidia done actual acquisitions as opposed to like these investments which it makes many of? voice-verified

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