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

The latest round will place the startup at a $47 billion valuation. voice-verified

Bloombooks Rebecca Torrens covers all things, startup, venture capital, and broke the story. voice-verified

This is interesting because very simply it is a market. voice-verified

and very quick jump from cognition's last valuation. voice-verified

I w I should say that i in our reporting and I you know I I teamed up with you on this one, we we don't have a sense of all the details yet, right? voice-verified

We don't necessarily have who's participating in this round or leading it, but I the sense is that it is well underway for cognition to raise this money and that this valuation is getting mm settled. voice-verified

Russ Rights, I think Scott Woo had c the CEO had come on the show and shared that AIR figure. voice-verified

Just very quickly, you and I had reported that SpaceX approached cognition with the idea of acquiring them. voice-verified

Cognition said no. voice-verified

Uh we published the story, Scott Wu, the CEO of Cognition, and Elon Musk weighed in, but just summarise that historic reporting for us, because I think it's relevant here giving the timing. voice-verified

Okay, to recap cognition set to raise a billion dollars at about a forty seven billion dollar evaluation, according to Rebecca's reporting. voice-verified

Bloomers Rebecca Torrens, thank you very much. voice-verified

Lots going on around the world, let's get out to New York where Bloomberg's Yahara Hannand is standing by. voice-verified

Hey Yahara. voice-verified

Thank you, Yahra. voice-verified

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang's urging the world's largest economies to accelerate their adoption of AI as a way to enhance growth. voice-verified

Speaking at a G twenty meeting in North Carolina, Huang said, quote, every single country needs to build infrastructure to support their local economies and called AI the great equalizer. voice-verified

Bloomberg's Maggie Eastland was in the room and she's with us now. voice-verified

Uh this is a a sort of side. voice-verified

side meeting to the main ministerial G twenty. voice-verified

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