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11AM Hour: Kalshi CEO on Prediction Markets, Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper & Revolution Medicines CEO on Pancreatic Cancer Drug Breakthrough 6/1/26

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Investing, Business

4.0566 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The CEO of Kalshi joins to discuss the company's latest product announcements and the regulatory environment for prediction markets. Then, Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper helps break down the latest headlines on the war with Iran. We also speak with the CEO of D-Wave Quantum following the U.S. government's recent investment in quantum companies. Plus, the CEO of Revolution Medicines joins to discuss the company's pancreatic cancer drug that nearly doubled survival rates. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Good Monday morning again. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Sarah Eithin with Carl Kintan

0:09.7

live from post nine of the New York Stock Exchange. Today, stalemate. Iran reportedly stopping

0:14.6

negotiations with the U.S. and bowing to completely block the strait of Hormuz. We've got the right

0:20.3

guess. We'll break it down with

0:21.4

former Defense Secretary Mark Esper. Plus the rise of the prediction market's hitting a new

0:25.6

monthly volume record of more than 28 billion in May. The president looking to block those state

0:30.8

restrictions of the technology. We'll discuss it with the CEO of Kalshi, who will join us here at the

0:35.9

NYSC. And a potential breakthrough in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

0:40.2

New data showing an experimental drug from Revolution Medicines has proven broadly effective

0:45.0

against the tough to treat disease, and the company CEO is with us this hour.

0:49.1

Sarah mentioned the Iranian headlines this morning, took the wind out of futures,

0:52.4

and most of the market, S&P's down just a touch, but consumer discretionary down more than 2%.

0:58.1

Materials down 2% energy up almost 2 and a half is going to make it the best day for crude since April 2nd.

1:06.0

All that said, Vicks isn't moving too much to hanging around 16.

1:09.6

Well, you've still got a lot of the AI names higher,

1:12.0

Arm, Data Dog, Micron, all trading up, including Invidia after the company unveiled new chips

1:17.7

built for PCs. Christina Parsonevilles joins us now with the news on NVIDIA. Christina.

1:22.4

Yeah, InVita and Microsoft are actually teaming up to take on Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm,

1:26.8

specifically in the PC market.

1:29.3

At his keynote last night at Computex in Taipei, Jensen Wong unveiled the RTX Spark, which is

1:34.9

Nvidia's first processor for Windows PC. They're calling it the super chip, but it pairs a new custom

1:40.6

arm-based gray CPU. That's why arm shares are up with a Blackwell GPU designed for

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