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China Expands Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss how China is tightening its grip on AI by targeting top AI professionals' overseas travel. Plus, big banks are looking to hire more AI specialists and shrink traditional banking roles, and SpaceX kicks off a tech IPO bonanza.

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:32.2

Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts Radio News.

0:41.9

Thank you. Radio Studios. Podcasts, Radio News. Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast with Caroline Hyde in New York and Ed Lovelow in San Francisco.

0:52.5

This is Bloomberg Tech coming up. China tightens its grip on AI, this time targeting overseas

0:58.3

travel by top AI professionals. Plus how big banks are looking to hire more AI specialists

1:04.0

and shrink traditional banking roles. And we'll look at the tech IPO landscape as SpaceX kicks

1:09.8

off an IPO Bonanza. And quite the timing for any sort of IPO right now because at a new record high once again, Ed, it's risk on. And that means we're buying semiconductors, we're buying hardware. The NASDAQ 100 at a new record high. We're up 1.7% on an intraday basis, that is. We're looking at the semiconductor index on fire. We're up 5% for the socks.

1:30.3

Why dig into some of the individual movers? We're seeing Micron at a new record high as we see analysts all pile in an extraordinary uplift from UBS in terms of a price target that more than doubles from where it's currently trading.

1:42.3

We're up 17% for Micron. But also you're shining a light what's happening with Qualcomm getting a real boost as

1:47.9

well. As we start to see new buyers of its A6, it's all about the hardware, Ed. From Asia to the

1:54.2

US session, there's a massive rally in chip stocks also because of a breakthrough in technology.

1:59.6

China's Huawei says it has a new

2:01.6

technique, logic folding, that changes how a signal passes through a transistor. So you can do away

2:08.3

with extreme miniaturization. You don't have to worry about the limits of extreme ultraviolet

2:13.2

lithography. It's a new design, but also method of chip manufacturing. And that has really sent

2:18.3

all kinds of chip stocks or supply chain exposure stocks, sending much higher. Here's the catch.

2:24.8

This is a technology that's many years away. Let's get more with Bloomberg Senior Tech Editor,

2:29.0

Mike Shepard. You know, it's so interesting because Huawei is coming out saying,

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