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Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.

Today on Squawk Pod.

Investor Howard Marks, co-chairman of major private credit player, Oak Tree Capital.

There's nothing wrong with lending money to companies.

The question is, do you do it wisely?

With $223 billion under management, Marx is offering some advice for the investor class.

If you want to be a superior investor, your job can be reduced to, I want to take advantage of the mistakes that other people make.

And weighing in on prediction markets.

Well, it's entertainment. Like any casino, it's not a fundamental bed.

Then innovation in healthcare, former FDA Commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb,

on psychedelics regulation and Eli Lilly's deal to expand its cancer treatment pipeline.

The technology around cancer vaccines, what people call broadly cancer vaccines, ways to

try to train the immune system to recognize cancer.

We've been working on these for probably three decades now.

Plus...

I'm thinking about AI like washing machines.

AI at work even, at the NSA, Anthropics in the government, even though the government

has named it a risk?

It's such a joke.

We just say it's such a joke.

These are like talks with Iran.

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