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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. Good morning, I'm Nathan

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Speaker 1: Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're

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Speaker 1: following today.

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Speaker 2: Stocks are closing out the weekend record fashion optimism that

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Speaker 2: the FED will be able to engineer a soft landing

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Speaker 2: propelled the S and P five hundred to its twentieth

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Speaker 2: record this year. The Nasdaq one hundred also hit an

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Speaker 2: all time high. Cheryl Smith is portfolio manager at Trillia

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Speaker 2: Masset Management.

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Speaker 3: Equity market wants to believe, and wants to believe hard,

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Speaker 3: and is looking for every possible sign to go higher.

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Speaker 3: The fact is that we are twenty four months into

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Speaker 3: a FED tightening cycle, and that is about when we

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Speaker 3: normally see interest rate hikes begin to really affect the

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Speaker 2: Massive Management's Cheryl Smith notes, in just three months, the

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Speaker 2: S and P five hundred is already trading above the

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Speaker 2: average year end forecast of strategists tracked by Bloomberg Well Nathan.

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Speaker 1: Helping to fuel optimism was another successful trading debut of

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Speaker 1: an IPO social media company. Reddit rose forty eight percent yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Chief operating officer Jen Wong says the artificial revolution is

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Speaker 1: at the center of reddits value proposition.

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Speaker 4: Large language models need data to train on, and when

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Speaker 4: you look at Reddit's corpus nineteen years of human experience

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Speaker 4: organized by topic with well in moderation and relevance, that's

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Speaker 4: incredibly important to building both a chat capability and the

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Speaker 4: freshness of information. So that's an area where you know,

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Speaker 4: we see opportunity.

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Speaker 1: And Reddit's gen Wong Kele's Bloomberg. The firm is also

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Speaker 1: in the early stages of allowing third parties to license

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Speaker 2: In yesterday's closing price of fifty dollars and forty four cents, Karen,

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Speaker 2: Reddit has a market value of eight billion dollars includes

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Speaker 2: stock options and restricted share units. The company's fully diluted

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Speaker 2: valuation runs closer to nine and a half billion. Bloomberg

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Speaker 2: and Elligence analyst man Deep Singh explains what going public

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Speaker 5: A public company. I think they'll be forced to improve

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Speaker 5: their act in terms of, you know, showing more profitability.

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Speaker 5: I don't think there is scare in terms of cash

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Speaker 5: got a perfectly fine balance sheet, but now it's all

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Speaker 5: about showing monetization. And the LM. The generator bi aspect

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Intelligence analyst man Deep Sing argued even before the

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Speaker 2: pricing that Reddit could be worth as much as ten

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Speaker 1: On Nathan, several stocks are on the move this morning.

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Speaker 1: Shares of FedEx at more than twelve percent. Cost cutting

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Speaker 1: plans to buy back five billion dollars of its shares.

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Speaker 2: On the flip side, Careen shares of Lululemon are down

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Speaker 2: nearly thirteen percent. The athletic maker forecast lower than expected

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Speaker 2: sales outlook for the first quarter and the full year.

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Speaker 2: Lulu says visits to its stores in the US slowed

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Speaker 1: Also lower this morning. Shares of Nike they are down

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Speaker 1: almost seven percent this morning Nathan, the world's largest sports

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Speaker 1: later this year. Nike says it's working to realign merchandise

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Speaker 2: To buy, and investors have also taken a big bite

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Speaker 2: out of Apple's market value. In fact, that dropped one

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Speaker 2: after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced an antitrust lawsuit against

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Speaker 6: We allege that Apple has employed a strategy that relies

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Speaker 6: on exclusionary, anti competitive conduct that hurts both consumers and developers.

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Speaker 6: For consumers, that has meant fewer choices, higher prices and fees,

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Speaker 2: In Merrick Garland's Justice Department lawsuit has been strongly refuted

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Speaker 1: Turn to the economy Nathan and criticism of the Federal

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Speaker 7: My sense is still that the Fed is itchy fingers

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Speaker 1: And Larry Summers added that the Fed's current neutral policy

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Speaker 1: the full conversation on Bloomberg Wall Street Week today at

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Speaker 1: six pm Wall Street Time, on Bloomberg Radio and television on.

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Speaker 2: Capitol Hill, Karen. Another partial government shut down deadline is

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Speaker 2: just hours away. Funds run out for about seventy percent

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Speaker 2: the House will vote on a one point two trillion

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Speaker 2: Speaker Mike Johnson's bringing this bill up under a streamlined

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Speaker 2: process that requires two thirds support. Bloomberg's Kate Actly reports

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Speaker 2: the clock is ticking.

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Speaker 8: There's this sort of the pressure building two week recess

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Speaker 8: on the horizon. Everybody wants to get back to their districts. Yes,

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Speaker 8: it could fall apart, of course, but we have seen

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Kate Actly reports some Republicans are crying foul over

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Speaker 2: the process. Speaker Johnson is bypassing a House rule that

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Speaker 1: Well, now, Nathan, to the latest on the war in

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Speaker 1: the Middle Age. There are signs of progress toward a

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Speaker 1: possible Gaza peace agreement. At the same time, there are

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Speaker 1: threats of an invasion of Rolfa on Bloomberg's and Baxter

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Speaker 9: Delegations from Israel, the US, Cutter, and Egypt will meet

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Speaker 9: the invasion does not have to happen. But Israel's Minister

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Speaker 9: for Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, on a US podcast, hamas

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Speaker 10: Which you saw in October seventh, was a genocidal force

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Speaker 10: that wants to wipe out all the Jews. And it's

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Speaker 10: the first program that we've had since the birth of

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Speaker 10: the State of Israel. We have the ability to defend ourselves.

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Speaker 9: If there is not a peace deal, the assault will happen.

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Speaker 9: Ed Baxter, Bloomberg Radio, All right.

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Speaker 1: Ed, thank you, and it's time now for a look

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Speaker 1: at some of the other stories making news in New

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Speaker 1: York and around the world. And for that we're joined

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Speaker 1: by Bloomberg's Michael Varr Michael, good Morning.

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Speaker 11: Good Morning, Karon, and battled New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez

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Speaker 11: says he won't be seeking re election as a Democrat,

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Speaker 11: for his seat. Menendez and his wife Nadine are facing

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Speaker 11: In the video he posted on social media, Menendez talented

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Speaker 12: This would allow me the time to not only remind

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Speaker 12: New Jerseyans of how I've succeeded in being your champion,

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Speaker 11: If Menendez does run as an independent, he would face

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Speaker 11: one of two Democratic candidates in November, Governor Phil Murphy's

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Speaker 11: began last week when fifty two year old Nadia Vittel

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Speaker 11: It's believed the suspected squanders took the Dell's car and

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Speaker 11: fled to Pennsylvania. Adult film actress Stormy Daniel says she

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Speaker 11: is absolutely ready to testify against her former President Trump

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Speaker 1: All right, Michael, thank you. Time now for the Bloomberg

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Speaker 14: For that, we bring in John Stanshower. John, good morning,

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Speaker 14: Good morning Karen. First round is what makes the NCAA

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Speaker 14: tournament so special. So we see it every year, smaller

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Speaker 14: The players don't get nil money, and the upset a heavyweight.

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Speaker 14: We saw two years ago with Saint Peter's last year,

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Speaker 14: Oakland University from Rochester, Michigan, a loser of eleven games,

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Speaker 14: to seventy six. Jack Goldkie scored thirty two, made ten

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Speaker 15: Obviously we come in were the underdog by all measures,

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Speaker 16: He got fired by Long Beach State, but his team

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Speaker 16: the Nets, who lost their fifth in a row one

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Speaker 17: and the Bloomberg Business app. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning.

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Speaker 17: I'm Nathan Hager.

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Speaker 2: Social media company read It made its much anticipated trading

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Speaker 2: debut yesterday, marking the fourth largest initial public offering on

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Speaker 2: a US exchange this year. Shares swored forty eight percent

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Speaker 2: above their IPO price, closing at fifty dollars forty four cents.

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Speaker 2: Investors are betting big on Reddit's vision of profit from

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Speaker 2: the growth in artificial intelligence. Reddit's chief operating officer, Jen

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Speaker 2: Wong joined Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to talk

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Speaker 2: about how Reddit plans to leverage AI to increase its

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Speaker 2: value and how going public is giving the company plenty

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Speaker 2: of momentum.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's certainly a lot of press on a day

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Speaker 4: like today, it is a special day. But becoming a

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Speaker 4: public company has just made us a better company. We've

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Speaker 4: actually been in this process longer than most almost two

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Speaker 4: years actually, and that process has made us more disciplined,

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Speaker 4: more operationally rigorous, and actually allowed us to get to

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Speaker 4: know investors better and tell our story. And so this

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Speaker 4: whole process has made us a better company, and we're

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Speaker 4: prepared to be a public company. I think it's actually

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Speaker 4: been really good for us, and I think companies that

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Speaker 4: you can.

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Speaker 18: Go public it's sort of a duty.

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Speaker 4: It's part of the you know, process of maturing as

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Speaker 4: a company.

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Speaker 18: And then the benefit of.

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Speaker 4: Having our sharehold our employee employees have liquidity which we

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Speaker 4: promise to them, and in addition, have our communities and

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Speaker 4: users be able to be shareholders.

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Speaker 18: Makes a lot of sense for Reddit.

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Speaker 19: The evolution of the story is for you moving away

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Speaker 19: from a solely advertising based business model to one way

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Speaker 19: you license your user data to the companies that are

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Speaker 19: building large language models. I just asked if you could

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Speaker 19: explain to our audience how that works in practice, how

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Speaker 19: you're going to grow that business.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, just ahead of addressing that, I just wanted

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Speaker 4: to write context. One of the things that's so special

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Speaker 4: about Reddit is that we play in three big addressable markets.

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Speaker 4: We have this core advertising business. Adds is a great business,

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Speaker 4: it's still early, we have great traction and momentum.

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Speaker 18: That's our core business.

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Speaker 4: We have an emerging data licensing business that we built

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Speaker 4: the foundations for last year because Reddit's corpus of information

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Speaker 4: is incredibly important to the training of large language models

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Speaker 4: and also for insights for different kinds of businesses. And

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Speaker 4: the third is a user economy where our communities go

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Speaker 4: beyond conversation and to be able to transact with each other.

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Speaker 4: Now you asked about the data licensing business, which we

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Speaker 4: built the foundations for last year.

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Speaker 18: That has two pieces to it.

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Speaker 4: It is a piece that's sort of well established, where

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Speaker 4: there's social listening for marketing for companies who want to

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Speaker 4: understand what's happening on reddits.

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Speaker 18: And for marketing campaigns.

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Speaker 4: There's also financial services companies who are interested in that.

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Speaker 4: Those are well established markets. And then there's the new

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Speaker 4: emerging market of AI where large language models need data

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Speaker 4: to train on. And when you look at Reddit's corpus,

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Speaker 4: nineteen years of human experience organized by topic with well

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Speaker 4: in moderation and relevance, that's incredibly important to building both

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Speaker 4: a chat capability and the freshness of information. So that's

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Speaker 4: an area where you know, we see opportunity. I think

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Speaker 4: what that signals, you know, whether it shows up honestly

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Speaker 4: in our revenue or it shows up in the value

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Speaker 4: of Reddit is how valuable Reddit is? You know, the

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Speaker 4: more that we move toward this AI world, that corpus

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Speaker 4: and that knowledge and refreshment of human experience becomes more valuable.

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Speaker 20: Those lms, the models are being built a new and

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Speaker 20: different ways. This actual technology also develops. I'm interested as

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Speaker 20: to really whether this goes on in perpetuity. Do you

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Speaker 20: see this sort of licensing being steady and secure for ten.

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Speaker 18: Years from now?

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Speaker 4: This is so early in this emergence of this technology,

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Speaker 4: it's hard to see far out. The way I think

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Speaker 4: about it, the way we think about it is this,

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Speaker 4: the redd Its corpus of data is incredibly valuable, and

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Speaker 4: it gets more valuable because as there's more more content

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Speaker 4: that's generated, maybe by AI or computers, original human thoughts

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Speaker 4: and ideas increase in value. Right if you think about it,

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Speaker 4: a new car comes out, who's going to review it?

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Speaker 18: A real life.

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Speaker 4: Family of six can actually tell you what it's like

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Speaker 4: to drive that car. That's always going to be valuable.

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Speaker 4: And so you know, whether that shows up in data

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Speaker 4: licensing or in the products that Reddit built, it is valuable.

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