Good morning, it is midnight in beijing its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. Its the end of cloud week on squawk alley. What a week its been. They have brought news on custom chips, Machine Learning and more sales force announced plans to buy slack for nearly 28 billion in the second largest Software Deal ever. Weve had ibm and microsoft weigh in snowflake and others have turned in blah earnings well hear from the ceo this hour what does it mean for investors already sky high investor malic noijoins us now i cant believe we never had you on squawk alley before i hope this is a trend i want to start with sales force slack. I know that you have known stu butterfield for a long time, even before flicker was a hit. You think this very expensive deal makes sense why . So lets remove the price out of the equation. I think what youre looking at right now is in 2020, we have gone from the idea
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. Hugh laurie. Writer and actress, rachel bloom music from lp. Featuring the 8g band with Valerie Franco and now seth meyers. Seth good evening, im seth meyers. This is late night. How is everybody doing tonight thats great to hear lets get to the news. Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger said yesterday that republican senator Lindsey Graham pressured him to find a way to toss legally cast absentee ballots to reverse President Trumps loss in the state man, just when you think Lindsey Graham couldnt sink any lower. Why would you think that according to the new york times, President Trump last week asked his senior advisers about moving ahead with a military strike in iran. And i think its a bad sign that im just relieved he didnt ask about michigan maybe just the upper part the upper finger im pretty sure its called the finger. President elect joe biden has reportedly told advisers privately that he doesnt want to spend his entir
Lashing today over how their companies handled 2020 election. Heck out few hours indicating a decline as we await october retail Sales Numbers out this morning at 8 30 a. M. Dow industrials down 88, nasdaq is up 14 and s p 500 lower by 14. Record day in wall street to start the week yesterday, dow finishing at its first alltime high in 9 months boosted by the positive news on modernas phase 3 vaccine trials. At the close up 471 points, nasdaq up 95, almost 1 and s p higher by 41, better than 1 . Big day for retail earnings, walmart and kohls and home depot all reporting this morning, we will have the numbers as soon as they give hit the tape. Holidays in digital world. Zoom is helping you and your family out if youre planning on a virtual turkey day, its making a buzz, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria home depot earnings hitting the tape right now and european markets are lower, cac quarante down 9, dax index lower by 25, take a look at home depot numbers, revenue above exp
Intelligence creates things weve never seen or heard before. Like gustav mahler, unfinished 10th symphony now completed in its entirety. I am the deep Neural Network news net has managed to complete with the composer, couldnt, ai is invading our lives and the arts. Just how much is the subject of ones research, age rector of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in berlin. He talks with us about ai and how to deal with Intelligent Machines with your head of their research center, humans and machines. Why do you think its important to study the everything machines . Because machines are in new act or in our world . You know, this is the 1st time that weve created a tool that can make decisions on its own. Its going to be driving cars. Its going to be making decisions about who gets higher than 500 and its going to help us create art and so on. So what would you say are the possible scenarios were looking at in the near future . The problem with Machine Learning is that it might
Trevor lets get straight into the big news over the weekend. Yeah, i finally learned how to dunk boom turns out you just need to make the net a little closer to the ground. Dont know why i didnt think about that. Also this happens. Cnn projects joseph r. Biden, jr. Elected the 46th president of the president of the united states. There was jubilee as people flooded the streets celebrating from the white house to the west coast. Celebrations in the streets. In new york city the trystate and across the world. In the streets of the largest cities, today a party. In President Trumps hometown new york city, biden supporters shouted out their windows. There were bands and champagne. Whoo costumes and tears. An impromptu dance party broke out. Had sweet caroline sing alongs and nah nah nah goodbye sing along. Trevor oh, yeah, what a day, what a day, what a day, now, people were out in the streets dancing, they were partying, singing sweet caroline which is genius because any generation singin