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Amazon Web Services Inc. signage at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, on March 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday, taking down numerous big-name websites. AWS cited an “operational issue” affecting “multiple […]

Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images A judge ordered that X and xAI’s lawsuit accusing Apple and OpenAI of trying to maintain monopolies in artificial intelligence markets must remain in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, despite “at best minimal connections” to that geographic area by any of the companies. Judge […]

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in 2025. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is doing all it can to keep pace with larger rival OpenAI, which is spending money at a historic pace with backing from Microsoft and Nvidia. Of late, […]

More companies are announcing AI-driven layoffs from Salesforce to Accenture. Twenty20 From tech to airlines, large global companies have been slashing staff as the real-world impact of artificial intelligence plays out, spooking employees. But critics say AI has become an easy excuse for firms looking to downsize. Last month, tech consultancy firm Lufthansa to cut […]

The Kalshi logo arranged on a laptop in New York, US, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Close to half of Kalshi’s user base experienced glitches and delays on Saturday during college football games, a major source of trades, as some said they were temporarily unable to process orders. […]

AI headshots are becoming popular on LinkedIn and in professional portfolios as job seekers look for affordable profile pictures to give them an edge. Since first impressions happen almost entirely through a screen, a clean, appealing photo is as important as a strong resume. And in a competitive job market, a good headshot can make […]

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters Top proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services is recommending that Tesla investors vote against a pay plan for CEO Elon Musk that would grant him nearly $1 trillion more […]

A demo setup of racks of AI servers connected with Credo cables, displayed at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose, California. Credo In July, Elon Musk posted photos from inside an xAI data center called Colossus 2, which the artificial intelligence startup aims to turn into a massive supercomputing facility in Memphis, Tennessee. Musk’s […]

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized on Friday for making comments in support of President Donald Trump potentially sending federal troops to San Francisco, where his company is based.  “Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history, I do not believe the […]

Oracle’s extended rally, which has been driven by the company’s increasingly central position in the artificial intelligence boom, hit pause on Friday, with the stock tumbling 7%, its worst day since January. The slide came a day after the software company revealed a long-term outlook, boosted by AI, at an analysts’ meeting that was part […]

The impact of artificial intelligence is being felt across the health-care industry, from tools that help analyze medical images, aid in drug discovery and complete cancer screenings. But increasingly, AI is being used to fight one of the biggest challenges that health care is facing: a time-challenged (and often burned out) workforce of doctors, nurses […]

Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards Kremlin envoy proposes ‘Putin-Trump tunnel’ to link Russia and U.S. Reuters An investment envoy for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday entreated Elon Musk and his tunneling business, the Boring Company, to commit to building an undersea rail tunnel through the Bering Strait to be partly funded by Moscow. Kirill […]

Electricity companies across the U.S. are struggling to figure out how much demand will actually materialize from the artificial intelligence boom, as the stock market speculates that vast sums of money will be spent on infrastructure to support a big data center buildout. “There is a question about whether or not all of the projections, […]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing crowd of demonstrators outside the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images OpenAI halted artificial intelligence-generated videos of Martin Luther King Jr. after users utilized its short-form video tool Sora to create “disrespectful depictions” of the civil […]

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta on Friday announced new safety features that will allow parents to see and manage how their teenagers are interacting with artificial intelligence […]

An automatic teller machine at the Zions Bank headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 10, 2023. Kim Raff | Bloomberg | Getty Images This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Calling the […]

Robotaxi operator Pony.ai has begun testing rides with human staff inside between a suburb of Beijing and a major high-speed train station. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng Chinese robotaxi company Pony.ai announced Friday it is working with Stellantis for testing self-driving taxis in Europe. The companies said they will start tests in the coming months in […]

Ron Conway, founder of SV Angel, speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2015 conference in New York on May 4, 2015. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Days after suggesting that President Donald Trump should send federal troops to San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is facing some consequences. Prominent startup investor Ron Conway, […]

Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 AI glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images EssilorLuxottica said a healthy amount of its revenue growth in the third quarter was due to its partnership with Meta, primarily from its Ray-Ban brand, to […]

Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, center, speaks on a media tour of the Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2025. Stargate is a collaboration of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, with promotional support from President Donald Trump, to build data centers and other infrastructure for artificial intelligence throughout the US. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg […]

Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images U.S. cybersecurity company F5 fell 12% on Thursday after disclosing a system breach in which a “highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor” gained long-term access to some systems. F5 shares were pacing for the worst day since April 27, 2022, when the stock fell 12.8%. The […]

Salesforce struck back. The business software maker on Wednesday unveiled an optimistic, multiyear financial roadmap that rejects the sluggish-growth narrative that has been dogging the stock. “It’s the old Salesforce, and I’ve been waiting for the old Salesforce,” Jim Cramer said Thursday morning on CNBC. Shares of Salesforce are up more than 4% Thursday on […]

The FlockOS software in use within law enforcement, and where the Ring Community Requests will originate. Flock Safety Amazon’s Ring security cameras are moving deeper into law enforcement work in a new deal with Flock Safety that will allow citizens who own Ring cameras to share footage that can assist in crime investigations, making the […]

Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc., speaks during an unveiling event in New York, US, on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images Uber plans to offer drivers and couriers in the U.S. ways to make money through the company’s app when they’re not ferrying around people or […]

Aerospace manufacturer BETA Technologies’ electric aircraft, ALIA, is seen at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City, U.S., June 3, 2025. It is the first Advanced Air Mobility flight into JFK Airport. Kylie Cooper | Reuters Beta Technologies updated the prospectus for its initial public offering on Wednesday, setting a price range that could […]

Microsoft Executive Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi speaks at company headquarters in Redmond, Wash., on May 20, 2024. Microsoft unveiled a new category of PC that features generative artificial intelligence tools built into the Windows operating system. Microsoft estimates that over 50 million AI PCs will be sold over the next […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaking at the CNBC Invest In America Forum in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 15, 2025. Aaron Clamage | CNBC This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Tariff troubles As the […]

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has pledged to spend more than $50 billion on artificial intelligence over the next three years. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng SHANGHAI — Chinese tech giant Alibaba is already recouping its investment on artificial intelligence in the company’s e-commerce business, vice president Kaifu Zhang told reporters on Thursday. The Chinese tech giant […]

Upgrade CEO Renaud Laplanche speaks at a conference in Brooklyn, New York, in 2018. Alex Flynn | Bloomberg via Getty Images Upgrade, the online lender started by LendingClub founder Renaud Laplanche, has raised a new round of funding that values the startup at $7.3 billion. The company said in a press release on Thursday that […]

A Paypal logo is seen displayed on a smartphone next to cryptocurrency coins. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Paxos, the blockchain partner of PayPal, mistakenly minted $300 trillion worth of the online payment giant’s stablecoin on Wednesday in what the company called a “technical error.”  Market watchers had spotted the enormous injection of […]