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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. Guests at my home will be pleased to know that I, despite personal fascination, live outside the delivery radius of this shower water beer. Stock futures are little changed this morning. The market is coming off another winning session. Here […]

Packages in a United States Postal Service (USPS) truck near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon has angered some online retailers that say they didn’t consent to have their products scraped and listed on the e-commerce giant’s sprawling […]

A startup in the clean water space is making a curious bet on beer. Curious, because the beer is made from recycled shower and laundry water. San Francisco-based Epic Cleantec launched in 2015 as a wastewater recycling company using its proprietary technology to clean and re-use water in office and apartment buildings. At the time, […]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the 2026 CES event in Las Vegas, Jan. 6, 2026. Bridget Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday said that the company is seeing “very high” customer demand in China for its H200 AI chips, which the U.S. government recently signaled that it would […]

Dado Ruvic | Reuters Meta said Tuesday that it hired former Microsoft legal executive Curtis Joseph Mahoney to become its chief legal officer. Mahoney will replace Meta’s previous head lawyer Jennifer Newstead, who announced in December that she would be leaving Meta to become Apple’s general counsel in March. He joins Meta at a time […]

Elon Musk attends the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 19, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Elon Musk’s xAI said it raised $20 billion in a funding round, exceeding its prior target of $15 billion. CNBC reported in November that a financing would value the artificial intelligence startup at about $230 billion. After […]

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su said Tuesday that artificial intelligence has not slowed the pace of hiring at her company, but the job candidates who have truly embraced the technology have become a priority. “I would say that we’re actually not hiring fewer people,” Su told CNBC’s Jon Fortt on Tuesday from the CES […]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters Meta Platforms said Tuesday that it’s delaying the international expansion of its […]

This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. We’re not even a week into the new year and I’ve already started telling myself that my resolution to read more can include reviewing drafts of this newsletter. Stock futures are little changed this morning. The market is coming off […]

Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Software startup NinjaOne has surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue, or ARR, the company announced Tuesday. The IT management platform saw revenue grow nearly 70% year over year and its customer base increase more than 60% over the last year to 35,000. President and […]

CNBC is now accepting applications for the 2026 Disruptor 50 list — our fourteenth annual look at venture-backed companies innovating across industries, experimenting with AI and, increasingly, making it work at scale. The deadline for submissions is Monday, Feb. 23 at 11:59 pm EST. All independent, privately-owned companies founded after Jan. 1, 2011, are eligible, […]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. Michael Nagle| Bloomberg | Getty Images Semiconductor stocks rallied to start the year, led by the world’s biggest memory chip firms that are getting a boost from continued artificial intelligence-related […]

Following the U.S. military operation in Venezuela that led to the removal of its leader, Nicolas Maduro, AI-generated videos purporting to show Venezuelan citizens celebrating in the streets have gone viral on social media. These artificial intelligence clips, depicting rejoicing crowds, have amassed millions of views across major platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X.  One […]

Nearly a year ago, DeepSeek shook the AI world.  Stocks of some of the leading Western tech companies plunged as the markets hit panic mode at the prospect of a new model from a relatively unheard of Chinese AI lab that challenged the premise of U.S. dominance in the space. Nvidia plummeted 17%, losing close […]

Elon musk and the xAI logo. Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images Elon Musk‘s X is being investigated by authorities in Europe, India and Malaysia after its Grok chatbot let users create and share AI-generated sexualized images of children and women. British media watchdog Ofcom also said it’s requested information from X, which is […]

Nvidia is building out an automotive tech business. Pictured here are its autonomous vehicle test cars at the company’s auto garage in Santa Clara, California, June 5, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia on Monday unveiled plans to test a robotaxi service with a partner as soon as 2027, highlighting the chipmaker’s ambition […]

Mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan, speaks during the NWSL Championship Welcome Reception at Rotunda at San Jose City Hall in San Jose, California, on Nov. 20, 2025. Eakin Howard | Nwsl | Getty Images The Democratic mayor of San Jose, California, has come out against a proposed statewide ballot measure that would ask voters […]

Yuichiro Chino | Moment | Getty Images E-commerce logistics startup Stord has bought CEVA Logistics subsidiary Shipwire, the company said Monday. The deal, which closed Jan. 1 for a undisclosed amount, adds 12 new locations to Stord’s growing logistics network and about 60 new employees. Shipwire is an AI fulfillment platform used by e-commerce firms. […]

Alexa+ signage during an unveiling event in New York, Feb. 26, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon on Monday launched an Alexa+ website that lets some users chat with its assistant via their browser, putting it in more direct competition with OpenAI‘s ChatGPT. The Alexa.com website is only available to users of […]

Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta Platforms, at the VivaTech conference in Paris, May 22, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta’s former chief AI scientist, Yann Lecun, has called its 29-year-old AI boss “inexperienced,” and warned of a staff exodus from the company. Alexander Wang, the billionaire co-founder of Scale AI, joined […]

Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said Monday that artificial intelligence is causing big companies to slow hiring, and that many businesses are seeing “real productivity gains” because of the technology. Kashkari said companies have told him that AI is affecting their hiring plans, and he expects to see continued low hiring and low firing in […]

This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Good morning. It was anything but a quiet weekend for news, so I’ll cut to the chase. S&P 500 futures are up slightly this morning. The market is coming off a losing week. Here are five key things investors need to know […]

Foxconn, a major partner for Nvidia, has reported a 22% surge in revenues in the final quarter of 2025, as tech firms continue to ramp up spending on AI infrastructure. Also known as Hon Hai, Foxconn reported revenues of 2.6 trillion Taiwan dollars ($83 billion) in the quarter up to December, as its components and […]

A trader wears “2026” glasses on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images May this year prove as lucrative as 2025, when the S&P 500 rallied 16.39% mostly on the back of enthusiasm over artificial intelligence. Other […]

SpaceX headquarters is shown in Hawthorne, California, U.S. June 5, 2025. Daniel Cole | Reuters Elon Musk’s Starlink is offering free broadband internet service to users in Venezuela through Feb. 3, following U.S. airstrikes and the capture of ousted leader Nicolas Maduro.  The satellite internet provider said in a release on Sunday that service credits […]

A trader wears “2026” glasses on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images May this year prove as lucrative as 2025, when the S&P 500 rallied 16.39% mostly on the back of enthusiasm over artificial intelligence, though […]

Friday marked the end of a lackluster week for stocks and the first trading session of 2026. The market was mixed for the holiday-shortened week: The Dow and Nasdaq shed 0.1% and 1.5%, respectively, while the S & P 500 edged roughly 1% lower, its third back-to-back loss since Monday. It’s unclear what caused the […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Inside Anthropic headquarters, President and co-founder Daniela Amodei keeps coming back to a phrase that’s become a sort of governing principle for the artificial intelligence startup’s entire strategy: Do more with less. It’s a direct challenge to the prevailing mood across Silicon Valley, where the biggest labs and their backers are treating […]

The Russian-U.S. national who hacked crypto exchange Bitfinex and stole nearly 120,000 bitcoin said he has been freed from prison early thanks to the bipartisan prison-reform law signed by President Donald Trump. Ilya Lichtenstein, 38, had been sentenced in November 2024 to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a money laundering conspiracy charge […]

Chipmaking stocks rallied to kick off 2026 as investors piled into the winning artificial intelligence-fueled sector following another big year of gains. Dutch chip equipment maker ASML surged 9%, while Micron Technology jumped 8% to start the new trading year. Lam Research and Intel rallied about 7% each, while Marvell Technology rose 5%. Advanced Micro […]