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Former Meta global affairs chief Nick Clegg said Friday that tech companies should keep a distance from politics and people should feel “uneasy” about those firms intervening in the public space. “I generally don’t think that politics and tech innovation mixes very well,” Clegg told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I think it’s quite good when they kind […]

Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic is stepping up its global enterprise ambitions. The $183 billion artificial intelligence startup has grown its business customer base from under 1,000 to more than 300,000 in just two years, as demand for Claude‘s models accelerates across industries and regions. On Friday, the company […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman listens to questions at a Q&A following a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters This week, OpenAI redefined what momentum — and risk — look like in the artificial intelligence arms race. Now comes the hard part: Executing on CEO […]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gestures as U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) delivers remarks during the “Winning the AI Race” Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters Nvidia this week said it’ll invest $100 billion into OpenAI in a deal that highlights just how big the chipmaker’s investment portfolio has […]

A car equipped with Momenta technology on display at the IAA Mobility show in Munich, Germany in September 2025. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC Momenta, a Chinese driverless technology startup, is raising a fresh round of funding that could value the company at around $6 billion, two people familiar with the matter told CNBC. The valuation […]

Google CEO Sundar Pichai waves as he arrives to attend the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, February 11, 2025. Benoit Tessier | Reuters Google long touted the need for factually accurate information on its platforms, but a letter submitted to Congress this week demonstrates how the tech company […]

In this photo illustration, the logo of Xiaomi’s XRing O1 chipset is seen on May 19, 2025 in Beijing, China. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun announced on the evening of May 15 that the company’s self-developed smartphone SoC, XRING 01, will be officially launched in late May. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Chinese […]

Guillaume Pousaz, CEO and founder of payment platform Checkout.com, speaking at the annual Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2022. Horacio Villalobos | Getty Images LONDON — Fintech unicorn Checkout.com is giving staff a way of cashing in their shares: buying them out. The London-headquartered payments platform said Friday that it plans to […]

A crane towers above the mobile launcher 2 adjacent the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. Richard Tribou | Tribune News Service | Getty Images The director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Joseph Pelfrey, announced his resignation from the role on Thursday, CNBC confirmed. Pelfrey said in an […]

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 Tesla shares fell more than 4% on Thursday after data out of Europe showed a continuing sales slump for the automaker, despite strong demand for fully […]

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in 2025. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images A federal judge on Thursday preliminarily approved Anthropic’s offer to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of authors, in what will be the largest publicly reported […]

Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order approving a proposal that would keep TikTok alive in the U.S. in a transaction that Vice President JD Vance said values the business at $14 billion. The deal satisfies the requirements of a national security law requiring China-based […]

Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company duped users into paying for Prime memberships, the regulatory agency announced Thursday. The surprise settlement comes as Amazon and the FTC were just three days into the trial in a Seattle federal court. Opening arguments in the case occurred Tuesday, but […]

Oracle, Silver Lake & Abu Dhabi’s MGX will be main investors in TikTok’s U.S. business, sources told CNBC’s David Faber on Thursday.  Those three entities will control roughly 45% of TikTok USA, Faber reported. ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent, will own 19.9%, with the remaining 35% in the hands of ByteDance investors and new holders. President […]

Microsoft President Brad Smith, left, speaks at a press conference on future visions for the development and application of artificial intelligence in education in North Rhine-Westphalia at the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Berlin on June 4, 2025. To his right is Hendrik Wüst (CDU), Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, in front […]

Michael Intrator, co-founder and chief executive officer of CoreWeave Inc., during an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images CoreWeave on Thursday announced a $6.5 billion deal with OpenAI, expanding its current agreement with the […]

Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks OpenAI and Databricks are two of the most highly valued tech startups on the planet. Now they’re working together. Databricks, a data analytics software vendor, said Thursday that it has committed to spending $100 million over multiple years with OpenAI. Databricks is making it easier for customers to […]

Thomas Lohnes | Getty Images The European Commission launched an antitrust probe into German software behemoth SAP on Thursday, citing concerns about the company’s practices in software support services. According to the Commission, the investigation will assess “whether SAP may have distorted competition in the aftermarket for maintenance and support services related to an on-premises type of […]

A Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition on display during VivaTech 2025 tech conference in Paris, France. Chesnot | Getty Images British artificial intelligence infrastructure firm Nscale is raising heaps of cash as it looks to ramp up the deployment of AI data centers across Europe. Nscale, which is based in London, said Thursday […]

Light uses artificial intelligence to automate companies’ finance and accounting functions. Light Danish startup Light is the latest in a series of European tech firms raising cash as venture capitalists search for the next big thing in artificial intelligence. Founded in 2022, Light develops software that uses AI to automate various functions that exist within […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to media following a Q&A at the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters Nvidia’s massive investment in OpenAI, announced earlier this week, will put billions of dollars into the coffers of the artificial intelligence startup to use as it sees fit. But […]

Instagram has installed a new privacy setting which will default all new and existing underage accounts to an automatic private mode. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on his Instagram account on Wednesday. “What an incredible community we’ve built here,” Zuckerberg posted on […]

Xiaomi launched the Xiaomi 15T series of smartphones as it continues its global expansion. Xiaomi MUNICH — Xiaomi on Wednesday made the international debut of a slew of new devices and appliances with its smartphones at the center, as the Chinese tech giant sets out to directly challenge Samsung. The Beijing-headquartered company took the wraps […]

President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter before signing executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on September 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images It’s been a chaotic few days for the tech sector, and industry executives and experts are still assessing how U.S. President Donald […]

Alibaba‘s Hong Kong-listed shares surged on Wednesday to reach their highest point since 2021 after the company said it will invest more in artificial intelligence and rolled out new AI products and updates.  Shares of the company jumped over 6%, while its total gains year to date rose above 107%.  The tech giant plans to […]

Venezuelan Bolivar and U.S. Dollar banknotes and representations of cryptocurrency Tether are seen in this illustration taken Sept. 8, 2025. Dado Ruvic | Array Tether, the issuer of the largest stablecoin, is planning to raise as much as $20 billion in a deal that could put the crypto company’s value on par with OpenAI, according […]

A person walks by a sign for Micron Technology headquarters in San Jose, California, on June 25, 2025. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Micron reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue on Tuesday as well as a robust forecast for the current quarter. The stock rose in extended trading. Here’s how the company did in comparison with […]

Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday said it will soon allow previously banned accounts to apply for reinstatement, rolling back a policy that had treated violations as permanent. The change applies to channels removed for posting Covid-19 or election-related misinformation, according to a letter from Alphabet lawyer Daniel Donovan to […]

People walk past an Amazon Fresh store in Washington, DC, on August 26, 2021. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images Amazon plans to close all of its Fresh supermarkets in the U.K., in the latest recalibration of its grocery strategy. The company said in a Tuesday blog that it’s preparing to close all 19 […]

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (L), and Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia. Reuters ABILENE, Texas – Sam Altman had a deadline. OpenAI’s CEO was headed to Texas to unveil his company’s next big infrastructure push, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wanted in on the action. Through a series of hurried negotiations, late-night calls and last-minute […]