Argentina’s forward #10 Lionel Messi kicks the ball during the Qatar 2022 World Cup final football match between Argentina and France at Lusail Stadium in Lusail, north of Doha on December 18, 2022. Kirill Kudryavtsev | Afp | Getty Images Alphabet-owned Google broke a search record thanks to the World Cup international soccer tournament. During…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that while Wall Street was focused on re-escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran, he is more concerned about a flood of new stock and bond issuance that could threaten the bull market. “At least when it comes to the stock market, I’m a lot more worried about supply —…
SpaceX stock closed at $148 on Wednesday, below the company’s first trading price of $150 per share for a second day in a row. Elon Musk‘s aerospace and defense contractor was included in the Nasdaq 100 index on Tuesday, less than a month after its stock market debut on June 12. The rapid inclusion in…
A rendering of Meta’s new 1GW, AI-optimized data center in Alberta, Canada. Courtesy: Meta Meta‘s AI expansion is heading north of the border. The company said in a blog post on Wednesday that it’s building its first data center in Canada, a 1 gigawatt facility in the province of Alberta that will cost Meta about…
U.S. lawmakers are considering how to curb the growing adoption of Chinese AI models by homegrown companies, as geopolitical tensions surrounding the rollout of artificial intelligence ramp up. AI has emerged as a key point of rivalry between the U.S. and China, with both nations vying for supremacy in the field. Chinese models are gaining…
The best defense is a good offense. That old sports adage seems to capture what Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to accomplish by standing up a cloud business. Shares of the Facebook and Instagram parent company soared nearly 9% last Wednesday, the day the company confirmed to Jim Cramer that a long-talked-about cloud service…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Wednesday’s key moments. 1. Stocks fell Wednesday after President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was effectively “over” and suggested the U.S. could launch additional military strikes. West Texas Intermediate crude climbed…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. This year’s FIFA World Cup isn’t over yet. But as CNBC’s Alex Sherman reports, media companies are already thinking about how to get rights to the next ones. Stock futures fell sharply this morning after President Donald Trump said the…
A line of Waymo robotaxis drives through North Beach on July 7, 2026 in San Francisco, California. Heather Diehl | Getty Images Waymo will begin rolling out its driverless vehicles in four new cities in the coming weeks, furthering its U.S. expansion and building on its lead over domestic rivals Tesla and Zoox, which is…
OpenAI Ceo Sam Altman speaks to journalists after meeting with US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images OpenAI said it will publicly release its GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna models on Thursday, roughly two weeks after the artificial intelligence…