Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google on Wednesday announced that it is bringing more of its Gemini AI features to its Chrome browser, the latest in the company’s efforts to put its new-age tech front and center for users. The Gemini-powered features include the image generation tool Nano Banana, Google’s “Personal Intelligence” feature…
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., wears a pair of Meta Oakley Vanguard AI glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta on Wednesday will report fourth-quarter earnings, and investors will be looking for any…
US businessman Tim Cook looks on during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on Jan. 20, 2026. Ludovic Marin | AFP | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook said he was “heartbroken” by the situation in Minneapolis and called for an easing of tensions in a note to employees this week, CNBC…
The polling site at Davies Student Center on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024 at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty Images The age of the AI super PAC is here, and it has ballot boxes across the U.S. in its sites ahead of…
Alex Dhillon, CEO and founder of Outtake Courtesy: Abiola Familusi Alex Dhillon spent almost five years at Palantir before leaving to build cybersecurity startup Outtake. Now his former boss is helping fuel his new company’s growth, alongside a roster of investors that includes Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Outtake, which counts OpenAI and Bill Ackman’s Pershing…
One year after DeepSeek upended the U.S. markets, investors are bracing for what could be the next moment of reckoning out of China: A rapid and coordinated push to scale home-grown Nvidia rivals for artificial intelligence chips. In just the past two months, four startups, dubbed China’s “four dragons,” have already gone public or filed…
Amazon said Wednesday it plans to eliminate about 16,000 corporate jobs, marking its second round of mass job cuts since last October. In a blog post, the company wrote that the layoffs were part of an ongoing effort to “strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy.” That coincides with a push…
Illustration of the SK Hynix logo displayed on a phone screen. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images South Korean memory giant SK Hynix announced Wednesday that it will set up a new U.S.-based company focused on artificial intelligence solutions, committing at least $10 billion as it seizes on new AI growth engines. The new…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. Today we tell you about the five-year anniversary of the meme stock frenzy, which has me thinking it’s finally time to watch “Dumb Money.” S&P 500 futures are little changed. The three major indexes are coming off a winning day….
Signage at the SK Hynix Inc. booth at the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. The expo runs through Nov. 10. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images South Korea’s SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, boosted by surging…