Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, speaking at the AI company’s developer conference on Sept. 29, 2026. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty Images OpenAI is closing in on a funding round that could value the artificial intelligence giant at more than $1 trillion ahead of a potential initial public offering. …
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (top) looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks to the press after a meeting with technology executives about artificial intelligence at the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept. 29, 2026. Kent Nishimura | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk’s business empire is tying itself ever closer to the federal…
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 shares slumped roughly 6% on Thursday as the social media giant…
Nonprofit evaluators METR and Redwood Research on Thursday said they conducted a pilot review of an internal monitoring system at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company’s latest effort to determine how it will deepen its work with third-party safety organizations. METR and Redwood said the exercise was designed for OpenAI to test what it would look…
Soldiers from a separate task rifle battalion of the National Police of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region set up a Starlink satellite communication terminal at a combat position in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Oct. 16, 2026. Dmytro Smolienko | Ukrinform | Future Publishing | Getty Images Elon Musk‘s latest clash with Ukraine underscores the critical…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Hello, this is Leonie Kidd with today’s edition of Morning Squawk. The pickup in volume during super early trading has been overwhelmingly to the downside. Futures are worse, Asia closed deep in the red, and Europe is also broadly lower. It seems…
Co-founder, President and CEO of US technology company Nvidia, Jensen Huang, gestures during a press briefing in Paris on Oct. 13, 2026. Joel Saget | AFP | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC Thursday that a surplus of memory supply is unlikely by 2029, despite a sell-off in memory stocks over the past…
As the usage of artificial intelligence — benign and adversarial — increases at breakneck speed, more cases of potentially harmful responses are being uncovered. Pixdeluxe | E+ | Getty Images Government websites in Europe were taken offline on Wednesday as concerns spread about vulnerabilities in servers that host sites coded in PHP, the world’s most…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC Thursday that demand for neocloud firms is “off the charts,” but scarce capital is holding back growth. “If you look at the fundamentals, the demand for the neo clouds is off the charts,” Huang told CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal on the sidelines of the company’s GTC conference in Berlin on…
The tech world is racing to implement fixes after the discovery of critical security vulnerabilities in software used to power much of the internet. The software, known as PHP, is an open-source programming language widely used to power websites and web applications. The discovery of the flaws prompted urgent warnings from governments worldwide, while tech…