Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Uber is breaking into the travel industry. The company on Wednesday announced several new products at its annual Go-Get event in New York as it looks to attract more users to its platform and push to differentiate beyond its mainstay ride-hailing business. Rather than focusing on its ambitious…
CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman speaks during the 2026 Infrastructure Summit of government officials, corporate executives, and labor leaders, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 11, 2026. Kylie Cooper | Reuters With the four tech hyperscalers — Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft — set to report quarterly earnings after the close, hovering over their results is…
Avishek Das | Lightrocket | Getty Images OpenAI revenue chief Denise Dresser said the AI company’s agreement on Tuesday to make its models available on Amazon had nothing to do with an announcement a day earlier that the startup had restructured its relationship with Microsoft for a second time in six months. “The two are…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. I couldn’t help but feel a pang of déjà vu reading about Jimmy Kimmel’s return to the White House’s crosshairs. S&P 500 futures are little changed this morning. All three major averages logged a negative session yesterday. Here are five…
Shares of Meta Platforms are recovering from a bruising stretch earlier this year, when investors shied away from the social media giant’s massive investment in artificial intelligence. Wednesday’s earnings will determine whether that rebound will continue. The stakes are high: Meta is in the midst of one of the most aggressive AI buildouts of all…
The European Commission has found that Meta breached EU law by failing to prevent under-13s from accessing its platforms, as scrutiny of the tech giant’s handling of child safety intensifies. The commission said Wednesday that its preliminary investigations concluded that Meta violated the EU’s Digital Services Act because the minimum age requirement of 13 for…
A major data center company has paused investment in AI infrastructure projects and data centers in the Middle East amid the Iran war, its CEO has told CNBC. As oil prices have skyrocketed and supply chains have been heavily disrupted by conflict in the region, the future of huge digital infrastructure plans in the Middle…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said he’s unfazed by Tuesday’s sell-off in AI stocks because it’s exactly what the market needs. “Rain is to gardening as sell-offs are to the stock market,” the “Mad Money” host said. “You should expect them, maybe even hope for them. We just don’t realize it at the time.” Stocks retreated on…
Cravetiger | Moment | Getty Images You may already be familiar with AI taking notes in your doctor’s office, or being used to help book appointments or analyze medical images. But some experts believe consumers should be using AI even more to help understand their health. “People should be using AI much more than they…
Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Pentagon AI chief Cameron Stanley confirmed to CNBC that the Department of Defense is expanding its use of Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence model, about two months after the DOD dropped Anthropic, designating it as a supply chain risk. The DOD is using Google’s latest model for classified…