Jeff Bezos‘ Blue Origin said Friday it plans to make extensive upgrades to its Florida launch facilities with the goal of supporting multiple flights per week by the end of the decade. The company will add two more launch and landing pads for New Glenn, its heavy-lift, partially reusable rocket. A $330 million expansion to…
A satellite dish in a ground network of satellites at Eutelsat’s Madeira office. Photographer: /Bloomberg via Getty Images Zed Jameson | Bloomberg via Getty Images Shares of French Satellite Group Eutelsat soared this week as SpaceX‘s Starshield drew criticism after the Ukrainian military’s access to its systems was suddenly restricted. Earlier this week, tensions rose…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Friday. I’m running the Detroit Marathon on Sunday, so I’m especially grateful to see that, unlike recent weekends, there’s no inclement weather in the forecast. Some programming news: I’m moving to a new reporting assignment at CNBC, which means this is…
SpaceX artificial intelligence policy leader Gabriela Castillo Madrid is set to testify before the New York City Council on Friday as part of a legislative investigation into AI safety. The hearing with the council’s tech committee is scheduled for 10 a.m. ET at City Hall with Castillo Madrid appearing by video conference. Elon Musk’s aerospace,…
Amazon’s Bee Frontier device can be worn on a wrist or clipped on to clothing. Amazon Amazon on Thursday unveiled two new Bee listening devices, including a wearable and a credit card-sized voice recorder, marking its latest push into the AI gadget market. The Bee Frontier is an upgraded version of Amazon’s existing wearable that…
The Senate Leadership Fund, the Republican Party’s leading Senate super PAC, posted the largest quarterly haul in its history and entered the final weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm election with more than $155 million in cash, according to a new Federal Election Commission filing Thursday. The SLF brought in $272.9 million from July through…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Thursday announced it’s working with the nonprofits METR and SecureBio, and engaging in discussions with additional organizations, including Hugging Face, as part of…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday that this week’s turbulence in artificial intelligence stocks is delivering a painful reminder of why investors shouldn’t put all their money into the market’s hottest trade. After months of AI infrastructure stocks leading the market, Cramer said investors who maintained exposure to other sectors are finally seeing the benefits of…
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images CoreWeave‘s credit stress continued to spiral on Thursday amid a broader sell-off in AI-related names. CoreWeave — a so-called neocloud company — has taken on more than $51 billion of debt and obligations to finance its AI infrastructure build-out. It’s now facing a rebellion from stock and bond…
Technology giants Nvidia and Cisco have committed millions to President Donald Trump‘s White House ballroom renovation project, CNBC confirmed on Thursday. Nvidia and Apple each pledged $25 million to the project, according to a report from The Washington Post. Those were among the largest donations on the list, which totaled more than $330 million. “As…