Canadian AI lab Cohere announced on Friday that it planned to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha, as it eyed major expansion in Europe. As part of the deal, Schwarz Group — a key backer of Aleph Alpha — plans to invest $600 million in Cohere’s upcoming Series E round. The company expects to close…
TSMC CoWoS chips: Sample microchips packaged using CoWoS at TSMC’s offices in San Jose, California, shown to CNBC on February 20, 2026. CNBC Shares in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. surged 5% to a fresh all-time high on Friday after the island’s regulator said it plans to loosen limits on funds’ allocations to single stocks. Under…
A view of Earth, partially hidden by the Moon, photographed through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT (22:41 GMT) April 6, 2026, just three minutes before the Orion spacecraft and its crew went behind the Moon and lost contact with Earth for 40 minutes before emerging on the other side during the Artemis…
DeepSeek reportedly has not shared its upcoming AI model with American engineers and instead granted early access to Chinese companies, further intensifying the technological war between the U.S. and China, as of Feb. 26, 2026. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Friday released a preview version of its long-awaited…
Audi’s electric SUV, the E7X, will begin presales on May 8. The vehicle will incorporate AI features from ByteDance’s Doubao and iFlyTek. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Friday that its Qwen artificial intelligence model will be integrated into vehicles from automakers including BYD and a local joint venture of…
The Trump administration on Thursday accused Chinese entities of waging “industrial-scale campaigns” to rip off U.S. artificial intelligence systems, and said it will explore ways to hold the foreign actors accountable. “There is nothing innovative about systematically extracting and copying the innovations of American industry,” Michael Kratsios, the top science and technology advisor to President…
Haviv Ilan, president and CEO of Texas Instruments, speaks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the company’s new semiconductor wafer plant in Sherman, Texas, Dec. 17, 2025. Desiree Rios | Bloomberg | Getty Images Texas Instruments had its best day on Wall Street since 2000 after the chipmaker reported better-than-expected quarterly results and…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday investors should look beyond the market’s hottest trades and start hunting for opportunities in areas that have already been beaten down. “I want to praise the other parts of the market … that have been marked down already, which makes them less vulnerable,” the “Mad Money” host said. With the…
Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel Corp., departs following a meeting at the White House in Washington, Aug. 11, 2025. Alex Wroblewski | Bloomberg | Getty Images Intel reported first-quarter earnings Thursday that blew past Wall Street’s expectations, as the struggling chipmaker shows signs of a revival. Shares of the U.S. chipmaker jumped 19% in after-hours…
Signage outside the ServiceNow headquarters in Santa Clara, California, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Software stocks plummeted on Thursday as disappointing results from ServiceNow and IBM added to fears that artificial intelligence tools and services will disrupt their businesses. Shares of ServiceNow sank about 18% Thursday,…