A mechanical hand is on display at the Robot Mall, world’s first embodied intelligent robot 4S store, on August 13, 2025 in Beijing, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Companies are rapidly changing their minds that artificial intelligence can “do it all” by rehiring employees to propel their businesses forward, as investors…
An interactive display featuring artificial intelligence at the iRootech Technology Co. offices in Guangzhou, China, on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hello, this is Justina Lee writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open. Artificial intelligence remains the market’s favorite, with investors continuing to rotate…
A cargo ship is pictured off coast of the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal, the only natural deep-sea port in the region and one of the major container ports in Sharjah Emirate, along the Gulf of Oman on June 28, 2026. – | Afp | Getty Images Iran has exported more than 40 million barrels of…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Tuesday said the U.S. Department of Commerce has lifted the export controls on its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, putting an…
Screens showing surging stock shares at the Taiwan Stock Exchange office, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to pause the global tariffs, in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 10, 2025. Daniel Ceng | Anadolu | Getty Images Asia has no shortage of entrepreneurs, engineers or giant domestic markets. Yet when it comes to producing the…
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 29, 2025. NYSE Small-cap U.S. stocks are capping off one of their strongest first halves in decades. But this is not your ordinary small-cap boom led by traditional businesses linked to the economic cycle. This run, like the one going on with their larger-cap peers,…
Pierre Yared, acting chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, speaks to members of the media during the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) economic policy conference in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pierre Yared is leaving his role as the acting chairman of the…
CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei attends a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI, during the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026, in Évian-les-Bains, France. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | Getty Images Anthropic is starting an internal drug discovery program as part of an…
US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing a presidential memo at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 29, 2026. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s annual financial disclosure report was released on Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. Trump’s disclosure report…
Less than 2% of NCAA athletes are drafted into a professional sport, according to NCAA data. Icon Sportswire | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images A bipartisan committee on Capitol Hill scrutinized the role of private equity in youth sports on Tuesday, a potential sign that Congress could be inching closer to intervening. The hearing, titled “Field…
