Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that the meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese Leader Xi Jinping could be delayed for logistical reasons. Bessent spoke during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Trump suggested on Sunday that the summit could be delayed as the U.S. pressures China to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz….
Nvidia showed CNBC its latest Vera CPU at its Santa Clara, California, headquarters on Feb. 13, 2026. Marc Ganley | CNBC Nvidia‘s graphics processing units have been the hottest-selling chips for years, but the sudden advent of agentic artificial intelligence has brought on a renaissance for its more modest host chip, the central processing unit….
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Less than six weeks after Elon Musk merged SpaceX and xAI in a deal he valued at $1.25 trillion, the world’s richest person…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. The S & P 500’s oversold bounce could not hold on Friday, and the early gains were erased. The reason was oil, which was lower for…
As AI chipmaker Cerebras angles for an eventual IPO, the company appears to have landed a significant cloud-computing customer: Oracle. On a conference call with analysts on Tuesday following Oracle’s quarterly earnings, Clay Magouyrk, one of the software vendor’s two CEOs, indicated that his company’s infrastructure includes Cerebras chips, alongside graphics processing units (GPUs) from…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Microsoft threw its support behind Anthropic on Tuesday, saying a judge should issue a restraining order that would block the Pentagon’s designation of the artificial intelligence giant as a supply chain risk…
Oracle shares rose 8% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software vendor reported quarterly results that surpassed Wall Street projections and boosted its revenue guidance for fiscal 2027. Management pushed up its fiscal 2027 revenue forecast by $1 billion to $90 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG had anticipated $86.60 billion. Oracle sees $1.92 and…
U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth behind, speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on a flight from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida, U.S., March 7, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Anthropic filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday after the artificial intelligence startup was blacklisted and labeled a threat…
Amazon said Friday it will continue offering Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology to its cloud customers, excluding work involving the Department of Defense. The announcement comes after the federal agency informed Anthropic on Thursday that it would label the company a “supply chain risk.” Anthropic responded by saying it has “no choice” but to challenge the…
Broadcom on Wednesday delivered a solid quarterly results while painting an increasingly upbeat picture around the future of its custom AI chip business. The report showed that despite fading enthusiasm for Broadcom’s stock, its most important business still has the wind at its back. Revenue in the fiscal first quarter of 2026, which ended Feb….
