Anand Varadarajan, Amazon Vice President of product and technology and worldwide grocery stores speaks during the Delivering the future conference in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, on October 9, 2024. Seth Herald | Afp | Getty Images Starbucks announced Friday that it has hired its new chief technology officer, Amazon veteran Anand Varadarajan. Varadarajan, who spent nearly…
Global data centers dealmaking surged to hit another record high this year, driven by a rush to build out the infrastructure required for energy-intensive AI workloads. That surge came even as investors grew increasingly wary of inflated artificial intelligence valuations and the financing underpinning the rapid expansion of data centers. Global stocks sold off in…
Rohit Prasad, Senior VP & Head Scientist for Alexa, Amazon, on Centre Stage during day one of Web Summit 2022 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Ben McShane | Sportsfile | Getty Images Rohit Prasad, a top Amazon executive overseeing its artificial general intelligence unit, is leaving the company at the end of this…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI is in discussions with Amazon about a potential investment and an agreement to use its artificial intelligence chips, CNBC confirmed…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday proposed that action from Oracle could slow down other hyperscalers’ enormous artificial intelligence spending, saying the OpenAI partner should show “discipline.” “Oracle already has a huge amount of debt. Their balance sheet’s not that good. At some point, they’ll heed the warning of the bond market and slow things down,”…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. Hamad I Mohammed | Reuters What started off as a particularly rough year for Tesla investors is turning into quite the celebration. Following a 36% plunge in the first quarter, the stock’s worst period since 2022, Tesla shares have…
Robotaxis felt like science fiction just a decade ago, but this year, autonomous vehicles became a commonplace option for paying passengers across big cities in the U.S. and parts of Asia. Alphabet-owned Waymo kept expanding and dominates the robotaxi market in the U.S., though rivals Tesla and Amazon-owned Zoox also launched the first versions of…
Slope, a lending startup that uses artificial intelligence to vet businesses, is partnering with Amazon starting Tuesday to provide a reusable line of credit to Amazon sellers, backed by a JPMorgan Chase credit facility, the company told CNBC exclusively. The new relationship means eligible U.S. Amazon vendors can apply for and access capital directly through…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer reviewed recent market action and made the case for Procter & Gamble. He drew a distinction between companies like the consumer giant, which makes use of new technology, and tech hyperscalers that spend billions on artificial intelligence to compete with each other. “My favorite tech stocks right now are the business-to-business users…
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. Lucas Jackson | Reuters In at least one corner of the artificial intelligence market, sentiment has turned decidedly negative. Broadcom, CoreWeave and Oracle, three companies intimately tied to the AI infrastructure buildout, all had another rough day on Wall Street on Monday after selling off sharply last week. While the three…
