Figma signage appears at the New York Stock Exchange in New York as the company prepares for its shares to begin trading on July 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Figma shares jumped 7% on Monday after the design software vendor’s technology was promoted by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in an onstage…
Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Founder and CEO, speaks at the Delivering Alpha conference in New York City on Sept. 28, 2023. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Investor Brad Gerstner cautioned Monday that OpenAI‘s deals with Nvidia and AMD are purely announcements, not deployments. “Now we will see what gets delivered,” the Altimeter Capital founder told CNBC. “Ultimately,…
The AppLovin logo arranged on a smartphone in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images AppLovin shares plummeted on Monday after Bloomberg reported that the SEC has been probing the mobile advertising company over its data-collection practices. The agency has been looking into whether the company violated…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, left, and Lisa Su, chair and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, arrive for a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI and Advanced Micro Devices have reached a deal…
Keith Heyde stands on site in Abilene, Texas, where OpenAI’s Stargate infrastructure buildout is underway. Heyde, a former head of AI compute at Meta, is now leading OpenAI’s physical expansion push. OpenAI It wasn’t how Keith Heyde envisioned celebrating the holidays. Rather than hanging out with his wife back home in Oregon, Heyde spent late…
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI launched short-form video app Sora this week, and users have flooded the platform with artificial intelligence-generated clips of popular brands and animated characters. The startup could soon face a deluge of copyright lawsuits, experts told CNBC. “A lot of the videos that people are going to generate…
Day three of the federal government shutdown came and went Friday, with no end in sight. The stock market saw more all-time highs before the rally ran out of steam. The S & P 500 on Friday eked out a fractional gain for its 29th record-high close since the market’s tariff lows in early April….
Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images OpenAI’s new artificial intelligence video app Sora has already grabbed the top spot in Apple‘s App Store as its number one free app, despite being invite-only. Sora, which was launched on Tuesday, allows users to create short-form AI videos and share them in a feed. The app is…
An employee arranges a salad dressing display at an Amazon Fresh grocery store on December 12, 2024 in Federal Way, Washington. David Ryder | Getty Images Amazon is closing four more Fresh supermarkets in Southern California as the e-commerce giant continues to focus its grocery strategy around Whole Foods and delivery. The closures will take…
Andrew Feldman, co-founder of Cerebras System Inc., speaks at the Raise summit in Paris, France, on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras on Friday filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission withdrawing plans for an initial public offering. The agency is operating at a…
