A startup widely known as “ChatGPT for doctors” raised a new funding round that values the company at $12 billion. OpenEvidence, based in Miami, Florida, closed a $250 million financing, led by Thrive Capital and DST, the company told CNBC. The startup first raised outside capital in February, when it reeled in $75 million from…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is pictured on Sept. 25, 2025, in Berlin. Florian Gaertner | Photothek | Getty Images OpenAI on Tuesday said it is rolling out an age prediction model to its ChatGPT consumer plans to help the artificial intelligence company identify accounts that belong to users under 18 years old. The model…
A wave of speculative buying has crashed over the stock market to start the new year, prompting CNBC’s Jim Cramer to urge investors to take profits in stocks that have gone parabolic. “You haven’t made a profit unless you ring the register on some of your gains,” Cramer said Tuesday night on “Mad Money.” Those…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Tuesday that “there has to be some regulation” of artificial intelligence, pointing to several documented cases of suicide linked to the technology. “This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches,” Benioff told CNBC’s Sarah Eisen on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum’s…
Pictured here is Moonshot AI’s Kimi chatbot displayed on a smartphone. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — An Alibaba-backed AI startup is currently being valued at $4.8 billion in a fresh funding round, two people with knowledge of the deal said, just weeks after it was valued at $4.3 billion. Moonshot AI is the…
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, appears on CNBC’s Squawk Box on August 20, 2025. CNBC OpenAI will make 2026 its year of “practical adoption,” the artificial intelligence startup’s finance chief said in a blog Sunday. “The priority is closing the gap between what AI now makes possible and how people, companies, and countries are using…
Jack Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Airwallex. Courtesy of Jack Zhang The word “burnout” isn’t in the dictionary of Jack Zhang, co-founder and CEO of fintech company Airwallex. “I never understand that terminology to be honest. I’ve worked 100 hours a week from [the] age of 16 for 20 plus years,” Zhang told…
Recently the Australian Senate passed a law to ban children under 16 from having social media accounts including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X. Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty Images Australia’s social media ban for under-16s has grabbed global attention, and governments worldwide are considering implementing similar policies, with the U.K. seen as…
A logo on the exterior of the ASML Holding NV headquarters in Veldhoven, Netherlands, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Peter Boer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dutch semiconductor equipment company ASML has held gains to hit record highs, following Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC’s strong earnings report on Thursday. ASML — Europe’s most valuable company and the…
Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled “Transforming Business through AI” in Tokyo, on Feb. 3, 2025. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images In November, following Nvidia’s latest earnings beat, CEO Jensen Huang boasted to investors about his company’s position in artificial intelligence…
