The Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference continued on Thursday with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, and SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen among the notable names set to take the stage. Artificial intelligence has been a big topic of discussion so far at the annual meeting of top executives, which started Tuesday. AirBnb…
XPeng’s humanoid robot IRON is on display during the 2026 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Auto Show on May 31, 2026 in Shenzhen, Guangdong province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Chinese companies rushed into electric cars a decade ago, and now they are expanding into humanoid robots as the…
For Alexander Lee, back-to-school shopping used to mean hours spent comparing prices, reading reviews, and figuring out where to buy a growing list of supplies for his two kids. “The pens and pencils are not that big of a deal,” Lee said in a CNBC interview ahead of the Labor Day weekend. Things like “calculators,…
Nvidia‘s near-monopoly over the most advanced AI chips is under “threat” as OpenAI’s and other tech giants announce custom-built semiconductors, analysts told CNBC. Follow CNBC’s live coverage of Nvidia’s 2027 second-quarter earnings OpenAI announced that its first AI chip, the Jalapeño, had “industry-leading speed and efficiency,” as it unveiled the semiconductor on Tuesday. Google, AWS…
XI’AN, CHINA – JULY 22: Wang Xingxing, founder of Unitree Robotics, speaks at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Internet Conference Digital Silk Road Development Forum on July 22, 2026 in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Humanoid robots may be a decade away from their “ChatGPT…
Nvidia is playing matchmaker, trying to connect companies with its graphics processing units to data-center operators that have the capacity to deploy them in the Nordics, sources have told CNBC. While Nvidia has established an effective monopoly over the most powerful AI chips, it has worked to exert greater influence across the AI ecosystem as…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivers a speech during a keynote event at COMPUTEX on June 02, 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. Cheng Chia Huang | Getty Images Nvidia’s massive head start in artificial intelligence turned the chipmaker into the world’s most valuable company. Now, almost four years into the generative AI boom, competitors like Advanced Micro…
A man walks past the Alibaba logo displayed at its booth during the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing, China July 16, 2025. Florence Lo | Reuters Meta wants to lead in open-source AI. China’s Alibaba just reminded the U.S. tech giant how competitive the market is. On Monday, the Chinese tech giant launched…
As Nvidia partners with Wall Street firms to mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure, the increasingly complex financing underpinning the boom is coming under closer scrutiny. Hyperscalers and their financial backers are turning to bond markets, joint ventures, leases and other structures to fund an unprecedented infrastructure buildout. At the…
An exhibitor demonstrates a Unitree Robotics G1 humanoid robot at the Humanoids Summit in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, May 29, 2026. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images As retail excitement around the listing of China’s best-known humanoid maker, Unitree Robotics, reaches fever pitch, skeptics are questioning how long it will take before these robots…
