The Meta Horizon Worlds logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, and the Meta logo is in the background in Chania, Greece, on Aug. 9, 2024. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meta announced Tuesday that it is shutting down Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality social network for Quest VR headsets that was once…
The Manus logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, with the Meta logo visible in the background. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Artificial intelligence start-up Manus, recently acquired by Meta, launched a new desktop application Monday that brings its AI agent directly onto personal laptops. The company’s general agent — which…
Low angle view of tall buildings in Tokyo, Japan, showcasing diverse architectural styles George Pachantouris | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were set to climb Wednesday as investors tracked escalating tensions in the Middle East. A fresh wave of attacks on the United Arab Emirates’ energy infrastructure has heightened fears of prolonged supply disruptions amid the…
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch are calling for a halt to the new version of ByteDance’s artificial intelligence app, Seedance, which generates videos of real people and licensed characters, raising copyright and intellectual property concerns. Seedance 2.0 “is the most glaring example of copyright infringement from a…
Australia Matteo Colombo | Digitalvision | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets jumped on Tuesday as investors monitor the latest developments in the Iran war, with U.S. President Donald Trump looking to delay his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping by “a month or so” due to the Middle East conflict. Trump was expected to travel to…
Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley on Monday said the artificial intelligence wave is real and a lot of people got rich quick, but he expects a “reset” to come. “When people get rich quick, a whole bunch of people come in and want to get rich too, and that’s why we end up with bubbles,”…
At Nvidia’s annual developer conference on Monday, CEO Jensen Huang took the stage to a packed house and said he expects purchase orders between Blackwell and Vera Rubin to reach $1 trillion through 2027. Last year, the company had projections for a $500 billion revenue opportunity between the two chip technologies. Following Nvidia’s earnings report…
The AI boom may be having a side effect: a surge in Big Tech buying carbon credits to offset emissions generated by its energy-hungry buildout. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have ramped up purchases of permanent carbon credits since the launch of ChatGPT sparked the AI race in 2022, according to data compiled for CNBC…
While attending college at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Suras Nayak knew he wanted to leave his hometown of Hyderabad, India, and travel the world. “When I was growing up, I always had this idea somewhere behind my head that I always wanted to move abroad, but I was a little bit influenced…
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….
