An AMD employee installs a the first Helios rack-scale AI system in a data center lab in Rockdale, Texas, on June 24, 2026. Helios comes in four customizable configurations, and this is the one Meta will deploy later this year. Andrew Evers | CNBC Advanced Micro Devices is counting on its graphics processing units to…
Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind Technologies Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Depending on where you sit, Google either has the most enviable position in artificial intelligence or is bleeding top talent to leading AI labs and other startups on the frontline of innovation. It’s a contrast that’s…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on July 30, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Hello, this is Anniek Bao writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open. The Dow just notched its fifth straight record close,…
The SpaceX headquarters is seen on Monday, Aug. 3, 2026 in Hawthorne, CA. Eric Thayer | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images After SpaceX spent way more on its AI buildout than analysts expected, executives tried to convince investors on Tuesday that it’s all worthwhile, claiming that the company is making its money back within…
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, center, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images Tech companies’ venture capital portfolios are making corporate profits look a lot stronger than they really are. Microsoft, Amazon…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Monday that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s earnings call changed how Wall Street views massive artificial intelligence investments. “Until Jassy spoke, the market seemed highly skeptical of how these megacap tech companies were spending money,” the “Mad Money” host said. “That’s no longer the case.” For months, investors had questioned whether…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with reporters following meetings on Capitol Hill, in Washington, June 3, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters OpenAI is dominating the first visible wave of artificial intelligence spending inside Congress. The maker of ChatGPT accounted for roughly $9 out of every $10 spent on identifiable AI tools by House offices, committees…
For months, I have been after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to give us “line of sight” into something that can explain why they’re is spending so much money building out all of these data centers. I wanted to know if this is just some sort of rainbow without a pot of gold, or whether there…
Travelers walk past an Alibaba Cloud advertisement at Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images For much of the past several years, the debate over artificial intelligence has revolved around two foundational questions: Can American technology companies continue to innovate at the technological frontier?…
Following Microsoft’s (MSFT) Q4 earnings and record-setting appreciation ($450 billion in market capitalization gained in a single trading day!), the immediate binary event risk is officially behind us. Despite the surrounding noise regarding elevated AI capital expenditure, the fundamental engine of the business remains fully intact, presenting an exceptionally high-probability income trade: selling the August 21st weekly…
