Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., July 9, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Meta shares rallied on Friday, lifting their gains for the week to 15%, the best weekly performance since early 2024, as optimism…
For the past two years, the artificial intelligence race has been easy to score: bigger models, better benchmarks and whichever company could claim the lead, at least until the next launch. That scorecard is starting to look incomplete. As companies move from testing AI to using it in real products and workflows, it’s not longer…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said investors who feel they’ve missed this year’s biggest winners should be thankful for Wednesday’s market rotation. “You are getting a chance to sell the losers at a premium and switch to winners at a discount,” the “Mad Money” host said Wednesday. “So often in this market, you look back and kick…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Wednesday criticized the token model used by U.S. artificial intelligence labs Anthropic and OpenAI as costs skyrocket. “I’m not throwing shade at them, but something has gone completely wrong,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “The basic view among enterprises in this country is I’m going to chillax and waste my…
Zhipu‘s GLM 5.2 artificial intelligence model landed last week with the kind of Silicon Valley buzz that followed DeepSeek‘s launch last year. The Chinese AI startup‘s new open source model has blown past every other open release and now sits within a percentage point of Anthropic‘s Opus 4.8 on one closely watched agentic benchmark, at…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai addresses the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | AFP | Getty Images More than three years into the generative artificial intelligence boom, Google has defied the many skeptics who thought ChatGPT would be the search giant’s death knell. But cracks…
Artificial intelligence is giving tech investors an entirely new reason to pay attention to the Federal Reserve. For years, megacap tech companies with hefty balance sheets have been able to shrug off rising rates, which tend to weigh more heavily on smaller, less-profitable peers. But companies that were once cash cows are depleting reserves and…
In this photo illustration, the Anthropic logo is seen on a smartphone with a Claude Mythos logo in the background. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic’s suspension of its top AI models late last week drove home a hard truth for the companies that were counting on them: access can be cut off…
This photograph shows the logo of the logo of SentinelOne during the 18th edition of the “InCyber” Forum, an international cyber security event, at the Grand Palais in Lille, northern France on April 1, 2026. Sameer Al-doumy | Afp | Getty Images SentinelOne shares sank 8% as the cybersecurity company laid off 8% of its…
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, helps ring The Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 30, 2025. NYSE The “SaaSpocalypse” may not be over. But for now at least, fears of software’s demise have cooled. Software stocks soared this week, driven by strong results from Snowflake and Okta, signaling that some companies…
