There is more than a 10% chance that artificial intelligence could “kill all humans,” an Anthropic safety researcher said on Tuesday, hours after another employee said he was quitting the company over concerns that AI labs are “gambling with our lives.” The comments underscore growing concerns among those at the heart of AI development that…
Crude oil is back above $90 and energy stocks in the S&P 500 index are approaching fresh 52-week highs as the group’s year-to-date rally surpasses 40%. Despite energy stocks holding the title as the best-performing sector in the S&P 500 in 2026, options traders seem unconvinced the strength in conventional energy assets will continue. Instead,…
German rocket maker Isar Aerospace successfully reached orbit for the first time over the weekend, marking a milestone for Europe’s commercial space industry as the company looks to ramp up launches to meet what it says is booming demand. The Munich-based company’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit on Saturday and successfully deployed its payloads in low…
This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft taken from Canadarm2’s video camera as Dragon approaches the International Space Station, Friday, May 25, 2012. In foreground is a portion of Canadarm2. Expedition 31 Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers will use the Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple the supply ship…
View of the Golden Gate Bridge from Marin County Vicki Jauron, Babylon And Beyond Photography | Moment | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. The ranks of…
Nvidia has become one of the world’s largest strategic tech backers as the value of its equity investments soared more than tenfold in the past year to $99 billion, with the chip giant increasingly looking to leverage its huge capital reserves to bolster the AI sector. The company has ramped up dealmaking for financing rounds…
Traders work in the S&P options pit at the Cboe Global Markets exchange in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images So much for the September seasonal doldrums. Options traders are kicking off the historically worst month for stocks by piling on bullish bets on a handful…
Elon Musk’s super PAC is putting its first midterm money behind some of the GOP’s most important election battlegrounds, spending more than $800,000 across seven Senate races and a handful of competitive House districts, according to a new Federal Election Commission disclosure. The spending by America PAC offers the clearest look yet at where the…
The Microduck robot is set to come with a range of pre-installed actions, according to its developers HuggingFace and Pollen Robotics. Pollen Robotics BEIJING — A popular new programmable personal robot from a French-American company is powered by a chip from Shanghai-listed Rockchip which in turn uses British company ARM’s tech, reflecting how intertwined global…
When incoming Apple CEO John Ternus spoke to CNBC in late 2023, he was all about the technology. Custom chips, device battery life and memory architecture were among his primary interests. “If we build the right products with the right components within them, right silicon and other technologies, people love them,” Ternus, who took over…
