Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, is seen in the U.S. Capitol after a meeting in the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., March 26, 2026. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images A coalition of current and former Meta employees have sued the social media giant, alleging that the company used…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Tuesday’s key moments. 1. Stocks rose Tuesday after a cooler-than-expected June consumer inflation report eased concerns that the Federal Reserve would need to raise interest rates this month. While the inflation data boosted…
TerraFirma’s semi-autonomous construction equipment Courtesy: TerraFirma As SpaceX‘s Elon Musk sells investors on a space economy with life beyond Earth, a two-year-old construction startup founded by two of the company’s former engineers is positioning itself for the future of interplanetary infrastructure. TerraFirma on Tuesday said it raised $115 million in a funding round with investments…
The chief of Google’s AI division has called for the U.S. to spearhead a standards body that will oversee new AI models and assess national security risks including cybersecurity and biological threats. Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis, a Nobel laureate, said in an article posted on X on Tuesday that “urgent action” was needed to…
Commercial buildings illuminated at dusk in Singapore, on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Taiwan’s second-largest contract chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), announced Tuesday its first mass-produced silicon photonics wafers manufactured within its Singapore facility. UMC is aiming to address the growing demand for high-speed…
Shares of SpaceX slipped for a second trading day on Monday, bringing Elon Musk‘s company closer to its $135 initial public offering price just days after making its entrance into the Nasdaq-100. Now through its first month as a public company, the stock has been volatile since its June 12 debut, and is down about…
Franckreporter | E+ | Getty Images Artificial intelligence has prompted concerns that workers — particularly young professionals — could be replaced by advancing technology. Yet signs are emerging that older workers are also affected, according to a new paper from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Workers aged 55-plus in AI-exposed industries are…
Meta’s 5-gigawatt Hyperion data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Jan. 9, 2026. Courtesy of Meta Meta’s massive Hyperion data center project in rural Louisiana is getting much bigger and costlier, with a big assist from the state’s government. The company said in a blog post on Monday that the site in Richland Parish,…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 67.9% year-on-year rise in its June sales on Monday, ahead of its second-quarter earnings release later this…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman criticized each other in new posts on X, highlighting the billionaires’ long-standing tussle over OpenAI’s evolution. Musk and Altman helped to start OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit artificial intelligence research lab alongside a band of engineers and scientists. In 2018, Musk left OpenAI’s board after donating tens of millions…
