Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tries on Orion AR glasses at the Meta Connect annual event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 25, 2024. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta‘s deprioritizing virtual reality in favor of artificial intelligence and Internet-connected smart glasses has chilled the industry, leading to concerns about its…
The Intel logo is seen at the India Mobile Congress 2025 in Delhi, Oct. 11, 2025. Kabir Jhangiani | Nurphoto | Getty Images Intel shares plunged 17% on Friday after the chipmaker issued lackluster guidance and warned of a supply shortage. The stock notched its worst day since August 2024. During a fourth-quarter earnings call…
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is “very optimistic” the Senate Agriculture Committee’s updated legislation to regulate cryptocurrencies will advance, even though Republicans have yet to reach a deal with Democrats. “Senators have been working on a bipartisan basis for the last six months pretty intensely, and we have two different bills,” Gillibrand told CNBC in an exclusive interview. One piece of legislation is in the Agriculture Committee,…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer alerted investors on Friday that next week will be a consequential one for Wall Street, pointing to a heavy load of quarterly earnings and a Federal Reserve meeting. “Make no mistake, next week matters,” Cramer said. He later added, “The bottom line? Mag Sevens. Momentum pays. Red-hot industrials, and a Fed meeting….
Signage ahead of the Nvidia Live event at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026. Bridget Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia director Persis Drell, an engineering professor at Stanford, resigned on Wednesday after just over a decade on the chipmaker’s board of directors, the company said in a…
Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks Data analytics software company Databricks has landed $1.8 billion in fresh debt, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. Databricks now sits on over $7 billion in debt, the person added. The company declined to comment. Databricks is among the highly valued technology companies that are primed…
Alphabet ‘s Google has moved beyond the search bar, positioning itself as the lead architect of “agentic commerce.” In this new world, AI not only suggests what you buy but executes the purchase for you. For years, online retail has operated under a predictable platform: Shoppers search, click through the results, and complete checkout on…
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said his business relationship with President Donald Trump‘s family has been “misconstrued” in the wake of his pardon. “There’s no business relationships whatsoever,” Zhao told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Thursday in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The former Binance CEO served four months in…
A former official of U.S. President Donald Trump’s first administration is planning a multi-billion-dollar data center project in a remote corner of Greenland, as hyperscalers scramble to build out capacity across the globe to keep up with the AI rollout. The data center is aiming to be operational at 300 megawatts (MW) by mid-2027, before…
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang (R) speaks next to BlackRock chairman and WEF co-chairman Larry Fink during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2026. Fabrice Coffrini | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang plans to visit China in the coming days ahead of the…
