Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan holds a wafer of CPU tiles for the Intel Core Ultra series 3, code-named Panther Lake, outside the Intel Ocotillo campus in Chandler, Arizona. Courtesy: Intel Wall Street is piling into Intel ahead of the chipmaker’s quarterly earnings report scheduled for after the close on Thursday. The stock jumped about 11%…
A startup widely known as “ChatGPT for doctors” raised a new funding round that values the company at $12 billion. OpenEvidence, based in Miami, Florida, closed a $250 million financing, led by Thrive Capital and DST, the company told CNBC. The startup first raised outside capital in February, when it reeled in $75 million from…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is pictured on Sept. 25, 2025, in Berlin. Florian Gaertner | Photothek | Getty Images OpenAI on Tuesday said it is rolling out an age prediction model to its ChatGPT consumer plans to help the artificial intelligence company identify accounts that belong to users under 18 years old. The model…
A wave of speculative buying has crashed over the stock market to start the new year, prompting CNBC’s Jim Cramer to urge investors to take profits in stocks that have gone parabolic. “You haven’t made a profit unless you ring the register on some of your gains,” Cramer said Tuesday night on “Mad Money.” Those…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Tuesday that “there has to be some regulation” of artificial intelligence, pointing to several documented cases of suicide linked to the technology. “This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches,” Benioff told CNBC’s Sarah Eisen on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum’s…
Pictured here is Moonshot AI’s Kimi chatbot displayed on a smartphone. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — An Alibaba-backed AI startup is currently being valued at $4.8 billion in a fresh funding round, two people with knowledge of the deal said, just weeks after it was valued at $4.3 billion. Moonshot AI is the…
Jack Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Airwallex. Courtesy of Jack Zhang The word “burnout” isn’t in the dictionary of Jack Zhang, co-founder and CEO of fintech company Airwallex. “I never understand that terminology to be honest. I’ve worked 100 hours a week from [the] age of 16 for 20 plus years,” Zhang told…
Recently the Australian Senate passed a law to ban children under 16 from having social media accounts including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X. Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty Images Australia’s social media ban for under-16s has grabbed global attention, and governments worldwide are considering implementing similar policies, with the U.K. seen as…
Led by Texas and New Hampshire, U.S. states across the national map, both red and blue in political stripes, are developing bitcoin strategic reserves and bringing cryptocurrencies onto their books through additional state finance and budgeting measures. Texas recently became the first state to purchase bitcoin after a legislative effort that began in 2024, but…
A logo on the exterior of the ASML Holding NV headquarters in Veldhoven, Netherlands, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Peter Boer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dutch semiconductor equipment company ASML has held gains to hit record highs, following Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC’s strong earnings report on Thursday. ASML — Europe’s most valuable company and the…
