A 300mm wafer on display at the booth of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company during the 2023 World Semiconductor Conference at Nanjing International Expo Center on July 19, 2023, in Nanjing, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Asian chip stocks rallied in early trading Thursday after American AI chip darling Nvidia beat Wall…
Davide Bonaldo | Lightrocket | Getty Images Perplexity on Wednesday announced it will roll out a free agentic shopping product for U.S. users next week, as consumers ramp up spending for the holiday season. “The agentic part is the seamless purchase right from the answer,” Dmitry Shevelenko, Perplexity’s chief business officer, told CNBC in an…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (L) talks with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center on Nov. 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images Nvidia and xAI said on Wednesday that a large data center facility being built in Saudi Arabia and equipped with hundreds of thousands…
Yann LeCun, known as one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and one of the first AI visionaries to join the company then known as Facebook, is leaving Meta. LuCun said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday that he plans to create a startup that specializes in a kind of AI technology that researchers…
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Video generation startup Luma AI said it raised $900 million in a new funding round led by Humain, an artificial intelligence company owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The financing, which included participation from Advanced Micro Devices’ venture arm and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz,…
Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards ChatGPT for Teachers Courtesy of OpenAI OpenAI on Wednesday announced ChatGPT for Teachers, a version of its artificial intelligence chatbot that is designed for K-12 educators and school districts. Educators can use ChatGPT for Teachers to securely work with student information, get personalized teaching support and collaborate with colleagues within…
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang reacts during a press conference at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Gyeongju on October 31, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images Artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia is scheduled to report fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the market closes. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting,…
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 20, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Adobe said Wednesday that it reached a deal to acquire search engine marketing platform Semrush for $1.9 billion to boost its tools for marketers in the age of…
VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Alphabet stock jumped 5% on Wednesday after Google debuted its latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3, sparking optimism from investors. The new model is an improvement on its predecessor, Gemini 2.5, which Google released about eight months ago. Google said Gemini 3 allows users to get…
The Nvidia logo is displayed on a building at Nvidia headquarters on August 27, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:…
