This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. With yesterday’s inflation data, I am once again reminded that my preference for beef over poultry is hurting my grocery bill. Stock futures are down this morning. The three major indexes are coming off a losing day. Here are five…
Airbnb has tapped Ahmad Al-Dahle, former head of generative artificial intelligence at Meta Platforms, as its news technology chief, CEO Brian Chesky announced on Wednesday. “With Ahmad, we are really, really excited because we have an opportunity to do AI right for travel, to do AI right for ecommerce,” Chesky told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin….
A photograph shows a sign at the Congress Centre on the opening day of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 16, 2023. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images Global power rivalries and strategic standoffs top the list of most severe near-term risks heading into 2026, according to the World Economic…
Big Tech has been on an energy hiring spree. Technology companies investing heavily in artificial intelligence are bolstering their workforce with energy experts as they look to overcome the biggest bottleneck in scaling AI: access to power. Energy-related hiring jumped 34% year-on-year in 2024, according to data compiled by Workforce.ai for CNBC. Last year’s hiring…
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Nov. 4th, 2025. CNBC Executives of artificial intelligence startup Percepta AI, who were sued last year by Palantir for allegedly stealing confidential information and trying to poach top talent, called the claims an attempt to “stifle competition.” “In truth, Palantir is looking to scare…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer is doubling down on Alphabet , arguing the stock can build on its strong 2025 rally with another 20% jump. “I don’t think Google stops here,” Cramer said Tuesday on “Squawk on the Street.” “I think Alphabet goes straight shot to $400.” Shares of the Google parent Alphabet hit another all-time Tuesday,…
A screenshot of the PixVerse AI video generation home page showing sample clips. Screenshot BEIJING — An Alibaba-backed startup is pushing artificial intelligence toward real-time, interactive video creation. PixVerse on Tuesday released an AI tool that allows users to control how a video unfolds while it is being generated. And just like a movie director,…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. Nothing quite says the holidays are over like the beginning of a new corporate earnings season. Stock futures are ticking lower this morning following a winning day. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading…
OpenAI has acquired the health-care technology startup Torch, the company announced on Monday. Torch was building a “unified medical memory” for artificial intelligence that aimed to bring a patient’s health data, which is typically siloed and stored across a number of different vendors and formats, into one place. Torch’s employees will join OpenAI as part…
A core pillar of our investment case in Google-owner Alphabet materialized Monday. Fellow Club name Apple selected Google’s AI model, Gemini, to power the artificial intelligence features across Siri and other key products later this year. The multi-year partnership to integrate Gemini into Apple’s foundation models, confirmed in an Apple statement obtained by Jim Cramer,…
