You didn’t have to watch the draft to know that Fernando Mendoza went No. 1 overall. Everyone knew that the Las Vegas Raiders planned to select the Indiana quarterback since he declared for the draft. You porbably saw that the Arizona Cardinals took Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love third overall, the highest draft slot for…
A former top researcher at Google AI division DeepMind announced Monday a record $1.1 billion seed round for his months-old startup Ineffable Intelligence. The startup is pursuing superintelligence and was founded in late 2025 by UCL professor and former lead of DeepMind’s reinforcement learning team David Silver. The seed round is the largest ever in…
Markets are seeing a tepid start to trade in Europe, as investors digest the latest developments in the Iran war. Anticipation is also building ahead of major earnings this week, including five of the “Magnificent Seven,” as well as rate decisions from the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the ECB and the Bank of…
If you receive Social Security retirement benefits and are still working, you may see your monthly payments reduced, depending on your circumstances. But that all could change if one proposal — the Senior Citizens’ Freedom to Work Act — becomes law. The bicameral bill, recently proposed by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, and Rep. Greg Murphy,…
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, March 27, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters DETROIT — As America’s largest automakers prepare to report first-quarter earnings results this week amid rising oil and commodity costs due to the Iran war, they find themselves traversing different terrains. General Motors…
The nuclear power theme can be accessed in several ways: mining and refining stocks, as well as through the spot uranium price via ETFs and holding companies. <
CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman speaks during the 2026 Infrastructure Summit of government officials, corporate executives, and labor leaders, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 11, 2026. Kylie Cooper | Reuters OpenAI and Microsoft on Monday announced a revamped partnership agreement that will allow the artificial intelligence company to serve customers across any cloud provider. As…
Spotify is increasing its push beyond music and podcasts as the company on Monday announced a new fitness category partnership with Peloton Interactive. The deal will make more than 1,400 Peloton classes available to Spotify Premium subscribers across most of its global markets, embedding fitness content directly into Spotify’s existing audio and video ecosystem, according…
Qualcomm is one of the biggest semiconductor companies making chipsets. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Qualcomm shares rose in premarket trading Monday following reports that it’s partnering with OpenAI to create smartphone processing chips to advance the AI firm’s hardware ambitions. The U.S. smartphone chipmaker is set to work alongside Taiwanese semiconductor firm MediaTek…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Good morning. We have a big week ahead of us: In addition to earnings reports from key automakers and five of the “Magnificent Seven,” the Federal Reserve will make its next monetary policy decision and the trial between Elon Musk and Sam…
