Investors think Trump is better for stocks, CNBC Delivering Alpha survey shows

Investors think Trump is better for stocks, CNBC Delivering Alpha survey shows

People walk by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 18, 2024 in New York City.  Spencer Platt | Getty Images Former President Donald Trump is the clear favorite when it comes to the stock market, according to the latest results of CNBC’s Delivering Alpha Stock Survey. Of the 400 investors, traders and money … Read more

Peter Thiel says, ‘if you hold a gun to my head I’ll vote for Trump’

Peter Thiel says, ‘if you hold a gun to my head I’ll vote for Trump’

Then-president-elect Donald Trump shakes the hand of Peter Thiel during a meeting with technology executives at Trump Tower, December 14, 2016 in New York City. Getty Images Peter Thiel, once one of Donald Trump’s major financial backers in the tech industry, said on Thursday that even though he’s not providing money to the Republican presumptive … Read more

We are starting a position in a market-leading renewable energy company

We are starting a position in a market-leading renewable energy company

We’re initiating a position in Nextracker , buying 350 shares at roughly $48.18. Following Thursday’s trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 350 shares of NXT with a weighting of about 0.5%. Nextracker makes solar tracker systems that allow huge utility-scale rows of solar panels to rotate and follow the sun’s movement across the sky … Read more

France’s AI push puts it on the rise

France’s AI push puts it on the rise

In the 13th arrondissement of the French capital Paris is an old rail freight station that has been converted into the world’s biggest startup campus. Known as Station F, the massive complex, which can house 1,000 startups and has corporate partners including U.S. tech giants like Meta and Google, underscores France’s push over the last … Read more

Nvidia (NVDA) stock rout leaves global chip shares volatile

Nvidia (NVDA) stock rout leaves global chip shares volatile

The logo of Nvidia Corporation is seen during the annual Computex computer exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, May 30, 2017. Tyrone Siu | Reuters Global semiconductor stocks saw volatile trading on Tuesday after a slump in shares of Nvidia during the previous session. Shares of chip firms in Europe and Asia fell in early trade as investors reacted … Read more

Apple Intelligence AI not coming to Europe this year

Apple Intelligence AI not coming to Europe this year

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 10, 2024.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple said Friday it won’t release several upcoming features unveiled this month, including its flagship “Apple Intelligence” AI product, in … Read more

Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI announced

Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI announced

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI competitor Anthropic on Thursday announced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its most powerful artificial intelligence model yet. Claude is one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google‘s Gemini, has exploded in popularity in the past year. Anthropic, which was founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, has backers including Google, Salesforce and Amazon. … Read more

Europe’s top-funded genAI startups founded by ex-Big Tech staff: Accel

Europe’s top-funded genAI startups founded by ex-Big Tech staff: Accel

French founder of artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch, attends the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris, France, on May 22, 2024. Chesnot | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Most of the top-funded generative artificial intelligence companies in Europe were founded by entrepreneurs with experience at U.S. … Read more

Solar is growing faster than any energy source as clean power for data centers

Solar is growing faster than any energy source as clean power for data centers

Aerial view of the Oberon Solar O&M farm on March 24, 2024 in Ector County, Texas. In 2023, Texas led the nation in solar installations on its power grid, surpassing California for its second consecutive year.  Brandon Bell | Getty Images Solar is booming in the United States as power demand surges, outpacing the growth … Read more

Nvidia passes Microsoft in market cap, is most valuable public company

Nvidia passes Microsoft in market cap, is most valuable public company

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends an event at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024.  Ann Wang | Reuters Nvidia, long known in the niche gaming community for its graphics chips, is now the most valuable public company in the world. Shares of the chipmaker climbed 3.2% in mid-day trading on Tuesday, lifting the … Read more