Time to look at AI-adjacent plays

Time to look at AI-adjacent plays

An Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Virginia, US, on Sunday, July 28, 2024.  Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like … Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reviews Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s prototype AR glasses

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reviews Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s prototype AR glasses

There was lots of cool stuff on display Wednesday afternoon at the Meta Connect 2024 product and developer conference held at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. The launch of the new Meta Quest 3S virtual reality headset — on sale Oct. 15, starting at $299 — was certainly exciting. It was also great to get … Read more

Meta unveils cheaper $299 Quest 3S VR headset

Meta unveils cheaper 9 Quest 3S VR headset

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Acquired LIVE event at the Chase Center in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta announced the Quest 3S, the latest virtual reality headset to come out of the company’s Reality Labs division … Read more

How to use ChatGPT advanced voice mode from OpenAI

How to use ChatGPT advanced voice mode from OpenAI

OpenAI has launched advanced voice mode for audio chats with ChatGPT. Jordan Novet, CNBC ChatGPT is ready for more natural audio chats. OpenAI said Tuesday that its popular chatbot now has an advanced voice feature for people who pay for the premium service. The tool allows for more fluid conversations. The release will continue through … Read more

Nvidia shares pop as CEO may be done selling shares after hitting preset plan limit

Nvidia shares pop as CEO may be done selling shares after hitting preset plan limit

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks onstage with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff during Salesforce’s Dreamforce on September 17, 2024 in San Francisco, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is done selling the chipmaker’s stock for the time being, cashing in more than $700 million under a prearranged plan. … Read more

Microsoft’s first-mover advantage in AI is fading. Why we’re OK with that

Microsoft’s first-mover advantage in AI is fading. Why we’re OK with that

Microsoft is no longer the only game in town in generative AI. That’s OK because competition is healthy. Amazon , Meta Platforms and Apple are eating away at Microsoft’s once-sizable lead in the heated artificial intelligence arms race, according to D.A. Davidson research analysts. As a result, the analysts cut their rating on the Redmond, … Read more

6 things from my San Francisco trip reveal AI stock winners

6 things from my San Francisco trip reveal AI stock winners

It’s time for some of my reflections on a week in San Francisco talking to dozens of executives and workers in tech. It was a grueling trip, but a necessary one, because we are at a pivotal time when it comes to the revolution of artificial intelligence and accelerated computing. AI gets talked about a … Read more

Tesla, Nvidia lead tech stocks to one of best day of 2024 on rate cut

Tesla, Nvidia lead tech stocks to one of best day of 2024 on rate cut

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents the Nvidia Blackwell platform at an event ahead of the COMPUTEX Forum, in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2, 2024. Ann Wang | Reuters Investors poured into tech stocks at one of the fastest clips of the year a day after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate for the … Read more

Alibaba launches over 100 new AI models, releases text-to-video generation

Alibaba launches over 100 new AI models, releases text-to-video generation

The Alibaba office building is seen in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, Aug 28, 2024.  CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Alibaba on Thursday released more than 100 open-source artificial intelligence models and boosted the capabilities of its proprietary technology as it looks to ramp up competition with rivals. The newly-released models, known as Qwen … Read more

Elon Musk’s X ‘declined to send’ appropriate witness to Senate hearing

Elon Musk’s X ‘declined to send’ appropriate witness to Senate hearing

As the riots raged in the U.K., Elon Musk began making incendiary comments about the situation, including the statement: “Civil war is inevitable.” Musk is the owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as X. Aytug Can Sencar | Anadolu | Getty Images While top executives from Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft are headed … Read more