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

Hoping for a half-point cut

Hoping for a half-point cut

Construction work is done around the Federal Reserve building on September 17, 2024 in Washington, DC.  Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | 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 … Read more

Microsoft, BlackRock form GAIIP to invest in AI data centers, energy

Microsoft, BlackRock form GAIIP to invest in AI data centers, energy

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle on May 21, 2024. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft and BlackRock are part of a group of companies collaborating to pull together up to $100 billion to develop data centers for artificial intelligence and the energy infrastructure to power … Read more

Tech dealmakers skeptical that M&A will pick up after election

Tech dealmakers skeptical that M&A will pick up after election

Lina Khan, chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s antitrust division, participate in a discussion on antitrust reforms at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Oct. 4, 2023. Khan assumed the role of FTC chair in June 2021 after being appointed by U.S. President Joe … Read more

OpenAI announces new independent board oversight committee for safety

OpenAI announces new independent board oversight committee for safety

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Microsoft Build conference at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on May 21, 2024. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images OpenAI on Monday said its Safety and Security Committee, which the company introduced in May as it dealt with controversy over security processes, will become an independent board … Read more

Intel turns foundry business into subsidiary, weighs outside funding

Intel turns foundry business into subsidiary, weighs outside funding

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger holds a sample of a wafer during his keynote speech at the Computex conference in Taipei on June 4, 2024. I-hwa Cheng | AFP | Getty Images Intel shares jumped 8% in extended trading on Monday after the company said it plans to turn its foundry business into an independent unit … Read more

How I’m approaching the market after its reversal in September

How I’m approaching the market after its reversal in September

Before taping a Friday “Mad Money,” I always look at the week’s market performance just in case the percentages are noteworthy. They usually aren’t. But this week things were different, very different. The S & P 500 and the Nasdaq had their best weekly gains of 2024, gains that made up for the prior week, which … Read more

We ranked Q2 earnings from 30 portfolio stocks from great to ugly

We ranked Q2 earnings from 30 portfolio stocks from great to ugly

It was a solid quarter for the companies in our stock portfolio, with the bulk of our names reporting what we felt were good-to-great earnings reports. Continued economic growth on the back of a resilient consumer and increasing business confidence ahead of what most expect to be a lower interest rate environment helped drive the … Read more

Larry Ellison briefly passes Jeff Bezos as world’s second richest man

Larry Ellison briefly passes Jeff Bezos as world’s second richest man

Larry Ellison, chief technology officer of Oracle (L), and Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon. Reuters Oracle‘s best week on the stock market since 2021 has bolstered Chairman Larry Ellison’s net worth, briefly edging him past Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Friday to become the world’s second-richest person. Ellison’s net worth reached $208.4 … Read more

Tiger Global plans to join OpenAI’s funding round at more than $150 billion valuation

Tiger Global plans to join OpenAI’s funding round at more than 0 billion valuation

In this photo illustration, the OpenAI logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen with a photo of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. Didem Mente | Anadolu | Getty Images Tiger Global is planning to join OpenAI’s buzzy new funding round that would value the artificial intelligence startup at more than $150 billion, according to … Read more