CEO of world’s largest wealth fund says there’s a lot of froth

CEO of world’s largest wealth fund says there’s a lot of froth

The chief executive of Norway’s gigantic sovereign wealth fund on Tuesday said there is “clearly a lot of froth” in the tech sector, suggesting that whether there is too much of it could depend on this week’s tech earnings bonanza. U.S. tech behemoths including Tesla, Meta, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet are all scheduled to … Read more

Cramer notes positives in Monday’s rebound, warns vs. lasting gains

Cramer notes positives in Monday’s rebound, warns vs. lasting gains

CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer Rob Kim | NBCUniversal CNBC’s Jim Cramer noted positive stock performances in the market rebound on Monday, but indicated Big Tech earnings coming this week will tell the tale on whether it will last. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 253.58 points, or 0.67%, to close at 38,239.98. The S&P 500 traded 0.87% … Read more

Big Tech keeps prioritizing AI as earnings approach

Big Tech keeps prioritizing AI as earnings approach

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford’s 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, US, on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images As tech’s behemoths get set to report earnings this week, they do so facing a mountain of drama. At Google, there have been protests and … Read more

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will offer its virtual reality OS to hardware companies

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will offer its virtual reality OS to hardware companies

Meta will partner with external hardware companies, including Lenovo, Microsoft and Asus, to build virtual reality headsets using the company’s Meta Horizon operating system, the company said Monday. The move will create new hardware devices that run on the same operating system and software as Meta’s current first-party virtual reality hardware, such as the Quest … Read more

Investing in the AI theme for the long haul. How to pick the winners

Investing in the AI theme for the long haul. How to pick the winners

Fotografielink | Istock | Getty Images Artificial intelligence has shaken up the investing landscape since the groundbreaking launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. Since then, investors have poured money into all things related to AI as they hunt for the next big winners. In 2023, a group of major technology players dubbed the Magnificent Seven … Read more

The cause of Super Micro’s 23% drop Friday? Go back to March 8

The cause of Super Micro’s 23% drop Friday? Go back to March 8

At law school, we learned about “proximate cause,” one of the few valuable concepts you can take from three years of drudgery. It’s about who and what caused the injury and who pays for it. The current stock market lends itself to proximate causes, as in, “We have to find a cause for the pronounced … Read more

Earnings from Tesla, Merck and Big Tech

Cramer notes positives in Monday’s rebound, warns vs. lasting gains

CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer Rob Kim | NBCUniversal CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday noted that major quarterly results from players like Verizon, Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet will be coming next week, but he zeroed in on the importance of the Personal Consumption Expenditures index because it is the real gauge of inflation. Cramer said the … Read more

Meta AI assistant comes to WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger

Meta AI assistant comes to WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California on September 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta on Thursday announced its free artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI, is rolling out across its social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. The assistant … Read more

Cisco debuts new AI-focused cybersecurity system after Splunk deal

Cisco debuts new AI-focused cybersecurity system after Splunk deal

The Cisco logo is on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on February 26, 2024.  Charlie Perez | Nurphoto | Getty Images Enterprise technology titan Cisco Systems on Thursday unveiled a new security architecture product aimed at securing data centers, clouds, and other IT environments with the help of AI. Called HyperShield, … Read more

AWS stops selling Snowmobile truck for cloud migrations

AWS stops selling Snowmobile truck for cloud migrations

Amazon Web Services Snowmobile Truck CNBC At Amazon’s annual cloud conference in 2016, the company captured the crowd’s attention by driving an 18-wheeler onstage. Andy Jassy, now Amazon’s CEO, called it the Snowmobile, and said the company would be using the truck to help customers speedily transfer data to Amazon Web Services facilities. Less than … Read more