Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Jan Leike, one of the lead safety researchers at OpenAI who resigned from the artificial intelligence company earlier this month, said on Tuesday that he’s joined rival AI startup Anthropic. Leike announced his resignation from OpenAI on May 15, days before the company dissolved the superalignment group that he … Read more
A Texas Instruments sign in Dallas, June 14, 2023. Katie Tarasov Elliott, the $65 billion hedge fund best known for its shareholder activism, has made a $2.5 billion investment in Texas Instruments and is urging the company to improve its free cash flow by adapting a less rigid plan for capital expenditures. In a 13 … Read more
There was a good deal of divergence this week as higher bond yields on a hotter-than-expected reading on manufacturing activity slammed the economically sensitive Dow Jones Industrial Average , while an incredible quarter from Nvidia powered the Nasdaq . The S & P 500 , which leans more tech than the Dow and less tech … Read more
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Friday’s key moments. 1. Wall Street was bouncing higher Friday after, as Jim Cramer put it, a “really bad day” in the prior session. Thursday’s late-day decline happened as bond yields rose on … Read more
In photo at left, Megh McLaughlin, center, with co-workers at a performance of Beyonce’s Renaissance tour. In photo at right, Rob Breakiron with his daughter, Isabelle, at a performance of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour. Courtesy: Megh McLaughlin, left photo. Isabelle Breakiron, right photo At professional services firm KPMG, managing director Rob Breakiron feels more popular … Read more
Attendees walk through an expo hall during Amazon Web Services’ Reinvent conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas on Nov. 29, 2022. Noah Berger | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images In May 2023, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was asked by an attendee at the annual shareholder meeting how the company was innovating in generative … Read more
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday analyzed the current market action, pointing out the way consumer-focused companies are suffering while outfits that deal with data and have enterprise customers triumph. “Right now, you have to follow the money, and it’s currently flowing to businesses that cater to other businesses and the ones that need to interrogate … Read more
People walk by the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on Dec. 29, 2023. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a key milestone on Thursday, the latest in a more than 100-year ascent that’s involved an everchanging group of stocks. The closely followed average on Thursday broke above … Read more
Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, speaks at the startup’s Config conference in San Francisco on May 10, 2022. Figma Figma, a cloud-based design tool company, said Thursday it will allow investors, including current and former employees, to sell their shares in a tender offer that values the company at $12.5 billion. That’s up … Read more
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger will join Anthropic as chief product officer, the company announced Wednesday. Krieger, the former chief technology officer of Meta-owned Instagram, grew the platform to 1 billion users and increased its engineering team to more than 450 people during his time there, per a release. … Read more
