Immigrants help keep job growth high as inflation cools

Immigrants help keep job growth high as inflation cools

U.S. President Joe Biden greets members of the U.S. Border Patrol at the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., February 29, 2024. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Immigration — both authorized and unauthorized — has helped the U.S. job market sustain a fiery run in recent months without reigniting inflation, economists and analysts say. The effect … Read more

Trump CEO meeting to include Dimon, Fraser, Moynihan

Trump CEO meeting to include Dimon, Fraser, Moynihan

US President Donald Trump gestures as CEO of Bank of America Brian Moynihan (L) speaks during a meeting with banking leaders to discuss how the financial services industry can meet the needs of customers affected by COVID-19 at the White House in Washington, DC on March 11, 2020. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images … Read more

Nadella, Narayen among tech CEOs investing in cricket’s American dream

Nadella, Narayen among tech CEOs investing in cricket’s American dream

Cricket may not be as popular a sport in the U.S. as elsewhere in the world, but some high-profile CEOs and investors are trying to change that. As the Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup, co-hosted by the U.S. for the first time, ramps up, investors have pumped nearly a billion dollars into their American ambition. … Read more

Microsoft says Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs will be off by default

Microsoft says Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs will be off by default

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington, on May 20, 2024. Chona Kasinger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft said an artificial intelligence feature on new PCs that captures screenshots and enables searching of user activity will be off by default after security researchers determined that attackers could … Read more

After ChatGPT and the rise of chatbots, investors pour into AI agents

After ChatGPT and the rise of chatbots, investors pour into AI agents

Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Earlier this year, financial services company Klarna said its artificial intelligence agent, powered by OpenAI, had taken over two-thirds of customer chats and was doing work equivalent to that of 700 full-time agents. That was after just one month of use. Alexander Kvamme, CEO of customer engagement startup … Read more

Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council

Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council

Twitch on Friday will terminate all members of its Safety Advisory Council, according to sources familiar with the situation and documents viewed by CNBC. The council is a resource of nine industry experts, streamers and moderators who consulted on trust and safety issues related to children on Twitch, nudity, banned users and more. The Amazon-owned … Read more

Google DeepMind, Microsoft AI, Anthropic among elite guests

Google DeepMind, Microsoft AI, Anthropic among elite guests

Google DeepMind co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis gives a conference during the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 26, 2024. Pau Barrena | Afp | Getty Images The CEOs of artificial intelligence heavyweights Google DeepMind, Microsoft AI, Anthropic and Mistral AI are among the elite … Read more

Windows recall satya nadella: Elon Musk wants to keep this Windows feature always off and why he called it ‘Black Mirror’

Windows recall satya nadella: Elon Musk wants to keep this Windows feature always off and why he called it ‘Black Mirror’

In a recent viral video, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced “Recall,” a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to boost productivity by mimicking a photographic memory. This feature continuously takes screenshots to “remember and understand everything you do on your computer.” Elon Musk’s Reaction Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk reacted negatively to the new tool. Known … Read more

Microsoft announces new PCs with AI chips from Qualcomm

Microsoft announces new PCs with AI chips from Qualcomm

Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during a company event on AI technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft is touting new computers with advanced chips designed to run artificial intelligence features of software for Windows, without quickly using up battery life. The … Read more

The year of AI PCs

The year of AI PCs

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Narayana Nadella speaks at a live Microsoft event in the Manhattan borough of New York City, October 26, 2016. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Microsoft‘s Build developer conference kicks off on Tuesday, giving the company the opportunity to showcase its latest artificial intelligence projects, following high-profile events this month hosted … Read more