Year: 2025
Big bank earnings, Broadcom’s OpenAI chip deal, record-high car prices and more in Morning Squawk
A sign is posted in front of a Broadcom office in San Jose, California, on Dec. 12, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Broadcom’s boon OpenAI made its […]
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California just passed new AI and social media laws. Here’s what they mean for Big Tech
Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at Google San Francisco office about ‘Creating an AI-Ready Workforce’ that new joint effort with some of the world’s leading tech companies to help better prepare California’s students and workers for the next generation of technology, in San Francisco, California, United States on August 7, 2025. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | […]
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Stock futures drop as selling resumes on Wall Street after one-day bounce: Live updates
Traders work on the floor at New York Stock Exchange American at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., April 10, 2025. Jeenah Moon | Reuters Stock futures fell Tuesday, resuming the selling seen late last week, as fears around U.S.-China trade relations continue to percolate. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures lost […]
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Salesforce’s Agentforce software is coming to OpenAI’s ChatGPT later this year
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce is ramping up partnerships with leaders in generative artificial intelligence as investors continue to fear that the software company faces business risks due to the rapid growth […]
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Instagram rolls out PG-13 content guidelines for teenage users
Instagram has installed a new privacy setting which will default all new and existing underage accounts to an automatic private mode. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Meta will now limit the content that teenage users can see on Instagram to what they would typically encounter in a movie rated PG-13, the social media company said […]
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Oura reaches $11 billion valuation with new $900 million fundraise
The Oura Ring 4 Courtesy: Oura Oura said Tuesday that it raised over $900 million in a new Series E funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to $11 billion. The fundraise, led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, also includes new investor ICONIQ and contributions from Whale Rock and Atreides. “With this investment, we will […]
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GM to take $1.6 billion charge related to EV pullback
A Chevrolet Silverado EV and a Chevrolet Brightdrop, which is assembled in Canada, are seen on display at the Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 13, 2025. Carlos Osorio | Reuters DETROIT — General Motors’ third-quarter results next week will include a $1.6 billion impact from its all-electric vehicle plans not playing out […]
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Trump says the war is over, but the path to peace in the Middle East is fragile
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he poses next to a sign before a family photo at a world leaders’ summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Oct. 13, 2025. Suzanne Plunkett | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump was in […]
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OpenAI’s hyperscaler ambitions are being put to the test with its latest megadeals
Sam Altman didn’t set out to compete with Nvidia. OpenAI began with a simple bet that better ideas, not better infrastructure, would unlock artificial general intelligence. But that view shifted years ago, as Altman realized that more compute, or processing power, meant more capability — and ultimately, more dominance. On Monday morning, he unveiled his […]
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Disney has considered a co-CEO structure to replace Bob Iger. Its history may make that a bad idea
Dana Walden and Josh D’Amaro. Michael Buckner | Errich Petersen | Getty Images As 2025 enters its final months, Disney inches closer to the announcement the entire entertainment industry has been waiting for — who will take over for Bob Iger as the company’s next CEO. Disney has publicly stated it will name Iger’s successor […]
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