Day: March 24, 2026
Asia-Pacific markets are set for higher open as Trump comments signal Iran war de-escalation
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – MARCH 05: A currency dealer works in front of an electronic screen showing South Korea’s benchmark stock index (KOSPI) in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters on March 05, 2026 in Seoul, South Korea. The latest flare-up in the Iran conflict has hammered export‑reliant markets in South […]
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OpenAI raises additional money to bring record funding round to $120 billion, CFO tells Cramer
OpenAI is raising an additional $10 billion from investors as part of its historic funding round, CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday. The fresh capital brings OpenAI’s record fundraise to “north of $120 billion,” Friar said in an interview on “Mad Money.” That well exceeds the ChatGPT creator’s initial target of $100 […]
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Arm stock pops 6% as CEO Haas issues $15 billion revenue expectation for new chip
Arm Holdings stock popped 6% in after-hours trading on Tuesday as CEO Rene Haas announced 2031 annual revenue expectations that were more than six times what it was in 2025. Haas unveiled Arm’s first in-house chip on Tuesday at an event in San Francisco, with Meta as the initial customer. CNBC got an exclusive first […]
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Amazon acquires ‘approachable’ humanoid maker Fauna Robotics
Fauna CEO Rob Cochran with a Sprout robot. Courtesy: Fauna Robotics Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup that builds “approachable” humanoid robots for consumers and businesses, the company confirmed Tuesday. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “We are excited about Fauna’s vision to build capable, safe, and fun robots for everyone,” an Amazon spokesperson told CNBC […]
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Pentagon ban of Anthropic faces judge; Claude AI maker seeks injunction
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said Tuesday that the decision by the Pentagon to blacklist Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models “looks like an attempt to […]
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OpenAI shutters short-form video app Sora as company reels in costs
Six months after launching the Sora app and seeing it quickly go viral, OpenAI is shuttering the service, the company said on Tuesday. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” OpenAI wrote in a post on X. “What you made with Sora […]
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Jury reaches verdict in major Meta child safety trial in New Mexico
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 18, 2026. Jill Connelly | Getty Images A jury has reached a verdict in a major New Mexico trial in which the state’s attorney general alleged that Meta failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators. The civil trial, in which […]
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Trump says U.S. and Iran are ‘in negotiations right now,’ Tehran is ‘talking sense’
President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony for newly sworn in Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, March 24, 2026. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. and Iran are “in negotiations right now” and suggested Tehran […]
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Google partners with Agile Robots, growing its AI robotics footprint
Intrinsic’s flagship product, Flowstate, is a web-based platform that allows users to build robotic applications without having to write thousands of lines of code. Intrinsic Google is adding another robotics partnership to its belt as it leans into robotics as a key bet for artificial intelligence. Agile Robots develops intelligent, sensor-based robotic arms and humanoid […]
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World has ‘never experienced’ soaring refining margins like this, TotalEnergies CEO tells CNBC
Roughly 15% of TotalEnergies’ production is offline, as the war with Iran nears the one-month mark, but surging oil prices have more than made up for the lost barrels, chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanné told CNBC in an exclusive interview. With Brent crude trading solidly above $100 a barrel, much of the attention has focused […]
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