Month: March 2026
Apple announces MacBook Neo, its first budget laptop in over a decade
Apple MacBook Neo Source: Apple Inc. For years, the cheapest way into the Mac lineup was a $999 laptop. On Wednesday, Apple cut that price nearly in half. The company unveiled the MacBook Neo, a colorful, lightweight laptop powered by an iPhone-grade chip. The launch caps a three-day hardware blitz that has already seen refreshes […]
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Trump sides with crypto firms in trillion-dollar battle with banks over stablecoin yield
US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One before departing Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on March 1, 2026, on his way back to Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump has thrown his support behind crypto firms in their high-stakes battle with U.S. banks over […]
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Defense tech companies are dropping Claude after Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist
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 Following the Trump administration’s decision on Friday to blacklist Anthropic and designate its technology a supply chain risk, defense tech companies are telling employees to […]
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Disney launches its Adventure cruise ship — a new foothold in Southeast Asia
Disney’s cruise line is going big in Asia. This month, the company’s eighth and largest ship, the Disney Adventure, will embark on its maiden voyage, carrying passengers on three- and four-night journeys at sea from its berth in Singapore. The vessel accommodates a whopping 6,700 passengers, around two-thirds more capacity than Disney’s Wish class ships, […]
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Bessent says global 15% tariff starts this week, predicts Trump duties will return to old levels later this year
President Donald Trump’s recently announced 15% global tariff will likely be implemented sometime this week, rising from its current rate of 10%, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday. Bessent also predicted that U.S. tariff rates would, by August, effectively return to where they stood before the Supreme Court recently struck down the often-steeper duties […]
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Gulf oil trade, Pentagon’s AI usage, Gen Z’s analog obsession and more in Morning Squawk
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC this morning that President Donald Trump’s 15% global tariff would be implemented this week. He also said the U.S. would make “a series of announcements” to support oil trade in the Gulf. Stock futures […]
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Remember Twitter? Elon Musk expected to testify over flip-flop in $44 billion buyout
Elon Musk looks on as President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Nov. 19, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images Since buying Twitter for around $44 billion in late 2022, Elon Musk has changed the name to X, merged […]
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Xiaomi trials humanoid robots in its EV factory — says they’re like ‘interns’
People look at Xiaomi’s humanoid robot ‘CyberOne’ during 2023 World Robot Conference at Beijing Etrong International Exhibition & Convention Center on August 18, 2023 in Beijing, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Xiaomi trialed its humanoid robots in its electric vehicle production plants, the company’s president told CNBC, as it looks to […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Moderna, Ross Stores, Box, Gitlab and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Moderna — The biotechnology firm’s stock rose nearly 11% after it said it agreed to pay up to $2.25 billion to settle with Biopharma Corporation and Genevant Sciences GmbH a lawsuit over a Covid vaccine patent dispute. Ross Stores — Shares popped 7% after the off-price […]
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Big investors have been fleeing for-sale housing market, even before Trump ordered ban
In an aerial view, two-story single family homes line the streets on Jan. 14, 2026 in Thousand Oaks, California. Kevin Carter | Getty Images Legislation to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes to rent is making its way through Congress, but many of them are already selling thousands of homes — and have been […]
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