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Disney making $1 billion investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI video generator
Disney CEO Bob Iger attends late US actor Chadwick Boseman’s posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame Star ceremony in Los Angeles, California, on Nov. 20, 2025. Unique Nicole | AFP | Getty Images The Walt Disney Company on Thursday announced it will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and will allow users to make […]
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Esusu, platform for renters to build credit scores, valued at $1.2 billion in new funding round
Esusu, a fintech platform that helps renters build credit scores, has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation. Renters have remained largely excluded from the traditional credit system, with an estimated $1.4 trillion paid to landlords every year in the U.S., but only 20% of those landlords choosing […]
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The Fed’s hawkish cut, Oracle earnings, Coca-Cola’s next CEO and more in Morning Squawk
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a press conference following the Federal Open Markets Committee meeting at the Federal Reserve on Dec. 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | 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 […]
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Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of Harness, speaks at the company’s Unscripted conference in London on Sept. 25, 2025. Harness Almost nine years ago, Jyoti Bansal sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion just as the software startup was set to go public. Bansal’s latest venture, Harness, is now worth substantially more than that, after […]
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Oracle shares plummet 11% in premarket, dragging down AI stocks
Oracle shares plummeted 11% in premarket trading on Thursday, extending yesterday’s losses after the firm reported disappointing results. The cloud computing and database software maker reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue on Wednesday, despite booming demand for its artificial intelligence infrastructure. Its revenue came in at $16.06 billion, compared with $16.21 billion expected by analysts, according to data compiled by […]
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Google’s AI unit DeepMind announces its first ‘automated research lab’ in the UK
Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s AI unit, unveiled plans for its first “automated research lab” in the U.K. as it signs a partnership that could lead to the company deploying its latest models in the country. The AI company will open the lab, which will use AI and robotics to run experiments, in the U.K. […]
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AI defense booms in UK and Germany as new wave of billion-dollar startups emerge
The U.K. and Germany are emerging as key hubs for a new wave of AI defense startups, as Europe scrambles to rearm amid rising geopolitical tensions. Private funding for defense startups across the region has ramped up in recent years, with investors looking to tap into increasing government military budgets, driven by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine […]
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Cisco’s stock closes at record for first time since dot-com peak in 2000
Chuck Robbins, chief executive officer of Cisco, participates in a Bloomberg interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Few companies were as hot in early 2000 as Cisco, whose networking equipment served as the backbone of the internet boom. On Wednesday, Cisco’s […]
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Oracle set to report quarterly results after the bell
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder and chief technology officer, appears at the Formula One British Grand Prix in Towcester, U.K., on July 6, 2025. Jay Hirano | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Oracle is scheduled to report fiscal second-quarter results after market close on Wednesday. Here’s what analysts are expecting, according to LSEG: Earnings […]
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‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up
The Starcloud-1 satellite is launched into space from a SpaceX rocket on November 2, 2025. Courtesy: SpaceX | Starcloud Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud trained an artificial intelligence model from space for the first time, signaling a new era for orbital data centers that could alleviate Earth’s escalating digital infrastructure crisis. Last month, the Washington-based company launched […]
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