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OpenAI slams Anthropic in memo to shareholders as its leading AI rival gains momentum
Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled “Transforming Business through AI” in Tokyo, on Feb. 3, 2025. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images With Anthropic gaining momentum in the booming AI market, OpenAI sent a memo to investors this week slamming its chief […]
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Salesforce won’t be discarded in the AI boom, but what companies want is changing
Companies are not going to abandon Salesforce altogether in the age of artificial intelligence, but they are changing how they use it and what they expect. For Morgan DeBaun, CEO and co-founder of digital media group Blavity, cost-saving enabled by AI is a major factor in how she views Salesforce going forward. Blavity, which aims […]
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Andy Jassy makes it clear giving up on Amazon’s stock would be an expensive mistake
Amazon ‘s stock performance hasn’t been much to write home about lately. But CEO Andy Jassy’s latest annual letter to shareholders strengthened our resolve to stick with it. The reason: Amazon is putting a ton of shots on goal, and the company’s track record suggests enough of them will find the back of the net, […]
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Meta released a new AI model this week. JPMorgan sees it as a turning point for the stock
Meta Platforms is a buy following the release of its long-awaited artificial intelligence model this week, according to JPMorgan. The investment bank reiterated its overweight rating for Meta. It also reaffirmed its $825 price target on shares, suggesting 34.7% upside from Wednesday’s close. “The launch of Muse Spark should provide increased confidence in Meta’s scaling […]
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Amazon CEO Jassy defends $200 billion AI spend: “We’re not going to be conservative”
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during a keynote address at AWS re:Invent 2024, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 3, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Noah Berger | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday released his annual shareholder letter and once again made the case […]
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Google expands partnership with Intel for AI chips
Intel Xeon 6 processors are shown to CNBC at Intel’s advanced packaging facility in Chanfler, Ariona, on November 17, 2025. Tony Puyol Google has committed to using multiple generations of Intel central processing units in its artificial intelligence data centers, an expansion of an existing partnership. Intel shares gained 2% on Thursday while Alphabet shares […]
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Meta’s long-awaited AI model is finally here. But can it make money?
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., wears a pair of Meta Oakley Vanguard AI glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Almost 10 months after Meta spent billions of dollars to bring in Scale AI’s […]
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Iran says U.S. breached ceasefire, Anthropic’s court loss, rate cut odds and more in Morning Squawk
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Good morning. We’re minutes away from the release of February’s personal consumption expenditures price index. Watch CNBC live for the numbers and analysis. Stock futures are lower this morning. All three major averages posted major gains yesterday. Here are five key things […]
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Meta commits to spending additional $21 billion with CoreWeave as AI costs keep rising
Arda Kucukkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images Meta has committed to spending an additional $21 billion on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, which comes on top of a prior arrangement of $14.2 billion, as the social media company continues to ramp up its investments in artificial intelligence. The new agreement, announced on Thursday, runs from […]
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Anthropic loses appeals court bid to temporarily block Pentagon blacklisting
New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and CEO and co-founder of Anthropic Dario Amodei speak onstage during the 2025 New York Times Dealbook Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, Dec. 3, 2025. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday denied Anthropic’s request for […]
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