Technology
U.S. federal AI regulation is on the way, Sen. Marsha Blackburn says, regardless of big tech opposition
As U.S. states start to react to growing constituent concerns around the risks associated with artificial intelligence use, Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn said moving forward with a federal preemption standard is “imperative.” Earlier this week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of bills focused on those concerns — while also vetoing some strict AI […]
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HPE stock sinks 10% on weak guidance for fiscal 2026
Antonio Neri, President and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares sank 7% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company issued disappointing guidance for its fiscal 2026. At a meeting with analysts, HPE said its adjusted earnings per share for the year would be in the range of […]
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Apple wants more sports rights, change how broadcasts are done, Eddy Cue says
Eddy Cue, senior vice president of internet software and services at Apple Inc., arrives for a morning session of the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Wednesday, July 11, 2018. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple services chief Eddy Cue said the iPhone maker would like to […]
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Sam Altman says OpenAI isn’t ‘moral police of the world’ after erotica ChatGPT post blows up
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday that the company is “not the elected moral police of the world” after receiving backlash […]
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The Abu Dhabi investor that’s funding AI while trying to save TikTok — with help from Trump
UAE National Security Advisor, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House on March 18, 2025. Courtesy: Donald J. Trump | Via Truth Social As artificial intelligence startups raise increasingly large sums of cash to fund their swelling infrastructure needs, they’re turning to strategic partners like Nvidia […]
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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 4.5, a smaller, cheaper AI model
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in 2025. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Wednesday announced Claude Haiku 4.5, a small artificial intelligence model that’s available as a lower-cost offering for all of the company’s users. The model is fast and can outperform other […]
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Cramer: This European company is key to understanding U.S.-China trade tensions
With U.S.-China trade tensions ratcheted back up, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said investors need to look to Europe to better understand the animosity between the world’s two largest economies. That’s where they will find ASML , the Netherlands-based maker of advanced lithography machines that are essential in producing the cutting-edge semiconductors from the likes of Nvidia […]
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Walmart deploys millions of new sensors in retail’s first large-scale deployment of IoT tech
Walmart is deploying millions of ambient Internet of Things battery-free sensors throughout its massive supply chain in the U.S. The retail giant is using technology from Wiliot in what the IoT vendor is calling the first large-scale deployment of ambient IoT in the retail sector and one of the largest such implementations to date. Ambient […]
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Nvidia, Microsoft, xAI and BlackRock part of $40 billion deal for Aligned Data Centers
An Aligned data center in Northlake, Illinois, US, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia, Microsoft, BlackRock and Elon Musk’s xAI are part of a consortium of investors that has agreed to purchase Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. Aligned designs and operates data centers […]
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A guide to the $1 trillion-worth of AI deals between OpenAI, Nvidia and others
Many predict that the artificial intelligence boom will dramatically change how people live and work, and the scale and pace of recent AI deals seems to reflect this. At the center are a handful of companies that are increasingly turning to each other to finance and build out the necessary infrastructure. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI alone has […]
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