Technology
OpenAI will allocate IPO shares to retail investors as it preps for debut, CFO says
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2026. Oscar Molina | CNBC OpenAI plans to reserve a portion of shares for individual investors in what’s expected to be a blockbuster initial public offering. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told CNBC that […]
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Latest investigation of Bitcoin founder ties identity to Blockstream CEO Adam Back
Adam Back, co-founder and chief executive officer of Blockstream, during the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. Ronda Churchill | Bloomberg | Getty Images A report in the New York Times claims it has discovered the identity of the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin known as Satoshi Nakamoto. The […]
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Microsoft developer tools executive Julia Liuson is retiring after 34 years
The Microsoft store is pictured in Manhattan on March 31, 2026, in New York City. Zamek | View Press | Corbis News | Getty Images A longtime Microsoft executive leading the software company’s development tools group, Julia Liuson, told employees that she will retire in June and become an advisor. Liuson joined Microsoft in 1992, […]
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Anthropic gives our cyber stocks and other big tech names an AI stamp of approval
Project Glasswing. Sounds like something out of a spy movie. But those two words from AI poster-child Anthropic, and the efforts behind it, have sent beaten-down cybersecurity stocks soaring, along with a host of other megacap names. Glasswing — named after a butterfly with see-through wings as a metaphor for finding bugs in plain sight […]
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Iran ceasefire, Delta earnings, the Navy’s retail woes and more in Morning Squawk
1. ‘Fragile truce’ A television station broadcasts a news conference with US President Donald Trump on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, April 6, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stock futures rocketed higher overnight after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with […]
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AI’s next bottleneck: Why even the best chips made in the U.S. take a round trip to Taiwan
An underappreciated step in the chipmaking process is poised to become the next bottleneck for artificial intelligence. Every microchip used to power artificial intelligence must be put into hardware that can interact with the outside world. But right now, almost all of this chipmaking step, known as advanced packaging, happens in Asia, and capacity is […]
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Alibaba launches data center with 10,000 of its own chips as China ramps up AI push
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Alibaba and China Telecom are launching a data center in southern China powered by the e-commerce giant’s own chips, as the country ramps up its focus on homegrown AI infrastructure. The facility, announced on Tuesday, will feature 10,000 of Alibaba’s Zhenwu semiconductors which are designed for AI training […]
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says ‘AI shift’ opens opportunities to invest in startups
With Alphabet poised to earn potentially $100 billion or more from its 2015 bet on Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the explosion of artificial intelligence has opened the door to more startup investments. “You know SpaceX, Anthropic and so on so, I think now with the AI shift, there are more opportunities […]
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Is it time to buy tech, again? A flurry of good news from Broadcom may hold the answer
Has tech bottomed? That’s the question investors have been asking since the relief rally on the final trading day of March, which marked the end of the first quarter. Before Tuesday’s decline, driven by concern about President Donald Trump ‘s Iran deadline, the tech-heavy Nasdaq closed higher in each of the past four sessions. It […]
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Anthropic limits Mythos AI rollout over fears hackers could use model for cyberattacks
Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei speaks during the 56th annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Anthropic on Tuesday announced an advanced artificial intelligence model that will roll out to a select group of companies as part of a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing. The […]
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