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Wall Street still loves streaming, but are its affections well placed?
In an aerial view, the Netflix logo is displayed above Netflix corporate offices on October 7, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images There’s a love affair on Wall Street between investors and streaming. The romance started about a decade ago when consumers began cutting the cord with cable TV bundles en […]
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OpenAI touts Amazon alliance in memo, says Microsoft has ‘limited our ability’ to reach clients
OpenAI’s newly appointed revenue chief, Denise Dresser, sent a memo to staffers on Sunday, touting the company’s alliance with Amazon as a key growth driver for its enterprise business, while noting the constraints of its longstanding tie-up with Microsoft. Dresser’s memo lands less than two months after Amazon announced plans to invest up to $50 […]
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‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ rockets to $629 million worldwide at the box office
Scene from The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Source: Universal Pictures “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” enjoyed otherworldly success at the box office in its second weekend in theaters. The Universal and Illumination sequel added $69 million from 4,284 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday. That brings its running domestic total […]
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Vance, Bessent questioned tech giants on AI security before Anthropic’s Mythos release
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks next to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 25, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week questioned leading tech CEOs about the security of artificial intelligence models and how to respond to […]
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Here’s the inflation breakdown for March 2026 — in one chart
A woman shops for dairy products at a local supermarket in the Sugar Hill neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City on April 9, 2026. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images Inflation spiked in March as the Iran war pushed up gasoline and other prices for consumers. The consumer price index, a […]
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Standstill in the Strait of Hormuz, new inflation data, Warsh’s Senate hearing and more in Morning Squawk
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Friday. Have any letters you’ve been meaning to send? You might want to get them in the mail sooner rather than later: The U.S. Postal Service is looking to hike prices as it goes through what it calls a “severe financial […]
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The Tech Download: Reputational damage, supply chain issues and local investment. What’s next for Middle East tech?
This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. The past week has seen some progress, albeit uneasy and stilted, being made towards ending the Iran war. A two-week ceasefire was agreed on Wednesday, and while it looks fragile, hopes of the conflict approaching a close are […]
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Anthropic weighs building its own AI chips: Reuters
Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its own chips, three sources said, as the company and its rivals respond to a shortage of AI chips needed to power and develop more advanced AI systems. Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its own chips, three sources said, as the […]
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AI threat’s relentless flogging of software stocks shows no end in sight with Anthropic’s new agent
Software’s artificial intelligence troubles don’t appear as though they will let up anytime soon, following the sector’s slide after Anthropic’s latest product and revenue updates. Software is down again this week, with the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) falling Wednesday — when most of the market participated in a sharp rally following President Donald […]
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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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