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Amazon surpasses Walmart in annual revenue for first time, as both chase AI-fueled growth
Signs for Walmart (L) and Amazon. Getty Images For the first time, Amazon has dethroned Walmart as the company with the largest annual revenue. Walmart on Thursday reported annual revenue of $713.2 billion for its most recent fiscal year, shy of Amazon’s $716.9 billion in revenue. The milestone was brewing for months, as Amazon leapfrogged […]
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Chinese tech companies progress ‘remarkable,’ OpenAI’s Altman tells CNBC
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) takes a group photo with AI company leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (C) and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (R) at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images The progress of Chinese tech companies across the entire stack […]
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Meta deal for millions of Nvidia chips is big — these 2 charts illustrate why
Meta Platforms ‘ pledge to spend billions of dollars on Nvidia chips is a much-needed shot in the arm for the AI semiconductor giant and its recently middling stock. Nvidia’s scorching multiyear rally had cooled off in recent months, as investor dollars moved into other buzzy corners of the chip market like memory and storage, […]
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Amazon’s losing streak, Berkshire’s new position, the ‘boomcession’ and more in Morning Squawk
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. I’ve been craving birria since reading about the Mike’s Red Tacos new franchising plan. Stock futures are higher this morning. The three major indexes all ended yesterday’s session little changed. Here are five key things investors need to know to […]
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Meta expands Nvidia deal to use millions of AI chips in data center build-out, including standalone CPUs
Meta’s 5-gigawatt Hyperion data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Jan. 9, 2026. Courtesy of Meta Meta will use millions of Nvidia chips in its artificial intelligence data centers, including Nvidia’s new standalone CPUs and next-generation Vera Rubin systems, in a sweeping new deal announced Tuesday. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement […]
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The AI trade has entered a puzzling phase. Do we know who the winners are anymore?
All hail Anthropic, the destroyer of everything. What an amazing service. It can wipe out Adobe by allowing you to design something better that has a much simpler commerce system, designed personally for you. That one is child’s play. ServiceNow may call itself the “AI Control Tower” to signify who is in charge, but the […]
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Anthropic executive takes a thinly-veiled swipe at OpenAI over spending and ads
Anthropic is focused on growing its business rather than making “flashy headlines,” its commercial chief told CNBC in a thinly-veiled swipe at rival OpenAI as the public war of words between the AI giants continues. Anthropic aired ads at Sunday’s Super Bowl taking a dig at OpenAI’s decision to begin testing ads on ChatGPT. OpenAI […]
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Coca-Cola earnings, Google’s AI risks, Target layoffs and more in Morning Squawk
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Good morning. Fresh off his feature in Salesforce’s Super Bowl ad, MrBeast is getting into banking. The YouTuber, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, said Monday that his company Beast Industries acquired the financial services app Step. Stock futures are little changed […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Oracle, Cleveland-Cliffs, Nexstar, Workday, Hims & Hers
Check out some of the companies making the biggest moves midday: Kyndryl Holdings — The IT infrastructure services provider spun out from IBM tumbled 55% after Kyndryl disclosed in a regulatory filing that its audit committee is reviewing the company’s cash management practices. It also reported CFO David Wyshner and General Counsel Edward Sebold have […]
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This ancillary AI stock hits another record high. How we’re playing the rally
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. 1. The S & P 500 rose on Monday, supported by strength in big tech. Club holdings Nvidia and Broadcom climbed more than 3%, building on gains from Friday’s broad […]
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