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White House crafting executive order to thwart state AI laws
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on artificial intelligence at the “Winning the AI Race” Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters An executive order that could soon be signed by President Donald Trump would thwart states’ artificial intelligence laws by launching legal challenges and withholding federal funding, according to […]
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Nvidia says there’s ‘no assurance’ of final agreement with OpenAI despite $100 billion pact
Two months ago Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stood side by side in San Jose, California, to announce a historic agreement between the two leaders in artificial intelligence. Nvidia would invest $100 billion over a number of years, starting in 2026, as OpenAI’s AI supercomputing facilities come online, the duo said. […]
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Elon Musk’s xAI will be first customer for Nvidia-backed data center in Saudi Arabia
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (L) talks with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center on Nov. 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images Nvidia and xAI said on Wednesday that a large data center facility being built in Saudi Arabia and equipped with hundreds of thousands […]
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Watch: Elon Musk, Jensen Huang talk AI at U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum
The stream was slated to start at 11:00 a.m. ET. CNBC Television will start the stream when the event begins. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above. Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will speak in Washington at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum Wednesday at The Kennedy Center. […]
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Downdetector shows Elon Musk’s X down for thousands of U.S. users, Cloudflare having issues
Cloudflare store is seen at Promenade Street in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21, 2025. Ă–mer Sercan Karku | Anadolu | Getty Images Elon Musk’s X was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 11,500 reports of issues with the social media platform […]
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Tesla recalls 10,500 Powerwall 2 battery systems due to overheating, fire risk
Tesla’s Powerwall 2 Source: Tesla Tesla is recalling around 10,500 units of its Powerwall 2, a backup battery for residential use, according to a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission disclosure out Thursday. “The lithium-ion battery cells in certain Powerwall 2 systems can cause the unit to stop functioning during normal use, which can result in […]
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Op-ed: Chinese robots are coming for Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar Tesla payday
Visitors check out an Optimus humanoid exhibited by Tesla at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China Monday, July 28, 2025. Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images Elon Musk’s bid to become the world’s first trillionaire increasingly rests on a single proposition: that Tesla can evolve from an electric-vehicle company into a […]
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Musk’s xAI raises $15 billion in latest funding round
Elon Musk announced his new company xAI, which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has raised $15 billion from investors, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC’s David Faber. The funding adds another $5 billion […]
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Firefly Aerospace shares jump 15% on strong revenues, boosted guidance
Jason Kim, chief executive officer of Firefly Aerospace, center, during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Firefly Aerospace‘s stock surged 15% on Wednesday after the space technology company issued better-than-expected third-quarter results and lifted its guidance. […]
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