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CNBC Daily Open: China sets lowest growth target in decades
A plume of smoke rises after a strike on Tehran on March 4, 2026. Atta Kenare | AFP | Getty Images What you need to know today China on Thursday set its GDP growth target for 2026 at 4.5% to 5% — the lowest target on record going back to the early 1990s — according […]
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Amazon’s Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
People walk past the logo of Amazon Web Services (AWS) at its exhibitor stall at the India Mobile Congress 2025 at Yashobhoomi, a convention and expo center in New Delhi, India, October 8, 2025. Anushree Fadnavis | Reuters Amazon‘s data center in Bahrain was targeted by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the company’s support […]
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Tech industry group expresses ‘concern’ to Pete Hegseth over supply chain risk label
Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, arrives for a medal of honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, March 2, 2026. Jim Lo Scalzo | EPA | Bloomberg | Getty Images A tech industry group, whose members include Nvidia, Google and Anthropic, sent a letter to […]
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Investors say ‘safest’ software play Microsoft looks cheap at current prices
Investors said on CNBC Wednesday that “Magnificent Seven” titan Microsoft looks cheap at current prices. Microsoft, down 15% this year, is the largest stock swept up in the broader sell-off plaguing the software sector. Wall Street has grown increasingly fearful that artificial intelligence could disrupt these companies. MSFT YTD mountain MSFT YTD chart But investors […]
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Nvidia CEO Huang says $30 billion OpenAI investment ‘might be the last’
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks about the Vera Rubin AI platform at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Jan. 6, 2026. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company’s recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” it invests in the […]
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Defense tech companies are dropping Claude after Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images Following the Trump administration’s decision on Friday to blacklist Anthropic and designate its technology a supply chain risk, defense tech companies are telling employees to […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Trump promises insurance and protection for Gulf shipping
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Chancellor Merz (CDU) at the White House. Topics include the war in Iran, the tariff dispute between the EU and the USA, the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and China policy. Kay Nietfeld | Picture Alliance | Getty Images What you need to know today […]
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Sam Altman tells OpenAI staffers that military’s ‘operational decisions’ are up to the government
Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled “Transforming Business through AI” in Tokyo, on Feb. 3, 2025. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in an all-hands meeting on Tuesday that the company doesn’t “get to make operational […]
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Banking, payments services disrupted after Amazon UAE data centers hit in drone strikes
Foreign workers look at a tall plume of black smoke ascends following an explosion in the Fujairah industrial zone on March 3, 2026. Fadel Senna | Afp | Getty Images Apps and digital services in the United Arab Emirates are reporting outages following drone strikes on Amazon Web Services’ data centers in the country. AWS […]
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Google employees call for military limits on AI amid Iran strikes, Anthropic fallout
U.S. Department of War and Anthropic logos are seen in this illustration taken March 1, 2026. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Tech workers at Google, OpenAI, and some of their peers are circulating an array of letters calling for clearer limits on how their employers work with the military after the U.S. carried out strikes on […]
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