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CNBC Daily Open: Stocks were trounced in the first quarter amid Trump tariff chaos
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 28, 2025, in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Monday was the last trading day of the quarter. U.S. stocks took a heavy beating during the period: Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite broke their five-quarter winning streaks and […]
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OpenAI closes $40 billion funding round, largest private tech deal on record
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI on Monday announced it had closed what amounts to the largest private tech funding round on record. The $40 billion financing values […]
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AI chipmaker Cerebras announces CFIUS clearance, a key step toward IPO
Toronto , Canada – 20 June 2024; Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 20, 2024. Ramsey Cardy | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images Artificial intelligence chip developer Cerebras said Monday that it has obtained clearance from a U.S. committee to sell shares to […]
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Wall Street banks got meager payout from CoreWeave IPO
Michael Intrator, founder and CEO of CoreWeave Inc., Nvidia-backed cloud services provider, attends his company’s IPO at the Nasdaq Market in New York City on March 28, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Wall Street banks waited a long time for a billion dollar IPO from a U.S. tech company. They’re not making much money from […]
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OpenAI funding round could be cut by $10 billion if for-profit conversion doesn’t occur by year-end
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at Station F, is seen through glass, during an event on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, France, Feb. 11, 2025. Aurelien Morissard | Via Reuters OpenAI’s massive private funding round could be slashed by as much as $10 billion if the company doesn’t restructure into […]
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CoreWeave shares slump nearly 10% in second day of trading
Michael Intrator, Founder & CEO of CoreWeave, Inc., Nvidia-backed cloud services provider, attends his company’s IPO at the Nasdaq Market, in New York City, U.S., March 28, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters CoreWeave‘s stock sank nearly 10% on Monday, falling well below its initial public offering price. The artificial intelligence cloud provider sold shares at […]
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AI’s vibe-coding era: How the shift to apps changed the race
Value within the artificial intelligence industry is slowly shifting, from the companies developing models to the apps building on top of them. Early in the AI race, critics viewed apps like Perplexity, Replit, Sesame and Abridge as second-rate middlemen, slapping an interface on someone else’s technology. They were disparagingly known as AI wrappers: companies with […]
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These are Wall Street analysts’ favorite Dow stocks heading into the second quarter
The beginning of 2025 was a difficult one for the Dow Jones Industrial Average , but analysts are more optimistic on certain stocks heading into the second quarter. The 30-stock Dow has tumbled more than 2% in the first quarter. Chip giant Nvidia has led the decline with its 18% fall, followed by losses from […]
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Nvidia turned CoreWeave into a major player in AI years before helping to save its IPO
CoreWeave founders Brian Venturo, at left in sweatshirt, and Mike Intrator slap five after ringing the opening bell at Nasdaq headquarters in New York on March 28, 2025. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty Images If not for Nvidia, there would be no CoreWeave IPO. The artificial intelligence infrastructure startup might still […]
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Wall Street can’t decide if the extreme pessimism in markets is warranted or an overreaction
One person’s pessimism is another’s pragmatism. As a tough first quarter skids to a close, a crucial market debate is whether the recent mass outbreak of gloom is an overreaction to ambiguous economic and market signals, or simply a clear-eyed recognition that real-world conditions are souring fast. For anyone who has been around markets long […]
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