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Hands-on with the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., wears a pair of Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg |…
Google isn’t kidding around about cost cutting, even slashing its FT subscription
Google is ending its enterprise subscription to the Financial Times, and it’s not the only enterprise media subscription on the chopping block, sources say. The cuts reflect broader cost-reduction efforts at the search giant, even as…
Elon Musk’s xAI raising $10 billion at $200 billion valuation: sources
Elon Musk's xAI is raising $10 billion from investors in a round that values the artificial intelligence startup at $200 billion, sources with direct knowledge of the situation told CNBC's David Faber.It's the latest example of…
Navan files for IPO with corporate travel firm riding deal market boom
Navan, the business travel, payments, and expense management startup, filed on Friday afternoon to go public.Its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicates that the company plans to list on the Nasdaq Global Select…
Why California’s SB 53 might provide a meaningful check on big AI companies
California’s state senate recently gave final approval to a new AI safety bill, SB 53, sending it to Governor Gavin Newsom to either sign or veto.
If this all sounds familiar, that’s because Newsom vetoed another AI safety bill,…
Amazon reseller Pattern debuts on Nasdaq after IPO raised $300 million
E-commerce firm Pattern Group's co-founder and CEO David Wright, his co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer and wife Melanie Alder, and the staff members attend the company's IPO at the Nasdaq market in New York City, U.S., Sept. 19, 2025.…
Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web
Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X, has a new plan to make money.
Instead of relying entirely on donations and grants as…
Apple iPhone 17 goes on sale as questions remain over China market, AI strategy
A customer holds up the new orange-colored iPhone 17 Pro Max smartphone inside an Apple retail store in Chongqing, China, on September 19, 2025. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe iPhone 17 hit store shelves worldwide on…
Smart glasses are the future of computing
Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox said on Thursday that smart glasses are the future of computing devices."We talk to them, we will see with them, we will use gestures the same way we interact with each other to interact with our…
How AI startups are fueling Google’s booming cloud business
Google Cloud announced Thursday it has added fast-rising AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf to its roster of customers. Both companies have chosen Google Cloud as their primary cloud computing provider, the latest sign of Google’s…
NBA star Kevin Durant can’t unlock his Coinbase bitcoin account
Kevin Durant #35 of the Phoenix Suns looks on during the second half against the Houston Rockets at PHX Arena on March 30, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona. Chris Coduto | Getty ImagesNBA superstar Kevin Durant can't find the password to his…
India leads the way on Google’s Nano Banana with a local creative twist
Google’s Nano Banana image-generation model, officially known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, has fueled global momentum for the Gemini app since launching last month. But in India, it has taken on a creative life of its own, with retro…
Mark Zuckerberg unveils $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses
At the Meta Connect developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg, head of the Facebook group Meta, shows the prototype of computer glasses that can display digital objects in transparent lenses.Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty…
StubHub (STUB) stock starts trading on NYSE, opens at $25.35
Eric Baker, co-founder and CEO of Ticket reseller StubHub, rings the opening bell during his company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., September 17, 2025.Brendan McDermid | ReutersStubHub shares dropped more…
The iPhone Air’s real breakthrough is its battery
The iPhone Air’s thin design might be eye catching, and the amount of engineering that went into miniaturizing its logic board is impressive. But according to Gene Berdichevsky, co-founder and CEO of battery materials manufacturer Sila,…
Alibaba shares rise after it lands major customer for its AI chips
The Alibaba office building in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, on Aug. 28, 2024.CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesAlibaba shares rose on Wednesday after Chinese state media reported that the e-commerce giant secured a major…
Groww, backed by Satya Nadella, set to become first Indian startup to go public after U.S.-to-India…
Groww, India’s largest retail brokerage firm, is set to test the country’s public markets with a multi-billion-dollar IPO. The listing comes comes just over a year after the company restructured its corporate headquarters from Delaware…
StubHub to price IPO at $23.50, valuing company at $8.6 billion
The StubHub logo is seen at its headquarters in San Francisco.Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesOnline ticket platform StubHub is pricing its IPO at $23.50, CNBC's Leslie Picker confirmed on Tuesday.The pricing comes at the…