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Microsoft plans first voluntary retirement program for US employees
People are reflected at a Microsoft store in Manhattan on March 31, 2026, in New York City.Zamek | View Press | Corbis News | Getty ImagesMicrosoft will offer voluntary buyouts to some U.S. employees, a first for the 51-year-old software…
Truecaller faces mounting pressures as its growth matures
Truecaller is one of the world’s most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users. Now it’s entering a more challenging phase as growth slows in its largest market and competition intensifies across…
Tesla and xAI’s Grok shows promises and risks of AI chatbots in cars
Tesla owner Mike Nelson has been using the AI chatbot Grok in his vehicle for several months now. He finds it is useful, nearly irresistible, and dangerous.Nelson, a lawyer with a background in auto insurance, showed CNBC how he uses…
Maine’s governor vetoes data center moratorium
Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a bill that would have temporarily brought permits for new data centers to a halt.
If it had become law, L.D. 307 would have imposed the country’s first statewide moratorium on new data centers —…
Aerospace and defense as growth drivers for ETFs amid Iran war
The aerospace and defense trade is taking investors deeper into space and exchange-traded funds want a part of it.VettaFi's Cinthia Murphy told CNBC's "ETF Edge" this week that there are now more ETFs tackling the space theme more…
AI talent war: Software industry executives jump ship to OpenAI
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 |…
Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce
In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money.
The company admitted this test — which it called Project Deal —…
A populist consumer movement is rising to end ‘captive’ repair economy
Ohio gubernatorial candidate Casey Putsch speaks with supporters at a campaign event in Toledo, Ohio, on Thursday, April 9, 2026. He is far behind in the polls, but Putsch is part of a nationwide message of economic populism and is…
Lachy Groom to back India startup Pronto at a $200M valuation, sources say
Pronto, an Indian instant house-help startup, is finalizing a funding round led by tech investor Lachy Groom that would value the fast-growing company at about $200 million after investment, TechCrunch has learned.
The deal is expected…
Intel stock soars more than 20% as chipmaker shows signs of turnaround
The Intel logo is displayed in front of Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California, Jan. 22, 2026.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesIntel shares soared 24% on Friday, their best performance since October 1987, as investors cheered signs…
Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes
Palantir has helped the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations office probe a variety of financial crimes in the U.S. for much of the last decade, The Intercept reported.
The IRS has paid the firm $130 million since 2018 to…
Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang gestures during the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference in San Jose, California, U.S. March 17, 2026. Carlos Barria | ReutersNvidia shares closed at a record on Friday for the first time since October, pushing the…
Meta will use hundreds of thousands of AWS Graviton chips
Around 3.6 billion people use Meta's applications every day, and the social networking company will be operating 32 data centers to handle the load with the completion of a new one in Oklahoma. But that's not enough.Amazon's cloud unit…
Porsche is adding an all-electric Cayenne coupe to its lineup
Porsche will start selling an all-electric Cayenne coupe in late summer, the latest signal from the German automaker that it still sees market demand for EVs.
The Cayenne coupe EV — which has four doors, unlike a traditional coupe —…
Alibaba’s Qwen AI is coming to cars, allowing drivers order food and book hotels by voice
Audi's electric SUV, the E7X, will begin presales on May 8. The vehicle will incorporate AI features from ByteDance's Doubao and iFlyTek.Evelyn Cheng | CNBCBEIJING — Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Friday that its Qwen artificial…
Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment
Sierra, the customer service agent startup founded by Bret Taylor, announced on Thursday that it has acquired the YC-backed French startup Fragment, which helps businesses integrate AI into workflows.
This is Sierra’s third public…
Nvidia backs AI company Vast Data at $30 billion valuation
Vast Data announced a $1 billion funding round at a $30 billion valuation on Wednesday, with Nvidia among those backing the AI company.Founded in 2016, Vast makes software infrastructure for managing large amounts of data, with a focus…
Anthropic in European AI data center push, recruits for key dealmaker
Anthropic is ramping up a push to secure European data center deals to power its AI models, as it looks to hire a role for negotiating compute capacity in the region.U.S. hyperscalers' AI infrastructure expenditure is set to top $600…