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AI cloud provider Nscale files to go public
Nscale, a cloud provider specializing in infrastructure for artificial intelligence models, has filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "NSCL." The company had a $1.02 billion net loss on $140.6 million…
At Dreamforce, business leaders say older AI models are enough
Dario Amodei, Anthropic Co-Founder and CEO, and Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO and Co-Founder, attend Dreamforce 2026 summit in San Francisco, California, U.S., Sept.15, 2026.Carlos Barria | ReutersAt Salesforce's annual Dreamforce…
Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock geothermal
Geothermal startup Mazama Energy raised $135 million in an oversubscribed Series B, the startup said Thursday.
The fresh funding will help the company develop horizontal wells in super-hot rocks capable of generating 15 megawatts of…
Palantir CEO Karp: Leading AI labs may need to be nationalized
Palantir CEO Alex Karp called for "reasonable guidelines" on artificial intelligence regulation but said nationalization may be needed because of the liabilities tied to the technology's "unlimited risks." "The view that I believe they…
The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review. That issue reached a peak with the…
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will sell twice as many chips next year
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday that the company will double the number of chips it sells next year.It's the latest forecast from Nvidia that points to continuing massive growth for the next six quarters, and comes shortly after…
China’s AI models make only 10% of U.S. leaders’ revenue: Rhodium
Faisal Bashir | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China's artificial intelligence models may be enjoying rapid adoption but that isn't yet translating into revenue, raising questions about company valuations.All of China's AI models…
Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform
Voice AI has emerged as one of the hottest sectors in AI, with investors pouring in billions of dollars to serve use cases ranging from automating customer support and sales calls to creating meeting notetakers and developing AI smart…
Snap brings Specs enterprise, partnering with Nvidia, AWS, Salesforce
Snap is partnering with Nvidia, Amazon Web Services and Salesforce as part of an effort to bring its $2,000 Specs augmented reality glasses to the enterprise market. Evan Spiegel, Snap's CEO, characterized the initiative as tied to the…
X will now let U.S. users trade via cashtags
X will now allow users to trade from their timelines. The Elon Musk-owned social network on Wednesday launched a feature called Cashtag that will let U.S. users on X place stock trades via participating brokerages. Initial partners on…
Why you should worry about Anthropic, OpenAI’s proposed AI watchdogs
An Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana, on Oct. 2, 2025.Noah Berger | Getty ImagesThe most important new job in artificial intelligence may come with an office badge, a company laptop, and access to some of the…
We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made his position on the dangers AI poses very clear while speaking at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference on Tuesday. To him, AI isn’t some new form of “alien mind,” as at least one OpenAI safety…
South Korea’s university programs offering a route to Samsung and SK Hynix
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 13: Students wait for the start of the annual college entrance examinations at an exam hall on November 13, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. The annual College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), the country’s most…
Senate cloture vote on Clarity Act fails, dealing regulatory blow to crypto industry
The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework. The procedural vote leaves the bill stalled on Capitol Hill after…
AI agents now have a place to snitch
“If you see something, say something” is no longer limited to human beings.
Two new AI hotlines have launched to give AI agents a way to phone home about misbehaving peers. The tools arrive on the heels of a string of recent incidents…
Data center REIT CEO: Potential AI slowdown not ‘end of the world’ for real estate
Digital Realty Data Center in Ashburn, Virginia, March 17, 2025.Leah Millis | ReutersA version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for…
Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too
Correction: An earlier version of this piece identified the phone Jensen Huang used to take President Trump’s call as Apple’s iPhone Duo. That was incorrect — the device appears to be a Samsung Galaxy Fold 8. The piece has been updated…
Samsung backs AI chipmaker Euclyd in $230 million round
Samsung has backed a Dutch AI chipmaker in a $231 million funding round, amid a boom in investment in alternatives to Nvidia's graphic processing units.Euclyd CEO Bernardo Kastrup told CNBC exclusively that the company's 200-million-euro…