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Meta (META) Q4 2025 earnings
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., wears a pair of Meta Oakley Vanguard AI glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg |…
Elon Musk reportedly wants a June SpaceX IPO to align with his birthday, the planets
Elon Musk is eyeing sometime in June for SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO, according to the Financial Times. The billionaire reportedly wants the offering to coincide with both his birthday (June 28th) and the rare alignment of Mercury, Venus,…
16,000 jobs to be cut in latest anti-bureaucracy push
Amazon said Wednesday it plans to eliminate about 16,000 corporate jobs, marking its second round of mass job cuts since last October. In a blog post, the company wrote that the layoffs were part of an ongoing effort to "strengthen our…
What you should know about the owners of US TikTok
ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. This restructuring aims to separate U.S. TikTok from its Chinese parent, addressing concerns about data…
One year after DeepSeek, Chinese AI firms from Alibaba to Moonshot race to release new models
BEIJING — Chinese companies are accelerating the rollout of new artificial intelligence models as competition with U.S.-based rivals OpenAI, Anthropic and Google intensifies.Just over a year ago, China-made DeepSeek rocked global markets…
Pinterest laying off 15% of workforce as part of AI push; stock falls
Sheldon Cooper | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesPinterest said Tuesday it plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce and cut back on office space as the company embraces artificial intelligence. In a securities filing, Pinterest said it…
Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use
Help desk automation is a billion-dollar industry, and one of the most likely to be disrupted by tech built upon AI. Major players like Zendesk, ServiceNow and Freshworks currently dominate the space, but lots of smaller startups are…
This university campus is heated by an AI data center. Your home could be next
Students at a tech university in Dublin are enjoying an unexpected perk of artificial intelligence — it's helping heat their campus.Since 2023, the Technological University of Dublin's Tallaght campus has been one of a growing number of…
Qualcomm backs SpotDraft to scale on-device contract AI with valuation doubling toward $400M
As demand grows for privacy-first enterprise AI that can run without sending sensitive data to the cloud, SpotDraft has raised $8 million from Qualcomm Ventures in a strategic Series B extension to scale its on-device contract review…
Nvidia invested in these European tech companies in 2025
Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI, Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia, on stage at Vivatechnology, in Paris, France on June 11, 2025. (Photo by AUGUSTIN PASQUINI/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)Augustin Pasquini | Afp | Getty ImagesNvidia has become…
CoreWeave stock jumps as Nvidia invests $2 billion for data centers
Michael Intrator, CEO of Coreweave, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 20th, 2026. Oscar Molina | CNBCShares of CoreWeave popped 12% on Monday after Nvidia announced it has invested $2…
Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out
British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4 billion — up from $2.1 billion just a year ago.
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Pardoned Binance founder denies business relationship with Trumps
Binance founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao said his business relationship with President Donald Trump's family has been "misconstrued" in the wake of his pardon. "There's no business relationships whatsoever," Zhao told CNBC's Andrew Ross…
This founder cracked firefighting — now he’s creating an AI gold mine
Sunny Sethi, founder of HEN Technologies, doesn’t sound like someone who’s disrupted an industry that has remained largely unchanged since the 1960s. His company builds fire nozzles — specifically, nozzles that it says increase…
Databricks obtains $1.8 billion in additional debt ahead of IPO
Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi.DatabricksData analytics software company Databricks has landed $1.8 billion in fresh debt, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. Databricks now has access to over $7 billion in debt, the…
Sen. Gillibrand ‘optimistic’ Senate Agriculture will advance crypto bill
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is "very optimistic" the Senate Agriculture Committee's updated legislation to regulate cryptocurrencies will advance, even though Republicans have yet to reach a deal with Democrats. "Senators have been…
Gmail is having issues with spam and misclassification
If your Gmail account doesn’t seem to be working properly today, you’re not alone.
The official status dashboard for Google Workspace suggests that the issues began at around 5am Pacific on Saturday morning, with users experiencing…
Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tries on Orion AR glasses at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 25, 2024. REUTERS/Manuel OrbegozoManuel Orbegozo | ReutersMeta's deprioritizing…