OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay titled "An Alien Mind" warning that AI systems could enable bioweapons, cyber weapons, and grid attacks, and that no lab has solved the alignme…
A hedge-fund manager has built his firm to be powered entirely by AI agents, a stark example of Wall Street's growing adoption of AI in finance. The firm's approach highlights both the benefits and li…
Australia proposed the 'My Feed, My Way' initiative on Tuesday, which would require social media platforms to let users over 16 opt out of algorithmic feeds and see only posts from accounts they follo…
A coalition of U.S. automakers, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, is urging Congress to ban Chinese vehicles and related software and hardware, citing consumer privacy and national security conc…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, claiming the model marks the beginning of the 'AGI era,' with OpenAI President Greg Brockman stating, 'It's not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI…
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel said in a September 2 CNBC interview that the biggest constraint on AI data center growth will be the power grid, specifically the time needed to prepare sites, not ch…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI adoption is 'non-negotiable' for countries, comparing rejection of it to refusing electricity a century ago, during a fireside chat with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lu…
New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said rising Treasury yields reflect a strong U.S. economy driven by investments in AI and data centers, not market dysfunction, with the 10-year yield …
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed Wednesday that the Trump administration is developing a framework to impose tariffs on semiconductors, saying 'if you build here, you don't pay, but if you …
John Ternus, Apple's new CEO, faces a September hardware event in eight days where he must answer whether the iPhone can remain central as AI agents become the primary interface, with the stock tradin…
Apple's next CEO must fix Siri to secure the company's AI future, according to Daniel Newman, CEO of Futurum Group, who told CNBC on August 31 that Apple's AI assistant has lagged rivals and that inco…
President Donald Trump warned in a Truth Social post on August 31, 2026, that U.S. communities blocking data centers will become 'backwards and poor,' as a Gallup survey found 71% of Americans oppose …
A 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model shipped in mid-July with performance close to the commercial frontier, and its full weights followed ten days later under a custom license, prompting Washing…
Amazon's HR lead, who last coded 25 years ago, has written over 100,000 lines of code using Amazon's AI-powered coding tool Kiro, according to an Amazon News blog post. The HR leader, who also announc…
Z.ai, the Chinese company formerly known as Zhipu AI, revealed on August 26, 2026, that its anonymous Ox Alpha model was GLM-5.3-Flash, an open-weight 320-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model pr…
Salesforce has revealed that the next battleground in AI is not the models themselves, according to a CNBC op-ed, as markets have vaporized roughly $2 trillion in software value over the past year by …
Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid told CNBC at Jackson Hole that inflation is 'still stubborn and it's still sticky,' with headline PCE at 3.7% and core PCE at 3.34% in July, both above the Fed's …
SK Hynix broke ground on a more than $4 billion advanced packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first U.S. production base for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips critical to AI systems. CEO…
Jim Cramer questioned Nvidia's roughly $30 billion investment in OpenAI ahead of Nvidia's second-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, August 26 at 4:20 PM ET, arguing that the capital is financing a …
Bank of America Securities semiconductor analyst Vivek Arya said on CNBC that Nvidia Corp. could generate $1 billion in free cash flow every weekday by this time next year, and that the stock is 30-50…