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Amazon lets some users chat with Alexa+ on the web in bid to take on ChatGPT
The company launched Alexa+ last February and it remains in early access.
AI godfather says Meta’s new 29-year-old AI boss is ‘inexperienced’ and warns of staff exodus
"A lot of people have left, a lot of people who haven't yet left will leave," Meta's former chief AI scientist Yann Lecun said.
The latest on Venezuela, Tesla's second-place finish, inside Chick-fil-A's marketing blitz and more in Morning Squawk
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
Nvidia partner Foxconn reports 22% revenue surge as AI buildout ramps up
The Taiwanese company, also known as Hon Hai, has said it hit revenues of NT$2.6 trillion ($83 billion) in the final quarter of 2025
Elon Musk's Starlink offers free internet access in Venezuela following U.S. airstrikes and Maduro’s arrest
SpaceX's Starlink is offering free broadband internet service to the people of Venezuela through Feb. 3, amid the fallout of a U.S. military operation in the country.
CNBC Daily Open: A banner year for markets in 2025
The S&P 500 rallied 16.39% in 2025, mostly on the back of enthusiasm over AI, though some pockets of the sector weakened as the year drew to a close.
Week in review: We initiated a position — plus, top gainers and laggards of 2025
Friday marked the end of a lackluster week for stocks and the first trading session of the new year.
Anthropic's 'do more with less' bet has kept it at the AI frontier, co-founder Amodei tells CNBC
Daniela Amodei and her brother, Dario Amodei, who is Anthropic's CEO, helped build the very worldview they're now betting against.
Musk's Grok AI bot says it's fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
Ilya Lichtenstein, Bitcoin hacker behind massive crypto theft, credits Trump for early prison release
Ilya Lichtenstein had been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty and admitting to the hack of crypto assets valued in the billions of dollars.
Tesla reports 418,227 deliveries for the fourth quarter, down 16%
Tesla's fourth-quarter deliveries report follows a steep rally in the company's stock in the last few months of 2025.
Chip stocks rally to start 2026 after third-straight winning year
Investors piled into the winning artificial intelligence-adjacent sector following another big year of gains.
China’s BYD overtakes Tesla as world’s top EV seller for the first time
The milestone caps an extraordinary rise for BYD, a company Tesla's Elon Musk once dismissed by laughing at their products.
Buffett hands over the reins, the stock market's losing streak, airline class wars and more in Morning Squawk
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
China’s ‘Silicon Valley’ is building robots and fortune-telling AI apps at the same time
Hangzhou’s AI ecosystem now spans everything from cutting-edge robotics to experimental apps built by solo founders.
Baidu’s semiconductor unit Kunlunxin files for Hong Kong listing amid AI chip boom in China
Baidu has announced plans to spin off its artificial intelligence chip subsidiary, Kunlunxin, and list the new firm on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Bernie Sanders and Ron DeSantis speak out against data center boom. It's a bad sign for AI industry
Sen. Bernie Sanders has called for a data center moratoriu, while Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed back on the AI industry in Florida.
Dust to data centers: The year AI tech giants, and billions in debt, began remaking the American landscape
Big Tech is remaking the U.S. map into an AI empire — kingdom-scale data centers, unprecedented debt, power constraints, and a near-religious belief in scaling.
Google wraps up best year on Wall Street since 2009, beating megacap peers as AI story strengthens
Shares of Alphabet rallied in 2025 as the company responded to skepticism of its position in artificial intelligence with new products that excited investors.
'Big Short' investor Michael Burry says he's not shorting Tesla
In a social media post on X, the Scion Asset Management founder responded to a user asking if he would bet against Tesla by saying: "I am not short."
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