Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images A 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher, Suchir Balaji, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment in recent weeks, CNBC has confirmed. Balaji left OpenAI earlier this year and raised concerns publicly that the…
Broadcom stock jumps 21%, pushing company past $1 trillion market cap for the first time
A sign is posted in front of a Broadcom office on December 12, 2024 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Shares of Broadcom popped more than 21% Friday morning, pushing the company’s market cap beyond $1 trillion…
Broadcom (AVGO) earnings report Q4 2024
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Broadcom reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday and said artificial intelligence revenue for the year more than tripled. The chipmaker’s stock ticked higher in extended trading. Here’s how Broadcom did versus LSEG…
Adobe shares plunge 13% on disappointing 2025 revenue guidance
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 20, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Adobe shares fell 13% on Thursday and headed for their steepest drop since…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT suffers outage, and says it’s working on a fix
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits “Making Money With Charles Payne” at Fox Business Network Studios in New York on Dec. 4, 2024. Mike Coppola | Getty Images OpenAI said Wednesday it was working to fix an outage after its popular…
ServiceTitan prices at $71, above expected range
Vahe Kuzoyan, left, and Ara Mahdessian, the founders of ServiceTitan. ServiceTitan ServiceTitan, a provider of cloud software to contractors, priced its IPO at $71 a share on Wednesday, above the expected range. The company is set to debut on the…
Alphabet and Tesla reach fresh records, joining Amazon and Meta
Tech stocks on display at the Nasdaq. Peter Kramer | CNBC Alphabet and Tesla climbed to fresh records on Wednesday, closing at all-time highs alongside Amazon and Meta as the tech megacaps lifted the Nasdaq past 20,000 for the first…
Meta’s Facebook, Instagram go down due to ‘technical issue’
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta’s family of apps including Facebook and Instagram…
Cryptocurrencies rally, with bitcoin retaking $100,000 following November inflation data
The crypto market jumped Wednesday, following two days of digestion after bitcoin rallied to the $100,000 for the first time ever last week. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 4.8% at $101,052.72, according to Coin Metrics….
Google releases the first of its Gemini 2.0 AI models
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google released the first version of its Gemini 2.0 family of artificial intelligence models on Wednesday. Gemini 2.0 Flash, as the model is called, is available in a chat version for users globally…