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- AMD acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs AI firm in deal worth $8.2 billion
AMD previously invested in World Labs before the acquisition, which is the chipmaker's second biggest on record.
- Jim Cramer says these stocks can win even as oil and bond yields squeeze the market
Here's the stocks Jim Cramer said will be less impacted by interest rates and the Iran war.
- SpaceX’s next big growth engine isn’t rockets — it’s this play on AI power, analysts say
The company has a lucrative opportunity in letting rivals tap its data centers for computing power.
- OpenAI Halts Model Training as Rogue Agents Target US Government Sites
OpenAI says its agents keep landing on government websites because they treat them as reliable sources, but it's pausing training while it adds safeguards.
- Khanna to introduce AI safety bill with ban on 'recursive' technology until safeguards exist
The proposal joins a chorus of other measures being put forward in Congress as the body mulls how to regulate AI.
- Nvidia makes a statement with historic $150 billion buyback announcement
The company intends to repurchase a large amount of shares through January 2028, reflecting its “confidence in the long-term opportunity ahead.”
- MongoDB’s stock is down nearly 20% as CEO decamps to Meta
Meta is creating an enterprise platform business that aims to make it easier for developers to use its products. CJ Desai, formerly of MongoDB, will head up the initiative.
- This AI startup has only 14 employees — and a fresh $10 billion valuation
Instinct is rapidly amassing investment dollars, illustrating the rush of excitement around personal AI assistants.
- A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here's What It Means for Crypto
A UC San Diego-led team impersonated a hardware security module without extracting its key.
- Elon Musk, SpaceXAI subpoenaed by NYC in AI safety investigation
The New York City Council issued a subpoena to Musk, requiring that he or another representative of SpaceXAI testify in an investigation concerning AI safety.
- Michael Burry believes the AI bubble 'may burst' sooner than he first believed
The famed short seller is switching to puts with expiries in June for his major tech short bets.
- OpenAI sparked Hugging Face bids with early investment offer ahead of Nvidia's $13 billion deal
Hugging Face saw a flurry of deal interest before Nvidia agreed to buy the open-source platform for roughly $13 billion, CNBC has learned.
- Boeing 737 Max 10 certification delayed by software issue, FAA says
The FAA administrator said the Max 10 will be delayed until the agency can assess a software issue on the aircraft.
- Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price
Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.
- Meta's splashy new business AI hire offers yet another reason to bank on Zuckerberg
By poaching MongoDB's CJ Desai, Mark Zuckerberg shows he's serious about building an enterprise AI business.
- Zuckerberg, Amodei among tech executives set to meet Trump Tuesday
The AI safety debate has raged in recent weeks, with Amodei, Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calling to pace the development of frontier models.
- After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI agent quietly accessed Australia's Medicare data and nobody said a word for months.
- Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out
OpenShell and Sentry give AI agents a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agents breaching a government site, hacking their own tests, and going rogue during a security evaluation.
- Anthropic launches cheaper AI model, its second release since CEO's call for a slowdown
The company said Sonnet 5.5 doesn't advance the frontier, but that it is better at coding and knowledge work tasks than its predecessor.
- Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks
Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 lets banks run their own security checks on cross-chain transfers, five months after a rival's setup lost $292 million to hackers.