OpenAI’s Sam Altman denies sexual abuse allegations made sister, Ann

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 CEO Sam Altman’s sister, Ann Altman, filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that her brother sexually abused her regularly between the years of 1997 and 2006. The … Read more

Tencent shares fall 7% in Hong Kong after U.S. designates it a Chinese military company

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of Chinese tech heavyweight Tencent Holdings tumbled 7% in Hong Kong after the company was added to a list of “Chinese military companies” by the U.S. Department of Defense. The move follows a near 8% fall in Tencent‘s U.S. depository receipts on Wall Street. Other Chinese companies … Read more

How five top CEOs described the AI boom in 2024

Throughout 2024, CNBC’s Jim Cramer discussed the seemingly boundless rise of artificial intelligence with dozens of CEOs across the tech world. Here is how five top enterprise leaders characterized AI’s meteoric rise this year. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the “AI computing ramp” is only beginning and will last years. Huang in March painted a … Read more

Larry Ellison has banner year as Oracle gains most since dot-com boom

Larry Ellison and Monica Seles and Bill Gates (back row) watch Carlos Alcaraz of Spain play against Alexander Zverev of Germany in their Quarterfinal match during the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, on March 14, 2024. Clive Brunskill | Getty Images It’s been a good year for Larry Ellison. Oracle’s co-founder has gained … Read more

Markets begin last trading week with holiday cheer

A television station broadcasts Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up … Read more

Bitcoin falls 5% in volatile trade around $97,000

Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images Bitcoin fell sharply on Friday amid broader investor caution toward risk assets. Bitcoin dipped below the $93,000 mark earlier in the day before trading above that price in volatile trade. The digital asset was last trading at $97,491.71, according to Coin Metrics, down around 5% from 24 … Read more

Tesla shares drop 5%, continuing to slide as post-election rally loses steam

Tesla electric vehicles are parked in a parking lot at the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg plant.  Patrick Pleul | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Shares of Tesla continued to slide on Friday, in what appeared to be a case of investors taking profits from the electric car maker’s blistering post-U.S. election rally. As of around 6:30 … Read more

OpenAI emails show Elon Musk wanted for-profit structure in 2017

The logo of OpenAI is shown on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying the photographs of Sam Altman, left, and Elon Musk, March 14, 2024. Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images OpenAI on Friday clapped back against Elon Musk, one of its co-founders, after the billionaire asked a federal … Read more

Trump rings bell at NYSE to cheers of ‘USA’ as Wall Street CEOs, business leaders look on

President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after vowing an economic boom to a cheering crowd of traders and business leaders. “We’re with you all the way,” the incoming Republican president said in the NYSE building in lower Manhattan, where he was invited after becoming TIME’s “Person … Read more

Rally in small caps just starting: VettaFi’s Rosenbluth suggests

Small caps just had their first historic week in three years, and one exchange-traded fund expert predicts the group’s record highs will help drive investors back into the group. “Small caps are going to become more in favor in 2025,” VettaFi’s Todd Rosenbluth said on CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “They started to perk up … Read more