Nvidia wants to power robotaxi fleets with chips, software by 2027

Nvidia wants to power robotaxi fleets with chips, software by 2027

Nvidia is building out an automotive tech business. Pictured here are its autonomous vehicle test cars at the company’s auto garage in Santa Clara, California, June 5, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia on Monday said it is working with robotaxi operators in hopes of having them use the company’s AI chips and … Read more

Baidu’s semiconductor unit Kunlunxin files for Hong Kong listing amid AI chip boom in China

Baidu’s semiconductor unit Kunlunxin files for Hong Kong listing amid AI chip boom in China

A general view of the Baidu logo is seen at the Shanghai New Expo Center during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025 in Shanghai, China, on July 28, 2025. Ying Tang | Nurphoto | Getty Images Chinese tech giant Baidu plans to spin off its artificial intelligence chip subsidiary, Kunlunxin, and list it in Hong … Read more

Retail investors close out one of their best years ever. How they beat Wall Street at its own game

Retail investors close out one of their best years ever. How they beat Wall Street at its own game

A graph displaying the Apple stock price on a smartphone app. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Retail investors have had a gangbuster year in 2025. Mom-and-pop investors bought the dip at key points this year, providing strong returns as the market climbed to all-time highs. Once thought of as unsophisticated and easily duped, … Read more

Google wraps up best year on Wall Street since 2009, beating megacap peers as AI story strengthens

Google wraps up best year on Wall Street since 2009, beating megacap peers as AI story strengthens

Google CEO Sundar Pichai waves as he arrives at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, Feb. 11, 2025. Benoit Tessier | Reuters After a tough start to the year, Google closed out 2025 with its strongest performance — from Wall Street’s perspective — since 2009, when the company’s shares doubled … Read more

How $160 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia chips were allegedly smuggled into China

How 0 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia chips were allegedly smuggled into China

On Dec. 8, Federal prosecutors in Texas unsealed documents that revealed an investigation into a massive smuggling network that stretched across the U.S. and the world. Dubbed “Operation Gatekeeper” by the feds, the investigation wasn’t focused on drug smuggling or stolen goods but rather an alleged secret, underground network of suppliers for Nvidia‘s graphic processing … Read more

Stock futures climb marginally after S&P 500 posts back-to-back losses: Live updates

Stock futures climb marginally after S&P 500 posts back-to-back losses: Live updates

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Dec. 29, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stock futures were relatively unchanged Tuesday, after the S&P 500 posted back-to-back losses amid mounting pressure across the tech sector. S&P 500 futures were virtually flat, while futures tied to the … Read more

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: DigitalBridge, Praxis Precision Medicines, Coupang & more

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: DigitalBridge, Praxis Precision Medicines, Coupang & more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: DigitalBridge — The private equity firm that invests in data centers and other assets surged more than 32% after Bloomberg News, citing unnamed sources, said Japan’s SoftBank is in advanced talks to acquire DigitalBridge. The deal could be announced as soon as Monday, Bloomberg reported. Nvidia … Read more

From data center spas to servers in space: How the energy crunch is reshaping cloud computing

From data center spas to servers in space: How the energy crunch is reshaping cloud computing

Lenovo in partnership with AKT II and Mamou-Mani imagines the data centers of the future: a data center spa James Cheung, partner at Mamou-Mani Artificial intelligence is advancing at breakneck speed, forcing a rethink of how the power-hungry servers behind the boom can coexist with — and draw less from — the environment. Data centers … Read more

Morgan Stanley says these are top stock picks in 2026, including Nvidia

Morgan Stanley says these are top stock picks in 2026, including Nvidia

Morgan Stanley named several stocks that are best positioned going in to 2026. The Wall Street investment bank said companies such as Nvidia are its top ideas for next year. Other overweight-rated names screened by CNBC Pro include: Western Digital, Spotify and Palo Alto Networks. Spotify Spotify is firing on all cylinders, Morgan Stanley said. … Read more

One year on from the UK’s grand AI plan: has its infrastructure buildout been a success?

One year on from the UK’s grand AI plan: has its infrastructure buildout been a success?

QTS’s data center in Cambois, North East of England When the U.K. announced its AI Opportunities Action Plan — a grand blueprint to deploy the tech across society — in January, Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared the strategy would make the country an “AI superpower.”  One of the key pillars of this plan was a … Read more