U.S. greenlights AI chip exports to Gulf tech giants after Saudi Crown Prince’s Washington visit

U.S. greenlights AI chip exports to Gulf tech giants after Saudi Crown Prince’s Washington visit

U.S. President Donald Trump and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia stand for a photo with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and other participants at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center on Nov. 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images The U.S. … Read more

Feds charge 4 in plot to export restricted Nvidia chips to China, Hong Kong

Feds charge 4 in plot to export restricted Nvidia chips to China, Hong Kong

Four men have been indicted on federal criminal charges related to a plot to export Nvidia chips worth millions of dollars to China and Hong Kong in violation of tight U.S. restrictions, court documents show. The chips are highly restricted from exports because of their use in artificial intelligence and supercomputing applications, according to the … Read more

Nvidia earnings takeaways: Bubble talk, ‘half a trillion’ forecast and China orders

Nvidia earnings takeaways: Bubble talk, ‘half a trillion’ forecast and China orders

Nvidia on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat expectations, and provided a strong forecast for the current quarter. Wall Street welcomed the report, and Nvidia stock rose after the release and during the conference call. Other stocks in the so-called artificial intelligence trade also saw a boost. A closer look at Nvidia’s report shows … Read more

Nvidia stock pops 5% in premarket trading after stronger-than-expected results

Nvidia stock pops 5% in premarket trading after stronger-than-expected results

Shares in AI darling Nvidia popped in premarket trade after the U.S. firm beat expectations in third-quarter results after the closing bell on Wednesday. Shares were last trading 5.5% higher at 4:15 a.m. ET. Nvidia topped forecasts for revenue, which jumped 62% to $57.01 billion year-on-year, and issued stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter sales guidance. “There’s been a … Read more

‘Robotaxi has reached a tipping point’: Baidu, Nvidia leaders see momentum as competition rises

‘Robotaxi has reached a tipping point’: Baidu, Nvidia leaders see momentum as competition rises

Chinese tech company Baidu announced Monday it can sell some robotaxi rides without any human staff in the vehicles. Baidu BEIJING — Chinese robotaxi companies are expanding abroad at a faster clip than U.S. rivals Waymo and Tesla — at a time when industry leaders say autonomous driving is finally near an inflection point. “I … Read more

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, has a Q&A session at a press conference during the APEC CEO summit on October 31, 2025 in Gyeongju, South Korea. Woohae Cho | Getty Images News | Getty Images Nvidia reported fiscal third-quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street expectations on Wednesday and provided stronger-than-expected sales guidance for the … Read more

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup

Yann LeCun, known as one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and one of the first AI visionaries to join the company then known as Facebook, is leaving Meta. LuCun said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday that he plans to create a startup that specializes in a kind of AI technology that researchers … Read more

More Efficient Way to Defrost Cars Using Electricity to “Zap” Ice Without Heat

More Efficient Way to Defrost Cars Using Electricity to “Zap” Ice Without Heat

Associate Professor Jonathan Boreyko – credit, Alex Parrish / Virginia Tech / SWNS There are large swaths of America where in order to have a safe drive into work, one has to start their car even before their coffee machine. Heating up a car and running the defrosters is a hugely energy intensive process, but … Read more

Mountain Goat-Inspired Robot Offers a New World of Mobility to the Wheelchair-Bound–WATCH

Mountain Goat-Inspired Robot Offers a New World of Mobility to the Wheelchair-Bound–WATCH

Toyota – released Toyota recently unveiled a four-legged mobility robot that can go where wheels cannot, and specializes in tasks that are difficult in a wheelchair such as climbing up stairs and positioning passengers to get into cars. Debuted by the carmaker at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show, it consists of an ergonomic seat mounted … Read more

CNBC Daily Open: The flow of money in AI appears one-way at this point

CNBC Daily Open: The flow of money in AI appears one-way at this point

The Anthropic website on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Money keeps flowing into artificial intelligence companies but out of AI stocks. In what looks like — once again — a scenario of the left hand scratching the right, Microsoft and Nvidia will be investing a combined $15 billion into … Read more