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☆ OpenAI just secured a ton of new cash. Now it needs to wow us
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

One thing seems clear: The company is burning through far more cash than it’s bringing in, according to reporting from the New York Times. (That’s revenue largely from subscriptions to premium versions of ChatGPT and licensing its tech to third-party developers.) Here’s where things get a little wild:Next year, OpenAI estimates that its revenue will more than triple to $11.6 billion. It’s not clear how, or whether, OpenAI is working on reducing its significant cash burn. “It has nothing to do with reality.”One way OpenAI could improve its margins would be to cut costs.

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☆ Google is considering nuclear power to feed its energy-hungry AI data centers
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google could one day use nuclear energy to power its AI data centers. Competitors like Amazon and Microsoft are turning to nuclear energy to power their data centers too. AdvertisementIf Google CEO Sundar Pichai's hints on Thursday are any indicator, nuclear energy may one day power some of Google's energy-hungry AI data centers. To be sure, this isn't the first time Google has expressed interest in clean energy alternatives like nuclear energy. In March, Amazon inked a $650 million deal to buy electricity from the Susquehanna nuclear power station, per the Financial Times.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, —, Sundar Pichai's, Pichai, bZnGkp4RnQ Organizations: Google, Microsoft, Service, Nikkei Asia

☆ Microsoft tells customers it lost log data for key security products
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Microsoft told customers that a software bug caused inconsistent collection of log data. The bug affected key security products, including Microsoft Sentinel and Entra. Advertisement"This issue did not impact the uptime of any customer-facing services or resources -- it only affected the collection of log events. Microsoft Sentinel, a security information and event-management product, was also impacted, along with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Purview, a data loss prevention product. "Microsoft Sentinel customers may have experienced potential gaps in security related logs or events, possibly affecting customers' ability to analyze data, detect threats, or generate security alerts," the update warned.

Persons: —, Spokespeople Frank Shaw, Jill Austin, It's, Satya Nadella Organizations: Microsoft, Microsoft Sentinel, Service, Business, Microsoft Defender, Cloud, WE Communications, Futures Initiative, Department of Homeland Security, BI

☆ HSBC says buy this data center stock as AI drives growth
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

HSBC thinks Equinix could see strong growth ahead thanks to strong demand for artificial intelligence data centers. The company operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses primarily on data centers. Kanumuri upgraded the data center stock to buy from hold and raised his price target to $1,000 per share from $865. "However, we see this as a value-accretive opportunity for Equinix to accelerate growth and improve revenue per data center in 2025." Of the 27 covering Equinix, 21 rate it as a buy or a strong buy.

Persons: Equinix, Phani Kanumuri, Kanumuri Organizations: HSBC, Microsoft Locations: Equinix

☆ Looking to invest in the 'Magnificent Seven'? Dan Niles reveals the 2 he likes
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Amala Balakrishner | In Amala-Balakrishner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Hedge fund manager Dan Niles is particularly bullish on one tech stock going in to 2025. That stock is Meta Platforms — the tech giant behind social media platforms Facebook and Instagram as well as instant messaging app WhatsApp. META YTD mountain Year-to-date shares in Meta Platforms Meta is among the so-called "Magnificent Seven" stocks that several investors have been looking at favorably this year. Meta's "really the one that's using AI the best internally," Niles noted. 'Premium name' In addition to Meta, Niles is also keeping a watch on chipmaker Nvidia .

Persons: Dan Niles, Niles, CNBC's, Jensen Huang Organizations: Facebook, Niles Investment Management, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, U.S

☆ Meta, challenging OpenAI, announces new AI model that can generate video with sound
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Facebook owner Meta announced on Friday it had built a new AI model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips in response to user prompts, claiming it can rival tools from leading media generation startups like OpenAI and ElevenLabs. Movie Gen also can generate background music and sound effects synced to the content of the videos, Meta said in a blog post, and use the tool to edit existing videos. Videos created by Movie Gen can be up to 16 seconds long, while audio can be up to 45 seconds long, Meta said. They declined to comment on Meta's assessment for Movie Gen specifically. Lions Gate Entertainment , the company behind "The Hunger Games" and "Twilight," announced in September that it was giving AI startup Runway access to its film and television library to train an AI model.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Gen, Meta spokespeople, OpenAI, Sora, Scarlett Johansson Organizations: Meta, Facebook, Microsoft, Technologists, Hollywood, Lions Gate Entertainment Locations: Menlo Park , California, U.S, Kling, Hollywood, Pakistan, India, Indonesia

☆ Harris' Uber executive brother-in-law says he won't join her cabinet. Other business leaders still have a shot.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tony West, Harris' brother-in-law and an Uber executive, doesn't plan on serving in her cabinet. Other private sector stars are in the running for key positions like Treasury secretary. Tony West, Harris' brother-in-law and a top executive at Uber, has been instrumental in cementing the vice president's relationship with corporate America. Sources told Semafor he's a leading candidate for Treasury secretary, among other positions. Related storiesBut Chenault isn't a shoo-in — leaders on and off Wall Street are also jockeying for the coveted position.

Persons: Tony West, Harris, —, Kamala Harris, Uber, Ken Chenault, Chenault, Semafor he's, Berkshire Hathaway, Wally Adeyemo, Gina Raimondo, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, Blair Effron, Charles Phillips, Brad Smith, Lina Khan, Gary Gensler, Mark Cuban Organizations: Service, White, Uber, America, Wall Street Journal, Former American Express, Democratic, Democratic National Convention, American Express, Facebook, IBM, Procter, Gamble, Treasury, Commerce, JPMorgan, CNBC, Microsoft, Federal Trade Commission, Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC Locations: Airbnb, Berkshire

☆ Microsoft will be an early driver of AI agents, says Melius' Ben Reitzes
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMicrosoft will be an early driver of AI agents, says Melius' Ben ReitzesBen Reitzes, Melius Research head of technology research, joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to discuss tech, the next wave of AI and his outlook on the semiconductor sector.

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The FBI and Microsoft have seized more than 100 web domains they say Russian intelligence used for cyber-espionage, according to court documents unsealed Thursday. The domains were allegedly staging grounds for Russia’s FSB intelligence agency in its ongoing efforts to spy on targets of interest, ranging from the U.S. Department of Energy to Russian nonprofits and media outlets critical of the Kremlin. The Justice Department seized 41 of the web domains, according to the FBI affidavit, and also granted Microsoft control of 66 additional domains the company said were part of the same operation. Intelligence agencies with even moderate cyber capabilities routinely hack foreign targets to gather intelligence. Many of the web domains allegedly used by the FSB were hosted by Virginia-based company Verisign, the court documents said.

Persons: Hillary Clinton’s, Steven Masada, ” Masada, Natalia Krapiva, ” Organizations: FBI, Microsoft, U.S . Department of Energy, Kremlin, Justice Department, United, Russia’s Ministry, Foreign Affairs, NBC News, Microsoft’s Digital, Unit, The Locations: States, United States, Russian, U.S, British, Virginia

☆ Justice Department and Microsoft disrupt Russian hacking operations aimed at US officials and civil society
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Washington CNN —The Justice Department and Microsoft on Thursday announced the seizure of more than 100 web domains that a Russian intelligence agency allegedly used to try to hack current and former US officials, civil-society groups and Russians living in the US. It’s the latest in a series of moves from the Justice Department to expose alleged covert Russian operations targeting US democracy in the runup to the 2024 presidential election. The UK government last year accused the same Russian hacking group of conducting a “sustained unsuccessful attempts to interfere in UK political processes” over several years that hacked politicians, civil servants and journalists. The hackers operate on behalf of Russia’s FSB intelligence agency, the prime successor to the Soviet-era KGB, according to US officials. Another FSB-linked hacking group has posed a direct threat to US critical infrastructure by targeting energy facilities, according to US officials.

Persons: Steven Masada, “, ”, John Scott, Natalia Krapiva Organizations: Washington CNN, The Justice Department, Microsoft, Justice Department, CNN, FSB, University of Toronto’s, Russian Embassy Locations: Russian, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Eastern Europe, United States, Washington ,

☆ Elon Musk's xAI has moved into OpenAI's old HQ: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's xAI has moved into OpenAI's founding HQ. Musk subsequently left OpenAI and has become increasingly critical of the company, founding rival startup xAI last year. AdvertisementElon Musk is racing to upstage OpenAI — and now the billionaire has moved his own AI startup into the company's old HQ. Musk's AI startup xAI has taken over OpenAI's original office in San Francisco's Mission district, according to a report from the San Francisco Business Times. It comes amid an escalating war of words between the Tesla CEO and the AI startup he helped found in 2015.

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☆ OpenAI gets $4 billion revolving credit line, giving it more than $10 billion in liquidity
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI has a $4 billion revolving line of credit, bringing its total liquidity to more than $10 billion, CNBC has learned. The base credit line is $4 billion, with an option to increase it by an additional $2 billion. Led by Thrive Capital, which planned to invest $1 billion, investors included existing backer Microsoft as well as chipmaker Nvidia. SoftBank, Khosla Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, MGX and Tiger Global also participated, according to sources familiar with the situation. Earlier this year, OpenAI was valued at a reported $80 billion, up from $29 billion in 2023.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Mira Murati, Bob McGrew, Barret Zoph, Altman, Bret Taylor, Sam, Taylor Organizations: CNBC, JPMorgan Chase, Citi, UBS, HSBC, Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, Khosla Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Tiger Global, The New York Times Locations: Santander, Wells Fargo, SMBC

☆ Elon Musk called OpenAI 'evil' for telling investors not to fund his company and other rivals
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI just secured $6.6 billion in its latest funding round. The company asked investors not to back its rivals like Elon Musk's xAI, per Reuters. Musk, who is in an ongoing feud with OpenAI, called the company "evil." That funding round, which included big-name investors like Thrive Capital, Microsoft, and Nvidia, had a stipulation that Musk isn't so happy with: Don't support OpenAI's rivals. Some of OpenAI's investors have already backed other AI startups.

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☆ Amazon's RTO push is an outlier — the tech world remains all-in on hybrid work
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Despite return-to-office mandates at Amazon and Dell, the tech world still appears to favor hybrid work. Experts say hybrid work boosts recruitment and retention and could be crucial amid tech talent wars. But while it may seem like workers are losing the battle for remote work, research suggests that hybrid work is still the norm in the tech industry. While some large companies, such as Nvidia, have remained holdouts, most Big Tech companies have had hybrid policies of various degrees. So as long as productivity stays up, I think hybrid work is here to stay in the tech world."

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☆ OpenAI's latest funding round could be a bargain or a bust for investors
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The high-profile startup announced the closing of a $6.6 billion funding round that valued it at $157 billion. And more exits could be coming since OpenAI is reportedly working on allowing its employees to sell their shares in the company . Win McNamee and Didem Mente/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/InsiderIt's important to remember OpenAI's eye-popping valuation is just that … a valuation. Which gets us back to $157 billion OpenAI.

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☆ Microsoft AI boss likens OpenAI partnership to a sibling rivalry
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But Microsoft is also reportedly building its own in-house AI model that could compete with OpenAI's. Microsoft is now developing its own in-house AI model, reportedly dubbed MAI-1, and OpenAI has launched GPT-4o and o1-preview. The two were briefly announced to "lead a new advanced AI research team," a group now known as Microsoft AI. Suleyman said the ties between Microsoft and OpenAI aren't unique, but rather similar to other company relationships across the industry. "I mean, we have a deep relationship with Amazon, believe it or not, on a lot of fronts."

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, —, Kara Swisher, Suleyman, OpenAI, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Altman, Brockman, Karén Simonyan Organizations: Microsoft, Service, OpenAI Locations: OpenAI

☆ AI coding tools mean there are no more junior software developers
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot have transformed software development and productivity. AdvertisementBefore he graduated from university, Jacob Jackson founded the AI coding assistant TabNine in 2018. In the past two years, there has been a boom in AI coding assistants. The spike in ChatGPT usage and AI coding assistants has shifted how software developers do their jobs. AdvertisementAI assistants can empower codersMost generative AI coding assistants focus on auto-completion, meaning that the tool suggests code as the programmer types.

Persons: —, Jacob Jackson, TabNine, Jackson, Claude, Nikolas Gauvreau, Dan Boneh, Kevin Baragona, Baragona, Gauvreau, he's, David Malan, Malan Organizations: Software, Service, Microsoft, Accenture, Developers, Stanford University, Harvard University, Activision Blizzard Locations: OpenAI, Canada, Brazil, Germany, India

☆ CNBC's Inside India newsletter: The 'sticky' outsourcing firms on the rise
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Ganesh Rao | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

This report is from this week's CNBC's "Inside India" newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse and the big businesses behind its meteoric rise. Over the years, the services sector of the Indian economy has grown to account for 45% of total exports, up from 30% a decade ago. The Indian government, meanwhile, has been eager to support the manufacturing sector in creating mass employment, a key economic and political challenge that the services sector alone hasn't been able to address. These companies also boast moats that make them unique compared to the large BPO firms of the last three decades. Perhaps it could also address some of the risks to employment created in the BPO sector from artificial intelligence.

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☆ Everyone wants to know what AI is worth. One investor looked to the past for the $20 trillion answer.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Miller's team compared AI's growth with past tech waves, finding consistent growth rates. In fact, the generative-AI wave looks a lot more like past tech waves than its revolutionary capabilities would suggest. That "rule of three" theory puts the value of the AI wave at about $20 trillion. Miller likened the AI wave to the mobile wave in about 2009, when there were few applications for the iPhone. "So the question is if compute is the primary underlying driver of economic activity, economic growth, economic opportunity, then there's an argument that it's actually bigger."

Persons: Ben Miller, Miller, Nvidia wouldn't, —, Jensen Huang, Everybody's, Anthropic's Claude, Fundrise, shortsighted, it's, We'll, they're Organizations: Nvidia, Service, Cisco, Intel, Business, Adobe, AMD, Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg, IDC

☆ Nvidia bucks the market, and oil jumps on fears of how Israel may respond to Iran's missile attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Matthew J. Belvedere | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Markets: U.S. stocks were lower Thursday as Wall Street extends Tuesday's sharp selloff, which was triggered by concern over Iran's missile attacks on Israel. Wall Street will be parsing the government's jobs numbers for their implications on future Fed interest rate cuts. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB.

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☆ OpenAI has secured a $157 billion valuation. Now comes the hard part.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

OpenAI is now worth $157 billion, but it can't rest easy yet. Now comes the hard part: emerging victorious in a fiercely competitive AI industry. Though Sam Altman's company cemented its status as a frontrunner in the generative AI boom this week, securing a new $157 billion valuation after raising $6.6 billion of fresh capital from marquee investors, its leading position is hardly guaranteed. Sure, Altman's company now casts a massive shadow over the industry with its fresh $157 billion valuation. AI companies have been spending huge sums to purchase chips from Jensen Huang's Nvidia.

Persons: OpenAI, —, Sam Altman's, Sam Altman, Andrew Caballero, Reynolds, Altman, Elon Musk's, Ilya Sutskever, Nathan Benaich, Dario Amodei, Jensen, Jeff Chiu, Benaich, it's, VCs Organizations: Service, Valley's, Financial, Nvidia, SoftBank, Microsoft, Elon, Air Street Capital, The New York Times, Google, Big Tech, Meta Locations: Silicon Valley, AFP

☆ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says demand for next-generation Blackwell AI chip is 'insane'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Cj Haddad | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an interview with CNBC's "Closing Bell Overtime" that demand for the company's next-generation artificial intelligence chip Blackwell is "insane." "Everybody wants to have the most and everybody wants to be first," Huang said during the interview, which aired on Wednesday. Nvidia has been the main beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom, with shares up about 150% year-to-date. The company's revenue continued to surge during the fiscal second quarter to $30.04 billion, up 122% on an annual basis. Jensen said Nvidia plans to update its AI platform each year to increase performance by two to three times.

Persons: Jensen Huang, CNBC's, Blackwell, Huang, Colette Kress, Jensen Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, CNBC Locations: Blackwell

☆ OpenAI closes funding at $157 billion valuation, as Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank join round
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Microsoft Build conference at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on May 21, 2024. OpenAI has closed its long-awaited funding round at a valuation of $157 billion, including the $6.6 billion the company raised from an extensive roster of investment firms and big tech companies. Thrive planned to invest $1 billion in the round, CNBC previously reported. Earlier this year, OpenAI was valued at a reported $80 billion, up from $29 billion in 2023. There are also 11 million ChatGPT Plus subscribers and 1 million paying business users on ChatGPT, a person close to the company said.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, SoftBank, Sarah Friar, Friar, Mira Murati, Bob McGrew, Barret Zoph, Altman, Bret Taylor, Sam, Taylor Organizations: Microsoft, Nvidia, CNBC, New York Times, OpenAI, Italian Tech, Khosla Ventures, Fidelity, MGX, Tiger Global Locations: Redmond , Washington

☆ Nvidia makes a move to take AI mainstream — plus, a positive call on Home Depot
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a "Morning Meeting" livestream at 10:20 a.m. Gordon Haskett took the Club stock to buy and raised its price target to $450 per share, implying 10% upside. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB.

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☆ Cathie Wood's Ark is doubling down on OpenAI with at least $250 million in its new funding round
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Melia Russell | Ben Bergman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Cathie Wood's Ark Venture Fund invested at least $250 million in this new round. OpenAI is now Ark Venture Fund's third-largest holding, accounting for about 5% of its total assets. AdvertisementCathie Wood's Ark Venture Fund has agreed to invest at least $250 million in OpenAI's latest funding round, three people familiar with the round said. OpenAI is now Ark Venture Fund's third-largest holding, accounting for about 5% of the fund's total assets, according to its website. On Wednesday, a retail investor shared a screenshot of what appears to be an email she received from Ark Venture Fund informing her of its new OpenAI investment.

Persons: OpenAI, —, Ark, Musk Organizations: Ark Venture Fund, Ark Venture, Service, Microsoft, Tiger Global, Nvidia, Khosla Ventures, United, United Arab Emirates Locations: Abu Dhabi, United Arab, xAI

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