Economy

In this photo illustration, the OpenAI logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen with a photo of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. Didem Mente | Anadolu | Getty Images OpenAI estimates that ChatGPT rejected more than 250,000 requests to generate images of the 2024 U.S. presidential candidates in the lead up to Election Day […]

Dutch Bros. CEO Christine Barone described the coffee chain’s cross-country expansion plans in a Friday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramersaying it may be some time before the Oregon-based company opens stores in the Northeast region. “We’re really growing in a contiguous way, so that we’re growing across states that are next to each other,” Barone […]

A Major League Baseball logo at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, May 22, 2022. Ronald Martinez | Getty Images Major League Baseball and the Atlanta Braves have raised issues with the reorganization plan and future viability of Diamond Sports Group, the country’s largest owner of regional sports networks, according to a Friday bankruptcy court filing. […]

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter Inc., speaks during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images During the crypto-crazed summer of 2021, when memecoins such as dogecoin and Shiba Inu were rocketing alongside bitcoin and ethereum, Square founder Jack Dorsey announced that […]

European shares edged lower on Wednesday morning, even as defense equities gained a boost from U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest comments on the conflict in Ukraine. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was down 0.2% by 11:21 a.m. in London 6:21 a.m. ET), with most sectors trading in the red. Defense stocks bucked the trend, with the […]

Alibaba shares soared in Hong Kong and U.S. premarket trading on Wednesday after the company said it will invest more in artificial intelligence and rolled out new AI products and updates. The tech giant’s Hong Kong-listed shares jumped over 6%, to reach their highest point since 2021. Total gains over the year-to-date topped 107%. In […]

This report is from this week’s CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter, which brings you insights and analysis on what’s driving the world’s second-largest economy. You can subscribe here. The big story Many in business circles were hoping for a sweeping U.S.-China trade deal, but an agreement now looks even more elusive. The fate of TikTok […]

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images ABILENE, Texas — Sam Altman stood on a patch of hot Texas dirt, the kind that turns to dust storms on […]

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” returned to air with an emotional monologue Tuesday night, roughly one week after the late night show was suspended by Disney’s ABC broadcast network. The program was initially pulled “indefinitely” following comments by host Kimmel during a show monologue that criticized members of President Donald Trump’sMAGA movement for their reaction to conservative […]