Anthropic iPhone AI app, business plan to compete with OpenAI announced

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app. The generative artificial intelligence startup is the company behind Claude, one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google‘s Gemini, has exploded in popularity in the past year. Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI research executives, … Read more

Anthropic lining up a new slate of investors, ruled out Saudi Arabia

Deep-pocketed, sovereign wealth funds are among the investors clamoring to get a stake in Anthropic, the red-hot artificial intelligence startup that’s taking on OpenAI. One country that’s being left out: Saudi Arabia. As bankers line up a group of potential new Anthropic backers, the company has ruled out taking money from the Saudis, according to … Read more

Parker Harris prepared Salesforce for AI. Now he’s focused on Slack

Parker Harris, a co-founder of Salesforce, speaks during a keynote at the company’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Sept. 12, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Each year, Salesforce updates its V2MOM, a planning document laying out vision, values, methods, obstacles and measures. CEO Marc Benioff has said it’s “been used to … Read more

Cohere says rivals are building Bugatti sports cars, ‘We make F150s’

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Cohere President Martin Kon says a lot of the hot artificial intelligence startups on the market today are building the equivalent of fancy sports cars. His product, he says, is more like a heavy-duty truck. “If you’re looking for vehicles for your field technical service department, and I … Read more

Ford, Disney, Costco and more — Jim Cramer provides his updated views on each

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. (We’re no longer recording the audio, so we can get this new written feature to members as quickly as possible.) As we gear up for the … Read more

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hits 10-year anniversary

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during a keynote address announcing ChatGPT integration for Bing at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, Feb. 7, 2023. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images When Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO in February 2014, the software company was mired in mediocrity. Its market cap was just over $300 … Read more

Activist Elliott builds roughly 13% stake in Etsy, secures board seat

The Etsy Sellers Market in Times Square celebrating Etsy’s celebration of its initial public offering at Nasdaq in New York City on April 16, 2015. Paul Zimmerman |  Getty Images Activist investor Elliott Management has a “sizable” investment in e-commerce firm Etsy, which announced on Thursday that Elliott partner Marc Steinberg would join the company’s … Read more

Inside the secret parties of the elite world

Countries and companies rent out storefronts on the Promenade in Davos, Switzerland during the World Economic Forum CNBC DAVOS, Switzerland — For as long as countries and companies have rented out chalets and storefronts on the Promenade of the small Swiss ski village that hosts the World Economic Forum, ancillary programming hosted beyond the reaches … Read more

Tech layoffs jump in January as Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft reach high

L-R: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, and Sundar Picahi, CEO of Google. Reuters | Getty Images | Getty Images The S&P 500 is trading at a record and the Nasdaq is at its highest in two years. Alphabet shares reached a new pinnacle on Thursday, as did Meta and Microsoft, … Read more

Jamie Dimon says he’s done talking about bitcoin: ‘I don’t care’

DAVOS, Switzerland — Bitcoin does nothing, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum. “I call it the pet rock,” he added. Dimon is a long-time bitcoin critic. The bank chief said in 2021 at peak crypto valuations that bitcoin was “worthless,” and he doubled down on that sentiment last … Read more