Pope Leo arrived in Spain on Saturday for a week-long visit, his first to an EU country outside Italy, where he will inaugurate a new tower in Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia basilica and meet migrants who braved dangerous Atlantic waters to reach Europe. The first American head of the Catholic Church is expected to draw … Read more
Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin said on Saturday that U.S. energy companies were the main beneficiaries of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and that Washington was trying to change the fundamental contours of the global energy markets to suit U.S. interests. Iran blockaded the Strait, the main route for about a fifth of … Read more
This photograph shows a set up smart-phone screen displaying the logo of main social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Telegram, X, Bluesky, Tiktok and Whatsapp. Martin Lelievre | Afp | Getty Images Government action to ban social media platforms risks strengthening Big Tech’s grip on the industry further, limiting access for smaller players, … Read more
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday warned that a combination of rising interest rates, elevated oil prices, and a wave of new stock offerings could continue to pressure the market in the week ahead. “You’re looking at a market that’s hostage to interest rates and high oil, coupled with a monster amount of new stock coming … Read more
AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said artificial intelligence is helping drugmakers develop medicines faster and make smarter decisions throughout the research process. “The value of AI in our industry is productivity improvement,” Soriot said on CNBC’s “Mad Money” on Friday. “In the way you design a new medicine, a new drug, you can actually do it … Read more
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on Sept. 6, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Marvell Technology, a chipmaker that makes several different parts and products needed for the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom, is joining the S&P 500 on June 22, becoming the latest semiconductor company to be added … Read more
Chief executive officer at Palo Alto Networks Inc., Nikesh Arora attends the 9th edition of the VivaTech trade show at the Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles on June 11, 2025, in Paris. Chesnot | Getty Images Anthropic‘s Mythos model offered a much-needed lifeline to cybersecurity firms in the age of artificial intelligence. … Read more
(L-R) Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as they arrive for the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Days before a planned IPO … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the White House are in ongoing talks about a possible government stake in the artificial intelligence company, CNBC confirmed on Friday. The discussions have been in progress for more than a year, as Altman first shared the idea with the Trump administration in 2025, according to a source familiar with … Read more
Options traders are storming into bets against crypto’s most vocal evangelist Michael Saylor. Call it mutiny on Strategy. Flows around Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) and the company’s variable-rate preferred stock STRC are turning bearish this week after traders had been more balanced in the preceding month despite a steady decline in bitcoin that began in mid-May. … Read more