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Oil fell Wednesday, as an unexpected increase in U.S. crude inventories outweighed worries over supply disruptions after an Iran-backed attack on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline.

Z.ai, Moonshot, MiniMax, Alibaba and Tencent did not provide any statements when contacted by CNBC about the warnings on AI from Silicon Valley.

Grab is betting $1.49 billion on Atome Financial as it looks to expand its consumer lending business in Southeast Asia.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's view of artificial intelligence safety is akin to the perspective of Nvidia's Jensen Huang rather than Anthropic chief Dario Amodei.

Nazara, sworn in hours after Purbaya's dismissal, spent seven years as deputy finance minister and led the ministry's fiscal policy agency from 2015 to 2019.

The BOJ is expected to hike rates by 25 basis points to a fresh three-decade high, a CNBC survey shows.

The bipartisan legislation would create a regulatory framework states could adopt to prevent data center-related energy costs from being passed on to consumers.

Companies are helping universities develop courses, provide financial support and create pathways through which qualifying students can join them.

BRICS leaders have asserted the need to use local currencies in intra-BRICS trade to cut dependency on dollar.

Jensen Huang appeared to side with Trump as the president pushed back on tech CEOs' warnings about the risks of rapid AI advancement.

Two opposing camps are emerging in the AI regulation debate, with Trump and Huang on one side and Amodei.

Comments from the two tech leaders landed days after Anthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay urging the AI industry to slow the pace of model development.

The data comes as the Federal Reserve is considering interest-rate increases that could slow economic growth.

Friar joined CNBC's Jim Cramer on "Mad Money" as the debate over technology's safety risks rages on.

The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market framework.

Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.

In March, two Amazon data centers in the UAE were struck by drones, while a site was also damaged by a nearby drone hit.

Lawmakers and AI regulation advocates met Tuesday in Washington at a Future of Life Institute event to urge regulatory action to rein in the expanding technology.

Discussions have been ongoing since Google's Demis Hassabis released a proposal in July calling for a U.S.

Employers can offer Trump Account employee benefits via direct contributions or by allowing workers to make pre-tax contributions to a child's account.

Ford said the changes are meant to provide customers with more choice and help expand sales of key models, a strategy CEO Jim Farley has touted.

Rising yields across the bond market have spooked investors, but the surge from zero interest rates since Covid suggests fixed-income risk-reward has improved.

The ruling comes four months after the same judge ordered that the Kennedy Center could not be renamed to include President Trump's name

The Saudis closed the East-West pipeline after it sustained damage in a drone attack launched from Iraq.

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Nothing has changed in this bank's positive operating-leverage story.

Mortgage lenders that work with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, government-sponsored enterprises, have the green light to use VantageScore 4.0 if they want to.

Elon Musk called for the leading AI labs to peer review each others' models before they're released to the public as a way to evaluate their safety.

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If the fall travel season looks anything like the summer, costs for flights, hotels and gas will be higher and Americans will still find money for vacations.

Higher interest rates are typically viewed as dicey for stocks but also mean you can earn more on your fixed income investments.

President Trump blasted his three Supreme Court appointees for blocking a Postal Service rule that would have allowed mail-in ballots in November's elections.

AI pioneers and 'godfathers' have weighed in on Anthropic and OpenAI researcher concerns over existential safety risks around the technology.

We're headed for a slightly lower open today.

AI-driven job interviews, without a human present, are a dealbreaker for some job candidates, even in this tough market.

President Donald Trump's AI-friendly administration argues U.S. dominance over China in the fast-expanding industry is essential.

The AI narrative has flipped to a focus on the risk with the tech unpopular with the public and projections of order backlogs beyond a few quarters now suspect.

Digital Realty and Equinix, two of the largest data center REITs, saw their stocks slump after warnings over AI advancements.

The sell-off in U.S. government debt is deepening as investors increasingly price in an interest rate hike this week.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit China on Wednesday for talks, Beijing's foreign ministry announced on Tuesday.

While higher oil is cited as a main reason for the change in view, roughly three quarters of respondents see the inflation problem as broader than just energy prices.

Analysts warn oil prices could rally sharply if the pipeline remains offline beyond an estimated five-to-seven-day inventory cushion.

Stocks sold off on Tuesday as the yield on the 10-year Treasury broke above 5%.

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Anthropic and OpenAI have called for mandatory safety checks to be put in place as fears intensify that AI can soon be too powerful to control.

The new system comes as vehicles are becoming more digital, leading GM to also redesign its organizational processes.

Oil and 10-year Treasury yields are moving in near lockstep, with their correlation at its strongest since 2019.

Investors see a potential AI slowdown as problematic for companies tied to the data center buildout.

Despite growing speculation that it won't be long until Chinese autos are sold in the U.S., John Murphy doesn't expect that to happen by 2030.