Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images The U.S. Navy has instructed its members to avoid using artificial intelligence technology from China’s DeepSeek, CNBC has learned. In a warning issued by email to “shipmates” on Friday, the Navy said DeepSeek’s AI was not to be used “in any capacity” due to “potential security and ethical…
A woman walks down the stairs in front of the U.S. Capitol building, ahead of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, in Washington on Jan. 15, 2025. Marko Djurica | Reuters The Trump administration is offering millions of federal workers the option to accept buyouts through a government-wide “deferred resignation” program if they resign by…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk during a rally the day before Trump is scheduled to be inaugurated for a second term, in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2025. Brian Snyder | Reuters Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings report lands just over a week after President Donald Trump began his second term…
Watch: Pause on federal funding targeted at DEI and ‘wokeness’, says White House A US judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s order to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants and loans, minutes before it was set to come into effect on Tuesday. Judge Loren AliKhan’s order to pause the plan until next…
Fund manager Dan Niles has thrown cold water over Nvidia‘s tentative recovery from Monday’s share price fall, warning that the chipmaker’s stock might not have hit the bottom. Shares in Nvidia slid 16.9% on Monday after Chinese startup DeepSeek claimed its free, open-source large language model was built in just two months costing $6 million, a fraction…
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google‘s maps division on Monday reclassified the U.S. as a “sensitive country,” a designation it reserves for states with strict governments and border disputes, CNBC has learned. The new classification for the U.S. came after President Donald Trump said his administration would make name changes on official maps…
Chinese travelers are canceling plans to visit Thailand during the Lunar New Year holiday, as concerns over the kidnapping of actor Wang Xing continue to reverberate through the country. Net booking volume for trips to Thailand fell 15.6% from Jan. 13 to Jan. 20 from the previous week, after news of the rescue of Wang…
Steve Cohen, chairman and CEO of Point72, speaking to CNBC on April 3, 2024. CNBC MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Billionaire investor Steve Cohen is standing by his long-term bullish view of artificial intelligence despite the wild volatility recently, saying the transformational shift could take decades to realize. “This is a 10- to 20-year theme. It’s…
The Doomsday Clock symbolising how near humanity is to destruction has been moved one second forward to 89 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) – which sets the clock annually – said nuclear threats, potential misuses of advances in biology and artificial intelligence, as…
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a press conference after the Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Washington, DC, on December 18, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The Federal Reserve gathers this week for the first time in the second presidential term of Donald Trump, who has already signaled that he…
