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Kate Rooney

Technology Reporter at CNBC Online

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Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO

Meta plans to hire Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub Nat Friedman to beef up the company's AI team, according to sources.
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OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual recurring revenue fueled by ChatG...

OpenAI is now generating $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, according to a company spokesperson.
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Musk-Altman AI rivalry is complicating Trump's dealmaking in Middle...

Elon Musk tried to derail a major AI infrastructure deal in the Middle East, a source confirmed to CNBC
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OpenAI CFO says AI hardware will boost ChatGPT subscriptions in 'ne...

OpenAI's finance chief said she's confident the multibillion-dollar bet on Jony Ive's startup will pay off and drive ChatGPT subscriptions.
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How Amazon plans to catch Google and Microsoft in the quantum compu...

CNBC's Kate Rooney got exclusive access to Amazon's quantum computing lab and explores how the tech giant plans to catch up to Google and Microsoft.
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Plaid raises funding at $6 billion valuation, enabling some employe...

Plaid announced a new funding round that values the fintech company at less than half of its peak price tag four years ago.
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OpenAI funding round could be cut by $10 billion if for-profit conv...

If OpenAI doesn't restructure into an independent for-profit company by Dec. 31, its mega-financing round could be slashed by $10 billion.
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Robinhood launching a low-cost wealth management tool

CNBC’s Kate Rooney joins ‘Halftime Report’ to discuss the latest news on Robinhood's new subscription products.
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Silicon Valley bubble risks heighten as investors pile into funds t...

Special purpose vehicles, or SPVs, have gotten so popular in Silicon Valley that some experts worry it's the latest sign of a new bubble.
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Robinhood CEO sees Amazon-like subscription model as path to 'loyal...

Robinhood is evolving from a simple-to-use brokerage for young investors to a provider of wealth management and broader banking services.
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M&A markets show signs of life

CNBC's Kate Rooney reports on news regarding Alphabet.
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Y Combinator startups are fastest growing, most profitable in fund ...

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says for about a quarter of the current YC startups, 95% of the code was written by artificial intelligence models.
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Ramp secures $13 billion valuation in deal allowing employees, inve...

The deal is also the latest in a string of private companies letting employees cash out shares and lowering the pressure on themselves to go public. 
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Amazon's most powerful new Alexa features being powered by Anthropi...

Anthropic's Claude large language model is powering the majority of complex tasks for Amazon's new Alexa+, sources tell CNBC. 
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Anthropic closes in on $3.5 billion funding round as investor inter...

AI startup Anthropic is in talks to raise a new round of capital that would roughly triple its valuation to $61.5 billion, CNBC has confirmed.
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Anthropic says it's released its 'most intelligent' AI model yet as...

Anthropic unveiled its latest frontier model, Claude Sonnet 3.7, on Monday and claims it's the company's "most intelligent" version yet.
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OpenAI tops 400 million users despite DeepSeek's emergence

OpenAI now has 400 million weekly active users, up from 300 million in early December, OpenAI’s chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, tells CNBC.
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AI health-care startup OpenEvidence raises funding from Sequoia at ...

The new $75 million cash injection values OpenEvidence at $1 billion, the two companies told CNBC. 
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OpenAI rejects Musk's takeover offer, says it was 'not a bid at all'

OpenAI sent a short letter to Elon Musk's lawyer Friday, rejecting the billionaire's acquisition offer.
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Trump had phone call with OpenAI's Sam Altman last week about AI in...

President Donald Trump spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by phone Friday, ahead of the AI infrastructure announcement, CNBC has learned.
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Why tech companies like Amazon, Google and TSMC are flocking to Pho...

Phoenix, a longtime hub for aerospace and defense, is becoming an epicenter of semiconductor manufacturing and autonomous vehicles.