Ireland election sees pro-business continuity despite voter discontent

Ballot papers are counted at the Dublin RDS centre, in Dublin, on December 1, 2024, on the second day of counting ballots in the Irish General Election.  Ben Stansall |…

Amazon sellers are flocking to TikTok Shop despite looming U.S. ban

A file photo of a livestreamer selling handbags at a TikTok Livestreaming E-commerce Base on October 12, 2021 in Wuhan, China. Visual China Group | Getty Images Sporting a sparkly…

Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI from converting to a for-profit

Elon Musk is asking a federal court to stop OpenAI from converting into a fully for-profit business. Attorneys representing Musk, his AI startup xAI, and former OpenAI board member Shivon…

Rally in small caps just starting: VettaFi’s Rosenbluth suggests

Small caps just had their first historic week in three years, and one exchange-traded fund expert predicts the group’s record highs will help drive investors back into the group. “Small…

In the new space race, hackers are hitching a ride into orbit

The unoccupied space-facing port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module is pictured several hours before the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft would relocate there after undocking from Harmony’s forward port.…

Oracle on pace for best year since 1999. How to play the meteoric rise

Bets on artificial intelligence and the buildout of large language models have hoisted shares of a once ubiquitous megacap technology stock to its best year in a quarter century. Oracle…

Buy Big Tech firms with exposure to emerging markets: Mark Mobius

U.S. tech companies with a focus on emerging markets offer the best investment opportunities for the coming year, according to veteran emerging markets investor Mark Mobius. “The U.S market will…

The causes and costs of India’s brain drain

This report is from this week’s CNBC’s “Inside India” newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse and the big businesses behind its meteoric…

These economists say AI can improve the fiscal health of the U.S.

Can artificial intelligence be so transformative as to solve one of the U.S. economy’s biggest problems: its skyrocketing fiscal deficit? According to three economists at the Brookings Institution, the answer…

OpenAI gets $1.5 billion investment from SoftBank in tender offer

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during an event in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI is allowing employees…