Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, appears on CNBC’s Squawk Box on August 20, 2025. CNBC OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said late Wednesday that the artificial intelligence startup is not seeking a government backstop for its infrastructure commitments, clarifying previous comments she made on stage during the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live event. At the event, […]
The ESPN Bet logo on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Disney’s ESPN is swapping out its sports betting partner. In separate releases Thursday, the company said it was terminating its agreement with Penn Entertainment years earlier than planned and had signed
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Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison speaks during the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles on October 9, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Paramount Skydance has a clear holiday wish this year: acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery. Fittingly, it may have to wait until Christmas to find out if Santa Zaslav delivers. Warner
Aravind Srinivas, chief executive officer of Perplexity AI Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 5, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Perplexity AI accused Amazon of “bullying” on Tuesday after it received a letter from the e-commerce giant demanding it prevent people from using
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At South Korea’s largest amusement park, crowds of people wait for hours to be a part of the “KPop Demon Hunters” craze. U.S. streaming giant Netflix, the distributor of the Sony Pictures Animation film, has collaborated with the Everland park outside of capital city Seoul to create a themed zone featuring whack-a-mole, dance games and
TOPSHOT – A Super Mario character is pictured at a Nintendo display ahead of the launch of the company’s Switch 2 console, an electronics store in the city of Nagoya, Aichi prefecture on June 2, 2025. Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty Images Nintendo raised its forecast for sales of the Switch 2 console
Photo illustration of the YouTube TV logo displayed on a smartphone, with the YouTube logo in the background. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Disney content, including channels like ABC and ESPN, was removed from Google‘s YouTube TV on Thursday after the two companies failed to renew a contract. “Last week Disney used the threat
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Comcast topped Wall Street earnings and revenue estimates for the third quarter on Thursday, despite once again reporting a loss in broadband customers. The company said it lost 104,000 domestic broadband customers during the period, bringing its total subscriber base to roughly 31.4 million. This marked the fourth quarter in a row that Comcast failed
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Brian Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast, attends the annual Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 9th, 2025. David A. Grogan | CNBC Comcast reports earnings Thursday and could shed light on how executives view regulators’ attitude toward a potential NBCUniversal-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Warner Bros. Discovery, the
Elon Musk’s Wikipedia rival Grokipedia got off to a “rocky start” in its public debut, but Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales didn’t even have to take a look at the AI’s output to know what he expected. “I’m not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now,” Wales said at the CNBC Technology Executive Council
