Mark Zuckerberg expected to testify in the landmark social media addiction case against Meta and YouTube. And joining us right now is Joshua Tucker, co-director of the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics. How much today is uh about theater and how much do you think is actually going to be accomplished, if you will, that we're actually going to learn something new.>> I mean, we'll have to see what happens what happens in the court case today and what they end up discussing and what they end up talking a ...

Yeah. >> Why does it make sense to give your competitor Paramount Sky Dance a week to negotiate with Warner Brothers if you already have a deal with them. >> Well, best if we start with where we're at, which is we have the only signed deal with Warner Brothers to acquire Warner Brothers Studios and Warner Brothers Television Studios and HBO.That is a signed deal that we have. um Peace Sky Paramount have been making a ton of noise, you know, flooding the zone with confusion for for shareholders. Uh so they d ...

analyst Dan Ives. He joins us now from Wed Bush with what to expect this evening and what's been taking place in in that group. It's good to see you. >> Great to see you.>> So, why has cyber been swept up in everything that's been going on. >> Yeah, I look I think part of it is just this software, right. I mean, the view is that can cyber be disintermediated by some of these tools, whether it's anthropic or some of the, you know, really the startup tools that are coming from an AI perspective.to my point is ...

All right, time now for a power check and today we are honing in on the energy sector and the recent upper performance that we have seen from some key names. Don't believe us. Well, in 2026 alone, we know the year is still early, but the energy sector is up 19%.This year, that makes it the best performing sector in the S&P 500 by far, outpacing the broader index and pretty much every other sector group. So, let's take a look at some of the names that are in the group that maybe should still be on your radar ...

Welcome back. Figma stock is higher after announcing a new partnership with Anthropic. It's get more details from Deerra Bosen who spoke with Figma CEO moments ago.Dearra. >> Hey Brian. So this feature it's called C sorry it's called code to canvas.It lets users take interfaces built in AI coding tools like cloud code and convert them into editable designs inside of Figma. Now, this is a bet that in a world where anyone can build software or design something with AI, the real value is in what happens next. ...

Hi everyone. It is Tuesday, February 17th. Welcome to another Tech Live stream where we cover all the moves in the AI space.There's a lot of them. I'm Georgia. Now, there's a question that has consumed every software CEO that we've spoken to over the last few weeks.How do you survive when AI can do what your product does. Most of them don't have a great answer yet. Some are embedding AI features and hoping that's enough.Others are cutting costs and praying the storm passes. A few are in outright denial. But ...

Dan Ies today again says the sell-off in Apple's unwarranted that 2026 will be the year Apple finally gets into the AI game. It's a case that he continues to make. It's not a new thought, but he'll expand on it today when he joins me on the closing bell.Um which leads me to something I find really interesting. >> So you bought Apple on >> February >> February 11th. >> Okay.>> Am I right that you I have this in front of me. You sold it the next day. >> Absolutely.>> Why. >> Because on final trade, I gave eve ...

Joining us this morning in a first on CNBC interview is it Toro's chief Yonyi AIA. Yonyi, welcome back. Good to have you.>> Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. >> Um the shares kind of have reflected the volatility and the jitters in the space, but this does seem to be a bit of a sigh of relief, right.>> Well, uh it's always great to see a positive uh market impact uh uh on on the shares. Uh we also announced the increase of uh the share buyback today uh as uh we do believe that's an opportunity u ...

China's tech giants kicking off the Lunar New Year with a new wave of AI competition. Major AI model releases from both Alibaba and Bite Dance. Our DBosa has more in today's tech check.Hey D. >> Hey Carl. Good morning.So there's just been a blitz of AI announcements. Time to what is the biggest consumer window of the year. Together they reveal something the market may be underestimating.China isn't just competing on one slice of the AI race. It's building out the entire ecosystem. from frontier models to ho ...

Bring in show music, please. >> This is Squawk Pod and I'm CNBC producer Cameron Costa. On today's episode, news in the bidding war for Warner Brothers Discovery. Paramount Sky Dance has a week to present an offer better than Netflix's. >> I'd have to say, Joe, this looks like a poop or get off the pot moment. They keep saying they're going to come up with better offer. They're saying you got seven days to do it. David Faber helps us break down the news and the counter counter offers that could be on deck. ...