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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-5: We've built an 'integrated single experience'
CNBC Television· 2025-08-08 13:18
OpenAI launching its latest new model, GPT5, offering faster performance, fewer hallucinations, improved coding capabilities, and customizable personalities. I've been playing with it uh for the last 24 hours. Joining us right now is uh the man who co-founded the company, CEO Sam Alman.Sam, it's great to see you, sir. >> Good to see you, too. Thanks for having me.>> We've been trying to build, by the way, an app all morning. I mean, GitHub right now trying to build Joe Curtin an app unsuccessfully. But well ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Elon Musk: I don't think about him that much
CNBC Television· 2025-08-08 13:18
And then finally, uh, one of the paths to getting public is to make a deal with Microsoft. Um, I think as you're trying to, when I say make a deal, you're you're going to create this this private vehicle effectively out of a not for-p profofit. What is the state of play there.>> Um, still trying, you know, still like like positive stuff and we have lots of other things that are kind of higher priority at the moment, but um like positive progress on it. Um, you knew I'd asked the question. I think you knew I ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on race for AI talent: The most intense talent market I've seen in my career
CNBC Television· 2025-08-08 13:16
Okay, got to go back to the business. Uh, lots of questions about just the race for talent right now. These huge numbers we we hear, you know, Mark Zuckerberg trying to, you know, pay people a billion dollars uh to attract them from you from your place and others.What does that race look like at the moment. How many people, by the way, are there out there right this moment that you think are in this sort of like super league that are almost, you know, indispensable. Um definitely this is the most intense ta ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on path to profitability: Willing to run at a loss to focus on growth
CNBC Television· 2025-08-08 13:12
your company uh is reportedly now worth up to $500 billion dollars. Is that accurate in terms of uh >> I always think I'm not supposed to like comment on currently in flight stuff. >> Um well, let me ask you this.There is a a uh effort by Robin Hood and by the way others uh to try to sell your shares in a secondary market um sometimes people are tokenizing these these uh special purpose vehicles and other things like that. What do you make of what's happening. And do you do you think or want the public to b ...
Block CFO Amrita Ahuja on Q2 results, fintech competition and future of bitcoin
CNBC Television· 2025-08-08 12:39
Fintech company Block reporting weaker than expected earnings but shares rising on upbeat guidance. For more on the results, we are joined now by uh Amaretta uh Waju, CFO of Block. Good morning to you.Um my question to you is is look, the stock is actually moving higher on the higher guidance. The question is how we should think about this last quarter before we even get into the future. >> Well, thank you so much for having me today.It's great to be here. We had a really strong second quarter where we exec ...
Robby Starbuck on Meta lawsuit: We don't want AI putting its thumb on the scale in politics
CNBC Television· 2025-08-08 12:30
Meta reaching a resolution with conservative actor Robbie Starbucks, who had sued the tech giant, you remember, for defamation back in April. He alleged that Meta's AI chatbot spread false statements about him, including that he participated in the riot at the US capital on January 6th, 2021, which he did not do. A joint statement between the two parties says they quote resolve this matter to our mutual satisfaction and quote Meta and Robbie Star will work collaboratively in the coming months to continue to ...
Hot stocks to watch: Oakmark Fund’s Bill Nygren on his top value plays
CNBC Television· 2025-08-08 12:28
Obama. >> All right, let's get to the markets. Fascinated by some of these comments and picks.We got Oakmark fund's portfolio manager Bill Nygren, joins us now with his read on the value and or on the market, and maybe some value picks for your portfolio. And the first one, I saw a bill and then we'll talk about some other stuff. But was was charter.I mean, it's gotten a lot more reasonable in terms of value. >> It certainly has. >> Are you just now deciding you like it or.>> We've owned the stock for a lon ...
CNBC All-America Economic Survey: 68% of respondents are uncomfortable with AI
CNBC Television· 2025-08-08 12:25
CBC's got some new survey data that just reveals how many people are using and paying for AI platforms. I'm one of them, Steve Leeman. Um, how many folks are doing this.I'll get to that in a second, Andrew. And I got a question for you at the end of all this, but the overall Americans remain largely uncomfortable with artificial intelligence, but they're still using it in, I'll tease it, surprising numbers. 68% of the public in our nationwide survey of a thousand say they're uncomfortable with AI.31% comfor ...
Kelly Ortberg's first year as Boeing CEO: State of the company's turnaround effort
CNBC Television· 2025-08-08 12:22
Company Performance - Boeing's stock has outperformed both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500, rising 38% in the last year [2] - The company has cut losses and is projected to be cash flow positive by the end of the year [3] - Boeing delivered 280 aircraft in the first half of the year, marking their best first half since the beginning of 2018 [4][5] - Boeing's shares are still under 50% from the all-time high in March 2019 [6] Operational Improvements - A focus on quality and safety has been job one at Boeing, especially with commercial airplane production [3] - Airlines have noted a significant decrease in problems with newly delivered aircraft, indicating improvements in quality and safety [11][12] - Improvements have been made in 737 Max production [4] Future Challenges and Vision - Boeing faces challenges in fixing its space division, particularly the Starliner program [7] - The defense division shows signs of progress but is still far from its potential [8] - Boeing will eventually need to develop a vision for its next commercial airplane, with delivery not expected until well past 2035 [8] - The industry emphasizes the importance of Boeing's success for both the US and global air travel [15]
Link: China is turning thanks to aggressive fiscal and consumer stimulus
CNBC Television· 2025-08-08 12:15
also a CNBC contributor. Good morning, Stephanie. Thank you for the early wake up call.So can we feel comfortable in this market right now continuing to add to positions. >> Well, I have been adding to positions. We're fortunate to have earnings season right now.Right. So we're hearing real time what companies are seeing how they're reporting and the reporting. Really good numbers Dom almost a 10% growth.And where the guides are and the reactions have been very disappointing. But that I think is your opport ...