This spring is clearly a buyer market, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy for all buyers. And that's because mortgage rates are rising when we thought they'd be falling now. And concern over the economy is very real.The average rate on the 30-year fix jumped 10 more basis points this morning to 6.53% according to Mortgage News Daily. Barely a month ago, it was dipping into the 5% range. But the war with Iran turned that around.Buyers are only in the driver's seat now because inventory is up and pri ...

So you've got Anthropic heading to court with the Pentagon on Tuesday. Open AAI taking heat for rushing into a defense deal. So really the biggest beneficiary so far may actually be Google which has worked hard to stay out of the spotlight since the Iran war began.Now BI reporting that in a January deep mind town hall weeks before Anthropics Pentagon battle, CEO Demis told staff he was very comfortable pushing deeper into national security work. Now, by that point, Google had already updated its AI principl ...

Bring in show music, please. >> This is SquawkPod and I'm CNBC producer Cameron Costa. On today's episode, the young entrepreneurs using AI to shake up traditional market research.Aru co-founders Ned Co. >> It starts with this idea of convincing people that magic is real, right. It's an incredibly challenging problem to go to someone and say, "Hey, we're going to be more accurate than predicting human behavior than you are even when you talk to your customers directly." >> And Cameron think >> if you can pr ...

for more on the market. In the meantime, let's bring in Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Chief Investment Officer, Lisa Shallot. Lisa, what a pleasure.It's good to have you back again. >> Always nice to see you, Carl. >> We were talking about sort of the some argue moderate levels that we've come off the highs.You argue that this sort of FOMO, buy the dip, every crisis is an opportunity is dangerous thinking. Well, ultimately we know at some point uh one of these drawdowns is is going to result in a bare ma ...

Google's looking to take advantage of this battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon, even as their own employees side with Anthropic in the battle against the Department of Defense. Our Mackenzie Sagalos has that story in today's Tech Check. Morning, Mac.>> Hey, Carl. So, you've got Anthropic heading to court with the Pentagon on Tuesday. Open AAI taking heat for rushing into a defense deal.So, really the biggest beneficiary so far may actually be Google, which has worked hard to stay out of the spotlight ...

Look, this is essentially a to-do list for Congress when it comes to regulating AI. It's the White House attempting to really add momentum to one of those stalled pushes to preempt a growing number of state AI laws with a federal standard. And the framework actually for the first time really splits up kind of where states can put AI regulation in place to protect consumers, prevent fraud, but then says that they don't want states to be mandating how AI companies develop their models. and they don't want sta ...

So oil prices are modestly higher despite Secretary Besson saying the US may unsanction Iranian oil that's on the water. Brent now holding right around 10986. Now President Trump has frequently said the US is the world's largest oil producer, but there is little indication we'll see a meaningful uptick in production for two reasons.The first is the shape of the curve. Prices farther out have moved higher, but WTI for January delivery is around $77. That's about $20 below where the front month is currently s ...

>> WELCOME BACK EVERYBODY. AI STARTUP ARU IS A SIMULATION COMPANY THAT BELIEVES IT HAS CRACKED THE CODE FOR PREDICTING HUMAN BEHAVIOR WITH HIGHER ACCURACY AND SPEED. IT WAS FOUNDED JUST ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO BY TEENAGERS AT THE TIME.THE STARTUP IS NOW VALUED AT $1 BILLION, AND IT HAS CLIENTS THAT INCLUDE ERNST AND YOUNG, ACCENTURE DRUG MAKER BAYER, THE FILM STUDIO A24, BOSTON BEER COMPANY, SPINDRIFT AND OTHERS IN BUSINESS AND POLITICS. JOINING US RIGHT NOW IS KAMRAN FINK. HE IS THE CEO OF ARU.NEDCO IS THE PRE ...

This week, Mastercard announced an acquisition of stable coin infrastructure startup BVNK for up to $1.8% billion. It's the latest in mainstream finance's adoption of blockchain technology. Joining us right now is one of BVN K's backers, who's also betting on the growing link between blockchain and fintech.We haven't seen her in quite a while. Katie Han is here, founder and CEO of two and a half billion dollar firm Han Ventures. Uh she's backed the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, Coinbase, and so many others, i ...

probably not a bad time to check uh check in on the uh the technicals in in across the board in the markets. Join us Katie Stockton, Fairle Strategies founder and CNBC contributor. People that don't even pay attention have heard about the 200 day moving average issue is it it's an important indicator.It's not like magic. It just tells you you you know here's where we've been trading for this period of time and we're at a point now where that those levels could be broken. They're they're in play right now th ...