Polls show AI sentiment is waning in the U.S.
CNBC Television· 2026-04-14 18:27
From data center bans to plummeting public perception, AI companies are facing increasing backlash ahead of what could be historic public debuts. Kate Rooney has more on today's tech check on data centers and AI. Kate, >> hey Dom.So, the mood around this technology is increasingly negative. Investors do see that as a real threat as open eye and anthropic especially look to go public. Plus, you've got big tech which does plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars just this year on that data center buildou ...
Brian Hooker details what he told police after being released from custody
NBC News· 2026-04-14 18:26AI Processing
Brian Hooker, the man who was arrested in connection to his wife Linette's disappearance in the Bahamas, is speaking out for the first time since being released from police custody last night. It's been 10 days. It's been a long time.I don't think I've ever been apart from her in in 25 years for this long. She wouldn't stop and I wouldn't. Bohemian officials did not have enough evidence to file formal charges, but Hooker is not in the clear yet.Authorities say that they are still considering him a suspect i ...
How China is eyeing a bigger diplomatic role in the Middle East amid the Iran conflict
NBC News· 2026-04-14 18:25
Some ships, many linked with Iran, are moving through the Strait of Hormuz today despite President Trump's blockade of Iranian ports. The first ship to pass through the waterway since the partial stoppage began yesterday morning was a US-sanctioned Chinese tanker. Now, the Strait of Hormuz, as we've been telling you, is a major sticking point in negotiations between the US and Iran.The two people familiar with the discussions tell NBC News those talks could resume as early as this week. Now, this is all com ...
Is this what Europe needs to be competitive?
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2026-04-14 18:24
If Europe does not have access to Google level infrastructure, then what are you guys even doing. Like that's roughly what the continent needs for full sovereignty, right. right to have as at least as much infrastructure locally as there is within the Alphabet Holdings pool over the next four. ...
The Rachel Maddow Show - April 13 | Audio Only
MSNBC· 2026-04-14 18:21
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Market and economy largely isolated from oil shock of Iran war, says Wells Fargo's Ohsung Kwon
CNBC Television· 2026-04-14 18:17
Here with me now is Osan Kuan, the chief equity strategist over at Wells Fargo. This conversation has been daunting. I mean, if you look at the way markets have performed, who would have thought that now at this stage with the war still going, that if you looked at the indices, you'd recover most of the losses, if not all of them, and those people looking at their 401k balances are pretty much back to where they were at the end of February.What happened. Yeah, I mean this basically shows that the market and ...
How to navigate the market rebound
CNBC Television· 2026-04-14 18:16
Let's check the markets. Got a good thing going today. We're green across the board. NASDAQ's up one and a half%. Man, the Russell. The Russell is up 9% year to date. Small caps have been playing ball big time. S&P now wipes out all the losses since the war began. NASDAQ's coming off its ninth straight positive session or 10. We're going 10 now. Longest since December of 23. The S&P is less than 1% from new highs. Can't believe you're saying that, Joe, after what we've been through recently. But the tide ha ...
Tech-Heavy Nasdaq 100 Eyes Best Run in Years
Bloomberg Technology· 2026-04-14 18:12
What's notable is that there is some desire to be making purchases at this moment, despite the volatility in the market. What do you make of M&A coming to the fore. Well, as there's definitely the race is on.I think that's a good description of the current state of the market. There are a lot of disruptive changes happening across different themes. Air is one of them.But there are other things as well. And because of that, I feel that incumbents in particular with such strong balance sheet historically they ...
How Can You Tell if a Piece of Writing Was Generated by AI?
Bloomberg Television· 2026-04-14 18:00
Using your model, Are you able to quantify what percentage of the Internet at the moment is a slope. It's about 40%. Wow.So a lot of the Internet is just like SEO written articles and it's articles written for search, basically, so that your website comes up more often, search because it's targeting certain keywords. And a lot of that industry has switched over to using A. I.because then instead of having to pay writers, you could turn out articles for pennies on the dollar. That kind of results in a lot of ...
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on the growth of global capital markets
CNBC Television· 2026-04-14 18:00
I believe we are just the beginning of growing the global capital markets and I do believe you're going to see the breadth and depth of the global capital markets is growing and a black rockck will be a part of that and so we're winning share and I do believe the share that we're winning is is not a a one quarter phenomenon but it's just years of years of building up this platform. ...