timef 01/02/2026
- Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children cnbc.com2026-01-02 23:12:49
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
- Norway wraps up 2025 with 96% of its new car market fully electric, and Tesla's sales are surging there cnbc.com2026-01-02 22:28:23
Almost all new cars sold in Norway last year were fully electric, according to registration data published Friday.
- Tesla reports 418,227 deliveries for the fourth quarter, down 16% cnbc.com2026-01-02 22:18:28
Tesla's fourth-quarter deliveries report follows a steep rally in the company's stock in the last few months of 2025.
- Buffett says Berkshire has the best odds of any company for lasting a century as he hands over reins cnbc.com2026-01-02 19:26:05
Berkshire has "a better chance I think of being here 100 years from now than any company I can think of," Buffett said.
- Orsted files legal challenge over Trump's halt to $5 billion offshore wind project cnbc.com2026-01-02 18:26:04
Shares of Orsted, the world's largest developer of offshore wind farms, rose more than 4% on the news.
- Trump says U.S. will intervene if Iran 'violently kills' protestors cnbc.com2026-01-02 17:34:50
Protests erupted last week over the government's handling of a sharp fall in the nation's currency and soaring prices.
- China’s BYD poised to overtake Tesla as world’s top EV seller for the first time cnbc.com2026-01-02 16:32:27
The milestone would cap an extraordinary rise for BYD, a company Tesla's Elon Musk once dismissed by laughing at their products.
- European stocks poised to start 2026 in positive territory; gold and silver prices rally cnbc.com2026-01-02 15:31:00
European markets were set to kick off the first trading day of the year on a positive note.
- Shares of KFC and Pizza Hut Indian operator Devyani jump on merger with rival franchisee Sapphire cnbc.com2026-01-02 14:10:08
Two major franchisee operators for Yum!Brands in India will merge to create a single unified franchisee for KFC & Pizza Hut in the country
- Baidu’s semiconductor unit Kunlunxin files for Hong Kong listing amid AI chip boom in China cnbc.com2026-01-02 13:08:12
Baidu has announced plans to spin off its artificial intelligence chip subsidiary, Kunlunxin, and list the new firm on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
- Singapore fourth-quarter GDP jumps 5.7%, beats expectations on strong manufacturing cnbc.com2026-01-02 08:17:39
The advance figure was also up from the 4.2% growth in the quarter before, and pushed the country's full year GDP to 4.8%
- Asia-Pacific markets set to start 2026 on a mixed note cnbc.com2026-01-02 07:49:30
Some Asian markets are still closed for the holidays, including Japan and mainland China.
- Bernie Sanders and Ron DeSantis speak out against data center boom. It's a bad sign for AI industry cnbc.com2026-01-01 23:39:54
Sen. Bernie Sanders has called for a data center moratoriu, while Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed back on the AI industry in Florida.
- A 5 million percent return in 60 years leaves Warren Buffett’s legacy unmatched cnbc.com2026-01-01 22:31:44
Warren Buffett has handed over the reins after a six-decade run that turned an unremarkable textile mill into one of the most powerful compounding engines in history.
- How $160 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia chips were allegedly smuggled into China cnbc.com2026-01-01 00:14:47
The scheme involved falsifying shipping documents to misclassify the GPUs and hide their true destinations, including China and other prohibited locations.
