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Businesses are producing more video than ever before. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless production footage, much of it sits unused on our servers, unwatched and unanalyzed. This is dark data. It is a large, untapped resource that companies automatically collect but rarely use in any meaningful way. To tackle this problem, Aza Kai (CEO) and Hiraku Yanagita (COO), two former Googlers who had worked together at Google Japan for nearly a decade, decided to build their own solution. The two co-founded InfiniMind, a Tokyo-based startup that develops infrastructure to transform petabytes of unwatched…
U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Headquarters in Washington, February 2, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal student loan borrowers filed a record number of complaints with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from mid-2024 to mid-2025, according to the bureau’s recent report. But the government’s 21-page report, released in early January, omits details about the nature of the borrowers’ complaints, including the issues faced, the loan servicers involved and the remedies available, that were included in a draft of the 36-page report obtained by CNBC.”It’s unfortunate that the report was never made public in its entirety,” said Julia Barnard, a former…
As OpenAI faces increasing pressure from rival Anthropic’s improved coding tools, CEO Sam Altman told employees and investors that the company is feeling the momentum, too.Altman told OpenAI employees on Friday that ChatGPT, the company’s popular artificial intelligence chatbot, is “back to more than 10% monthly growth,” according to an internal Slack message seen by CNBC. OpenAI is also preparing to unveil “a modern chat model” this week, Altman said.More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, but Google and Anthropic are on the rise. OpenAI declared a “code red” in December to improve ChatGPT and temporarily halted several…
The Pentagon said the United States would enforce a Trump-ordered lockdown of the South American country, even if it was “on the other side of the world.”listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationPublished February 9, 2026February 9, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareThe US military said it had seized a Venezuelan-linked vessel in the Indian Ocean, a move the US government said showed its determination to enforce an oil blockade against the South American country “on the other side of the world.”The Pentagon said Monday that the seizure of the tanker was part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s…
Manager Thomas Frank says Tottenham are “desperate” for a win as they prepare to face Newcastle in a crucial Premier League game on Tuesday night.Saturday’s 2-0 loss to Manchester United extended Spurs’ winless run in the league to seven games. Their last Premier League victory came on 28 December when Archie Gray scored a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. We have to go back to December 6th for our last home win in the league, when we beat Brentford 2-0. Similarly, our midweek opponents are winless in 4 league games.”There’s no question we’re desperate and desperate to…
Bloomberg reports that Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new funding at a valuation of $350 billion, with investor demand pushing the company to raise twice the amount it planned to raise. The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but with fierce competition among Frontier Labs and ongoing computing costs, it wants to do so as soon as possible. Companies expected to participate in the round include Altimeter Capital Management, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Coatue Management, Iconiq Capital and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, but the bulk of…
Patrick Dwyer, managing director of Miami-based boutique wealth management and planning firm Aligned by NewEdge Wealth, said even billionaires worry about their children’s futures.Mr. Dwyer says his clients, the ultra-high-net-worth individuals (mainly those with net worths of $100 million to $1 billion or more), are especially concerned that their children, primarily between the ages of 22 and 35, are unable to maintain careers in traditionally stable and lucrative industries such as technology, law and medicine.The U.S. job market is currently challenging for young people in general, regardless of individual or family income. The unemployment rate for new graduates has steadily…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Monday. Congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks for defeating the New England Patriots 29-13 in last night’s Super Bowl. Congratulations also to Lady Gaga’s fans who received a surprise performance from her during Bad Bunny’s halftime show.Stock futures fell in pre-market trading this morning. The average of the three major stocks soared on Friday.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. Dow 50,000A trader works as the Dow Jones Industrial Average exceeds $50,000 on the floor of the New York…
Aerial view of two-story single-family homes lining a street in Thousand Oaks, California, on January 14, 2026. Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesLawmakers are expected to pass a series of bills aimed at increasing housing affordability by loosening regulations on home construction and giving incentives to builders and local governments to encourage more construction. The bill has strong bipartisan support, as does a nearly identical Senate bill passed last year. This, along with President Donald Trump’s focus on housing affordability, means the bill has momentum to pass by the end of the year. “There is nothing more personal to Americans than…
If the proposal were implemented, workers would no longer be able to seek redress through independent review boards.listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationPublished February 9, 2026February 9, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareU.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is making it harder for fired federal employees to get rehired by restricting their right to appeal their firings to an independent review board.The changes were proposed as part of a government plan released by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Monday. Under the proposal, federal employees seeking to challenge their firings would have to appeal directly to OPM,…