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A recruiter speaks with job seekers at the Appalachian State University Internship and Job Fair on Wednesday, October 1, 2025 in Boone, North Carolina, USA.Alison Joyce | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Wednesday that it will not release a complete U.S. employment report for October, following the longest federal government shutdown in the country’s history. Instead, the agency said October payroll data will be released along with November’s full report. The unemployment rate for October is not included in these numbers because the data was “unable to be collected,” the BLS said, citing the government shutdown.…
Voice AI company Wispr’s dictation app Wispr Flow is getting a lot of attention. The company says that after three months of use, the average user writes more than 50% of their letters via the app. The company also works with 270 of the Fortune 500 companies and has 125 enterprise customers. That’s why the company, which just raised $30 million led by Menlo Ventures in June, has now raised another $25 million led by Notable Capital with participation from Steven Bartlett’s Flight Fund, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. With this capital infusion, the company has raised a total of $81…
Global tech stocks rallied on Thursday as investors flocked to AI stocks. Nvidia income. Nvidia reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue guidance, with revenue up 62% year over year to $57.01 billion, giving investors confidence to keep betting on the AI industry. Shares rose 5% in premarket trading.In Europe, Dutch semiconductor companies BESI and ASMI rose more than 3% and 2%, respectively, in the first hour of trading. ASML, which makes critical equipment for semiconductors, rose 2.1%.Asian-listed stocks Samsung Electronics and Hon Hai Precision Industries, also known as Foxconn, rose 3.5% and 3.3%, respectively. In the U.S., investors flocked to tech stocks…
Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Light Rocket | Getty ImagesVideo generation startup Luma AI announced it has raised $900 million in a new funding round led by Humain, an artificial intelligence company owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.To raise funds, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. The venture arm and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Amplify Partners and Matrix Partners were announced at the US-Saudi Investment Forum on Wednesday.CNBC confirmed that the company’s valuation is now over $4 billion.Luma develops a multimodal “world model” that can learn from text as well as video, audio, and images to simulate reality. CEO Amit…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang attends the US-Saudi Investment Forum held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, November 19, 2025.Stephanie Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThis is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. Is there a problem even if there are no air bubbles?Nvidia The company beat Wall Street’s profit and revenue expectations overnight and gave a stronger-than-expected outlook for the current quarter. If futures trading is any indication, the results reassured investors that concerns about the health…
Hitting the streets is a great way to get the real pulse of a city. Stroll through an indie store, pop into a coffee shop, or even grab a bar stool at a lively spot. As global listing guide Time Out puts it, city streets are where you can find “the most authentic local life.” This idea is the driving force behind the magazine’s annual “Coolest Streets” list, a global compendium of sidewalks, alleys and other urban arteries. The 2025 edition celebrates how “the streets are everything that makes city life shine,” as Time Out travel editor Grace Beard told…
Whitney Leavitt will be dancing to her own songs. In the recently released Season 3 of The Mormons, tensions between Whitney and other members of the MomTok group, including Dancing with the Stars star Jen Affleck, escalate when Whitney is accused of returning to the film industry just to compete in the ABC dance competition. That’s an assumption Whitney would gladly admit. “After last season, I decided to step away from the show, but I never left MomTok,” she said in Confessions of Mormon Wives. “I was always on MomTok and still part of that group. I really needed a…
A JetBlue Airways Airbus A321 departs from Los Angeles International Airport bound for New York on October 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.Kevin Carter | Getty Imagesjet blue airlines will launch daily seasonal flights from Boston to Milan, Italy, and Barcelona, Spain next year, pushing its single-aisle fleet deeper into Europe, its latest effort to capture big-spending travelers.Daily flights from Boston to Barcelona will begin on April 16, and daily flights from Boston to Milan will begin on May 11, the airline announced Wednesday.US Airlines — From JetBlue’s new mileage earning partner united airlines to small carriers such as alaska…
Finnish startup NestAI has raised 100 million euros (approximately $115 million) in a funding round led by Finnish sovereign wealth fund Tesi and hardware giant Nokia to develop AI products for use in driverless vehicles, autonomous driving, and command and control platforms. NestAI also partnered with Nokia to build AI products for defense applications and develop “physical AI” that uses large-scale language models and related technologies for robotics and other real-world applications. Co-founder Peter Sahlin said at technology conference Slush 2025 in Helsinki that the funding will help NestAI build “Europe’s leading physical AI lab.” Physical AI is a growing…
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Colina Machado has released a “freedom manifesto” outlining a vision for a “new era” for the country without strongman Nicolas Maduro. The four-page document, dated Nov. 9 and released Tuesday, lists the pillars of democracy she says all Venezuelans are entitled to, including the right to vote, assemble and exercise free speech. The document, which borrows language from other democratic frameworks such as the US Declaration of Independence, calls for decentralizing power from government and returning it to the people. “Every Venezuelan is born with unalienable rights, given not by man but by our Creator,” the…