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@CNBC in San Francisco. Covering Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, gen AI ... and retail investors, with the occasional meme stock.

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Joined July 2009
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Kate Rooney
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Inside @CNBC's "Baby Boom": @people If you don't see the inimitable @dee_bosa @KellyCNBC @PippaStevens13 @mmcassella @angelicapeebles on the air this summer/ fall, now you know why! 🤰 https://t.co/ytsUndvITC
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Kate Rooney
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Signing off for maternity leave a little sooner than expected👋 Baby number two isn’t due for a bit. But doctor’s orders .. off the air (and mostly horizontal) for this last stretch. Grateful for all the support from our @CNBC team. News FOMO already. See ya soon!
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Kate Rooney
4 months
Scoop:  Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but ended up hiring its CEO instead More on Mark Zuckerberg's failed attempt at recruiting Ilya and buying SSI .. plus Meta's plan to bring on Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman @CNBC
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Meta plans to hire Safe Superintelligence CEO Daniel Gross and former GitHub Nat Friedman to beef up the company's AI team, according to sources.
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@BatteryVentures
Battery Ventures
4 months
Will all of today’s tech unicorns continue shunning the public markets and stay “forever” private companies? Our general partner, Dharmesh Thakker (@Dthakker02), in a great conversation with @CNBC's Kate Rooney (@Kr00ney), says no. Sure, it’s still easy for the biggest and best
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Ashley Capoot
4 months
Exclusive w/ @Kr00ney: OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue less than three years after launching its popular ChatGPT chatbot. https://t.co/fx4bgC7cxl
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OpenAI is now generating $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, according to a company spokesperson.
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Kristina Shen
5 months
When @jaltma and I sat down with @Kr00ney on @CNBC, we covered a little bit of everything: the state of early-stage investing, what it takes to build (and back) enduring companies, and why MANGO might be the new FAANG. Founders today are navigating noise, capital constraints,
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@StanfordMed
Stanford Medicine
5 months
Now streaming: RAISE Health Symposium Keynote Fireside💡Microsoft's Eric Horvitz joins CNBC’s Kate Rooney to discuss human-AI collaboration, decision-making under uncertainty, and the societal impact of emerging tech. 🔗 Watch live: https://t.co/qJZnmqI0Vv
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Kate Rooney
5 months
Sat down with OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on CNBC morning as the AI company announced the latest Stargate expansion in UAE, and day after its deal to buy Jony Ive's devices startup for $6.5B. Friar says she’s confident the multibillion-dollar bet on Ive’s startup will pay off, and
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Kate Rooney
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OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive’s AI devices startup for roughly $6.4 billion 🚨 https://t.co/8WQFKmmKqp
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OpenAI said Wednesday that it's acquiring Jony Ive's artificial intelligence devices startup io for about $6.4 billion.
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Sarbjeet Johal
5 months
How much of coding and engineering work is done by AI? @stripe co-founder @collision gave a brilliant and elaborative answer, last week while talking to CNBC’s @Kr00ney! Productivity lies on a spectrum he said! It’s working progress he added! #CodeAssistants #CoPilot
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Kate Rooney
5 months
Chatted with @collision this week on the heels of Stripe Sessions in SF @CNBC interview dives into everything from the company’s AI news to tariffs, health of the consumer, the current tech race and what he’s taken from Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett in building Stripe 💳
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Kate Rooney
6 months
Sat down with @btaylor , co-founder of Sierra and chairman of OpenAI’s board, at CNBC's San Francisco bureau this week 🌉 Fascinating convo about: - New deal with Minted 🎄 - The boom in AI agents and how to build a moat - Potential pullback in enterprise IT spending (how AI
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@generalcatalyst
General Catalyst
6 months
GC’s @marcbhargava is driving our AI-enabled roll-ups to scale AI to millions of end consumers. We’re not just backing AI-native software companies. We’re helping them scale quickly by acquiring traditional businesses in their industries. By combining applied AI with established
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Kate Rooney
7 months
Plaid announced a new funding Thursday round that values the fintech startup at $6 billion, roughly half of its peak price four years ago. Sat down with CEO @zachperret who says Plaid plans on going public (just not yet). Chatted about "fintech spring" market multiples and
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@cnbcevents
CNBC Events
7 months
NEXT WEEK 👉️ @joannastrober of @midihealth and @fridababy Founder & CEO talk with @Kr00ney about the importance of investing in women’s health and challenging the misconceptions that surround fertility, postpartum and menopause. #CNBCChangemakers MORE: https://t.co/QgoO4Smlsg
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Kate Rooney
7 months
OpenAI's $40B funding round tops every other private financing & IPO on record @SquawkCNBC @CNBC https://t.co/X0moQ7igQK
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Kate Rooney
7 months
OpenAI closes $40 billion funding round, largest private tech deal on record 🚨 The Softbank-led deal values the AI company at $300B ChatGPT now has 500M weekly users, up from 400M a month ago Reporting with @haydenfield @CNBC https://t.co/0cfLEVOfgu
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OpenAI on Monday announced the close of its $40 billion financing, the most money raised in a single round by a private tech company.
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@MenloVentures
Menlo Ventures
7 months
Our partner, @mmurph, spoke with @Kr00ney on @CNBC about the acceleration we're seeing in tech dealmaking this year! While Google's $32B Wiz acquisition grabbed headlines, Matt points out that smaller deals are happening much faster than 2024. Watch the full conversation to
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