
Kate Rooney
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@CNBC in San Francisco. Covering Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, gen AI ... and retail investors, with the occasional meme stock.
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2009
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! 🤰.
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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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Scoop:Â 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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RT @BatteryVentures: Will all of today’s tech unicorns continue shunning the public markets and stay “forever” private companies? . Our gen….
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RT @ashleycapoot: Exclusive w/ @Kr00ney: OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue less than three years after launching its p….
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OpenAI is now generating $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, according to a company spokesperson.
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RT @kshenster: When @jaltma and I sat down with @Kr00ney on @CNBC, we covered a little bit of everything: the state of early-stage investin….
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RT @StanfordMed: Now streaming: RAISE Health Symposium Keynote Fireside💡Microsoft's Eric Horvitz joins CNBC’s Kate Rooney to discuss human-….
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OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive’s AI devices startup for roughly $6.4 billion 🚨
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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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RT @sarbjeetjohal: How much of coding and engineering work is done by AI? @stripe co-founder @collision gave a brilliant and elaborative an….
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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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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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RT @btaylor: I had a nice conversation with @Kr00ney about @SierraPlatform, AI agents, and demand for AI applications in the face of global….
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CNBC's Kate Rooney sits down with Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor to break down the rapid improvements and cost reductions of consumer-facing AI models, the platform's new partnership with Minted...
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RT @generalcatalyst: GC’s @marcbhargava is driving our AI-enabled roll-ups to scale AI to millions of end consumers. We’re not just backin….
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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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RT @cnbcevents: NEXT WEEK 👉️ @joannastrober of @midihealth and @fridababy Founder & CEO talk with @Kr00ney about the importance of investin….
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OpenAI's $40B funding round tops every other private financing & IPO on record @SquawkCNBC @CNBC .
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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 .
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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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RT @MenloVentures: Our partner, @mmurph, spoke with @Kr00ney on @CNBC about the acceleration we're seeing in tech dealmaking this year! . W….
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