First lady of Sierra Leone Fatima Jabbe-Bio, Polish first lady Marta Nawrocka, French first lady Brigitte Macron, and U.S. first lady Melania Trump look at a humanoid robot during the Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2026. Oliver Contreras |…
CHENGDU, CHINA – MARCH 18: Apple CEO Tim Cook attends a special event marking Apple’s 50th anniversary at the Apple Taikoo Li Chengdu store on March 18, 2026 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. VCG | Getty Images Tim Cook touched down in Chengdu, China, this week for an Apple Store event tied to the…
Nvidia showed CNBC its latest Vera CPU at its Santa Clara, California, headquarters on Feb. 13, 2026. Marc Ganley | CNBC Nvidia‘s graphics processing units have been the hottest-selling chips for years, but the sudden advent of agentic artificial intelligence has brought on a renaissance for its more modest host chip, the central processing unit….
The Samsung exhibition stand features the prominent ”A new era of mobile agentic AI” slogan by the South Korean company Samsung Electronics. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images Samsung’s upcoming smart glasses will have a camera and be connected to a smartphone, a top executive told CNBC, as the tech giant prepares to make…
The Xiaomi 17 Pro Max rear display flagship smartphone by Xiaomi displayed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on March 3, 2026. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images BARCELONA — Xiaomi plans to launch a new smartphone processor chip every year, the company’s President Lu Weibing told CNBC, underscoring the company’s ambition to…
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon delivers a keynote speech at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, May 19, 2025. Ann Wang | Reuters BARCELONA, Spain — Robotics will become a “larger opportunity” for Qualcomm within the next two years, CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC, as the chip giant continues its foray into areas beyond the smartphone. In January,…
The Honor Robot Phone features a camera that pops out of the main body of the device. Honor Honor on Sunday showed off the capabilities of its Robot Phone as the Chinese electronics firm looks to stand out from some of its bigger rivals like Samsung and Apple. The company, which spun off from Huawei…