Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel at a Bitcoin conference in 2022.© Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- Three ditched Harvard University to design specialized AI chips. Another two left New York University to develop a better crypto exchange and a photo sharing app.

These are a few of the latest recruits for Peter Thiel’s fellowship program, which grants entrepreneurs age 22 and younger $100,000, under the condition they drop out of school, if they haven’t already. This year the fellowship r...

(Bloomberg) -- Investors are facing a pivotal week as a key measure of inflation that hits Tuesday and the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision on Wednesday are expected to set the tone for the stock market and economy heading into 2024.

Growing speculation that the Fed is done hiking rates and will start cutting by mid-year is fueling a sharp drop in Treasury yields and rekindling investors’ risk appetite. The S&P 500 Index has added roughly $4 trillion in market value since late Octo...

A couple of small-cap stocks that have the potential to achieve significant gains next year are InMode (NASDAQ: INMD) and Bitfarms (NASDAQ: BITF). Here's why t...

“Bitcoin and any cryptocurrency at this point has not really established itself as a credible institutional investment,” Minerd said Wednesday during a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Everything is suspect.”

Minerd said his firm bought Bitcoin at $20,000 and sold w...

Doing a money challenge is a good way to build your savings.

Some money challenges are effective, but hard for most people to complete due to the significant amounts of money required toward the end of some challenges. By starting small with your saving habit, you can save a nice chunk of change without having to come up with prohibitively large amounts of money to stay on track.

Money challenges can be fun and motivating. If you have trouble saving money, ...

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The idea was taken as a jab at both the city of San Francisco, which has grappled with a deepening homeless crisis, and at Twitter, whose employees have been told they can work remotely forever. Perhaps the building would be better used as homeless housing, Musk s...

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The transaction closed on September 17th. Stem issued 8,209,178 shares of common stock at a deemed aggregate value of US$ 2...

• Within a decade, quantum computing is expected to be able to hack into cell phones, bank accounts, email addresses and bitcoin wallets.
• "The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has been working on a new standard for encryption for the future that's quantum proof," said Fred Thiel, CEO of cryptocurrency mining specialist Marathon Digital Holdings. 

© Provided by CNBC Intel's 17-qubit quantum test chip.

Stefan Thomas really could have used a quantum computer this year.

The German-b...