Andrew Ross Sorkin

Donald Trump called into CNBC’s Squawk Box on Monday where he talked about crypto, tried to defend his complete 180 on a TikTok ban, and promoted his new sneakers. The former president also railed against Facebook, calling it the “enemy of the people.” But there’s one thing Trump didn’t mention about Facebook: He’s still buying ads on the social media platform.Meta's Apparent Firing Goof“I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people, along with a lot of the media,” Trump said on the show MondayTrump is still spending…

Elon Musk tweeted late Wednesday night that he’s never gone to therapy, a fact that he wants to be immortalized on his gravestone. And whatever you think of the billionaire’s attitude to mental health treatment, Musk’s tweet would seem pretty unremarkable in isolation. However, Musk keeps tweeting about this for some reason, including three times in the past two months alone.Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson Interview“Put ‘Never Went to Therapy’ on my gravestone,” Musk tweeted on February 28.“He’s…

Jamie Dimon, President & CEO,Chairman & CEO JPMorgan Chase, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 17yth, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBCJPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said he remains cautious on the U.S. economy over the next two years because of a combination of financial and geopolitical risks."You have all these very powerful forces that are going to be affecting us in '24 and '25," Dimon told Andrew Ross Sorkin Wednesday in a CNBC interview at the World…

November 29, 2023 @ 2:36 PM Elon Musk told advertisers who suspended ad buys on his social media platform X to “go f–k yourself” Wednesday, marking a heated development in the ongoing fallout from an antisemitic tweet he endorsed earlier this month. The tech mogul and X owner also apologized for the antisemitic tweet during the New York Times DealBook summit, saying that he “handed a loaded gun to those who hate me, and arguably to those who are antisemitic. For that I’m quite sorry. That was not my intention.”…

“Go fuck yourself.” Thus spake Elon Musk during a conversation with Dealbook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday. Amidst a wide-ranging conversation with the New York Times sponsored event, the increasingly unhinged Tesla CEO said that he wouldn’t be “blackmailed” by advertisers who—in response to his recent, controversial comments—might want to pull their money from his flailing social media platform, X. Instead, Musk said that advertisers who were concerned about his more colorful ideations (including, specifically,…

Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s chief financial officer, is threatening to investigate insurance companies that leave the state. Patronis blames “wokeness” for the moves,not rampant lawsuits or climate change. Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerPatronis’ ire comes after Farmers Insurance announced that it would not renew certain existing policies in Florida earlier this month. This move will affect auto insurance, home insurance, and policies that cover both. The decision was made by leadership in…

The saga over Washington's embattled football team might not be over quite yet.Canadian billionaire Steve Apostolopoulos appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Monday, telling Andrew Ross Sorkin that he's "still in the hunt" when it comes to purchasing the Washington Commanders."I want to respect the process, but it is a head-to-head process right now," he said.Earlier this month, an ownership group led by Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils owner Josh Harris made a bid worth an estimated $6 billion.That bid is said to be…

Meta appears to have suspended an Instagram parody account attempting to post this Zuckerberg deep fake just weeks after Zuckerberg himself expounded on the importance of making that same type of content available on his platforms. The deep fake, which shows a digitally altered Zuckerberg gloating over Congress’ self-inflicted struggles to pass tech-focused antitrust reform, was suspended the very same day Congress all but killed those reforms by not including the measures in a morethan 4,000 page omnibus bill. Demand…

Screenshot: New York Times / YouTubeSam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX and former CEO, spoke with New York Times and CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin in a highly anticipated interview on Wednesday that had been booked before FTX imploded. And it was a master class in spin.Bankman-Fried, more commonly known as SBF, joined virtually from the Bahamas and spent the interview repeatedly adopting the posture and cadence of a 15-year-old kid caught with a baggie of weed in his sock drawer. But SBF wasn’t caught smoking weed by…

File photo of Sam Bankman-Fried testifying during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on digital assets on December 8, 2021.Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll (AP)Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, says he donated equally to both Democratic and Republican politicians before his cryptocurrency platform filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, wiping out billions of dollars in customer deposits. And that fact is going to come as a real shock to right-wing political operatives on Fox News who’ve tried to claim…