Squawk on the Street

A huge morning for AI and the tech trade:

Carl Quintanilla, Leslie Picker, and David Faber kicked off the hour with fresh news out of OpenAI - closing a $110 billion funding round in the largest private tech financing on record. HSBC'S Chief Multi-Asset Strategist joined the team with his tech playbook - before later on, longtime industry investor Dan Niles gave his take on the headlines and the stocks he would be buying here. Plus: 2 software CEOs joined the team to breakdown earnings from their companies - and very different stock reactions... Zscaler's CEO Jay Chaudhry, along with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost. 

Elsewhere this hour: Paramount winning the war for Warner Brothers Discovery - but what comes next? David brought the latest headlines and color... Plus, the news hitting Financial stocks in the early trade.

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On a busy final trading day of February, Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer discussed market reaction to key wholesale inflation data: Stocks under pressure after the January Producer Price Index came in hotter than expected. OpenAI raised $110 billion in new funding, including investments from SoftBank, Nvidia and Amazon — valuing the maker of ChatGPT at $730 billion. Hear what OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told CNBC about their strategic partnership. CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator joined the anchors at Post 9 to discuss AI and the company's quarterly results that sent the stock lower by double digits. Also in focus: Paramount wins the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery, Block shares surge as the fintech firm slashes its workforce.

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Carl Quintanilla, Michael Santoli, and David Faber kicked off the hour with a deep dive on the story of the day: Nvidia earnings, as shares turned lower despite a big beat. Truist CIO Keith Lerner discussed the high bar for investors - and dueling dynamics between software and the semis, before the team broke down the state of the Big Tech trade with one analyst who's still bullish on Nvidia here. 

Also in focus: the view from the C-Suite... Hear the CEO of IMAX talk the company's record earnings - and who he thinks should acquire Warner Brothers Discovery... Along with the CEO of Zoom - fresh off results hitting shares double digits. 

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Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber delved into Nvidia's blowout quarter and upbeat guidance fueled by the AI boom — plus why the stock swung into negative territory at the opening bell. It was a different story for Salesforce, which posted better-than-expected Q4 results and erased its pre-market losses at the open. The CEOs of both companies spoke to CNBC: Nvidia's Jensen Huang on what the market got "wrong" — and Salesforce's Marc Benioff on the "SaaS-pocalypse" that has sent shares of the company and its software rivals tumbling.

Also in focus: Snowflake heats up, the earnings chapter in the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, the automaker that posted its first-ever annual loss, robots in China.

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