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CNBC’s Rooney to cover Microsoft

March 24, 2026

Posted by Chris Roush

Kate Rooney

CNBC reporter Kate Rooney is now covering Microsoft.

She has been covering artificial intelligence.

She began her CNBC career in 2015 as a news associate and went on to work as a producer for “Squawk Box” before joining CNBC.com as a markets reporter, where she covered cryptocurrency, fintech and the brokerage industry.

Rooney moved to San Francisco in 2019, where she expanded her tech coverage, adding venture capital to her beat, and reported on major market and industry stories, including the GameStop trading frenzy, the rise and fall of FTX and later, Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial.

In 2024, she added coverage of OpenAI and Anthropic as well as Amazon and continues to report on the latest developments in AI.

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