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Qualcomm's new 2nm Snapdragon chips target agentic AI, faster on-device processing and premium smartphones, but handset pressures remain.

Key Stats for Accenture StockPrice change for Accenture stock in last 1 year: 23%$ACN Stock Price as of Sep. 22: $18452-Week High: $291$ACN Stock Price Target: $187What Happened?Accenture (ACN) shares jumped after the company announced a major new partnership with Anthropic.

Kraft Heinz (NYSE:KHC) brand Capri Sun has released a limited-edition Big Pouch in response to consumer requests. The Big Pouch format is being rolled out as a time-limited trial, with direct fan feedback set to influence its future. Capri Sun is inviting consumers to share reactions on the new pack, feeding into Kraft Heinz product development decisions. The Capri Sun Big Pouch launch is only one part of how Kraft Heinz is trying to reshape its brands for the next phase. Our analysis turns...

Cisco Systems (NasdaqGS:CSCO) announced a collaboration with quantum technology firm Infleqtion to advance distributed quantum networking architectures. The partners plan to work on quantum memory to optical transduction and networked quantum devices for long distance connectivity. Cisco highlighted a prototype Universal Quantum Switch as part of its push to connect, operate, and scale quantum systems. The Infleqtion partnership and Universal Quantum Switch prototype only capture one part of...

Target (NYSE:TGT) rolled out its national Beauty Studio concept, adding hundreds of new prestige and global beauty brands across stores. The retailer introduced multiple U.S. exclusive beauty partnerships through Beauty Studio, aimed at younger and more premium shoppers. Target expanded its assortment in food with Coast to Coast Kitchen, Wild Alaskan Company and Amylu Foods, and added home-care brand The Laundress. The Beauty Studio rollout and new food and home-care partnerships matter, but...

Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) used its Snapdragon Summit 2026 keynote to outline its strategy for “agentic” artificial intelligence, positioning smartphones and other connected devices as personal AI endpoints that can understand context, coordinate tasks and act on users’ behalf. President and CEO Cristi

Ouster (OUST) drew fresh attention after INTERGEO 2026, where it showed its digital lidar inside Flyability’s Elios 3 drone and introduced Rev8, a native color lidar pitched for industrial reality capture. Investors have responded quickly to Ouster’s INTERGEO 2026 presence, with a 1-day share price return of 5.59% and a 7-day share price return of 22.75%. This adds to a year-to-date share price gain of 72.23% and a 3-year total shareholder return of roughly 7x, even though the 5-year total...

Qualcomm introduced Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 at its annual Snapdragon Summit.

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has introduced a new private credit reference data service, using its ICE IDs system and data infrastructure to structure and deliver information on private credit instruments to institutional clients. Intercontinental Exchange has seen mixed momentum recently, with the share price down 3.65% over the past month but up 16.82% over 90 days. The 1-year total shareholder return has declined 7.45%, while the 3-year total shareholder return sits at 47.72%,...

Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.

In Bitcoin news today, US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $998.95M on Monday, their strongest single-day haul since October 2025, the same day X switched on trading links for Bitcoin and other assets across five outside brokerages, and Coinbase introduced fixed-rate Bitcoin-backed borrowing through Morpho Midnight. All of these catalysts ...

Shopify stock is surging, thanks to a partnership with Meta’s hot new AI agent.

Alibaba Group Holding is rolling out what it calls China's most powerful AI chip, an accelerator to compete with Nvidia. Ed Ludlow reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest."

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) has introduced Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense, a cybersecurity service designed to identify vulnerabilities and provide remediation guidance through continuous AI-powered testing. The service combines AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI within a proprietary multi-model system, allowing different security tasks to be assigned to the model considered most suitable.

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) shares gained 3% on Tuesday after the company announced that SoFi Bank had become the first nationally chartered US bank to introduce live stablecoin settlement across Mastercard’s global payments network. The bank is migrating its entire debit and credit card programme to blockchain-based settlement using SoFiUSD, its US dollar-backed stablecoin.

Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA), the Chinese technology giant, unveiled a new AI chip and plans to expand its data center capacity at its annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on Tuesday. The company introduced the Zhenwu V900, which it called China’s most powerful AI chip and said it delivers three...

Nextech3D.AI (CSE:NTAR, OTCQX:NEXCF, FRA:1SS) has launched KATE, an AI-powered Training Intelligence platform that turns executives, trainers and subject-matter experts into AI-powered digital trainers while measuring training effectiveness in real time. The company also said it has initiated...

LUMN launches Intelligent Internet, offering flexible bandwidth, term-based pricing and security as enterprise AI workloads drive demand.

Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) unveiled a new artificial intelligence processor on Tuesday, describing it as China’s most powerful AI chip, while outlining plans to expand its data centre capacity to more than 20 gigawatts by 2032. Chief Executive Eddie Wu introduced the Zhenwu V900 accelerator at Alibaba’s annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, highlighting the company’s investment in AI infrastructure and advanced computing.

STMicroelectronics (ENXTPA:STMPA) just introduced its ST SafeSense VD56GA infrared image sensor for in car driver and occupant monitoring, giving investors fresh context for thinking about the semiconductor group’s automotive exposure. The new sensor launch follows a sharp reset in sentiment, with the stock down about 29.7% over the past 90 days on a share price basis, even though the year-to-date share price return is 90.5% and the 1-year total shareholder return is 88.0%. Recent gains of...

Alibaba has rolled out its most powerful chip yet, doubling down on its bid to control the software and hardware that power its artificial-intelligence ambitions.

Alibaba has rolled out its most powerful chip yet, doubling down on its bid to control the software and hardware that power its artificial-intelligence ambitions.

AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE:AMC) announced a US$3.97b debt refinancing plan targeting its 2029 senior secured notes. The refinancing package includes a mix of new debt offerings and term loans intended to retire the existing 2029 securities. Management framed the initiative as a way to extend debt maturities and adjust AMC Entertainment's overall capital structure. This large US$3.97b refinancing push is important to weigh alongside the rest of our findings on AMC Entertainment. We have...

With new CEO John Ternus coming from the hardware side of the business, one of the first things the company announced was a major change to the iPhone, the iPhone Duo.

BEIJING, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Alibaba Group plans to train a new artificial intelligence model with 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters, Chief Executive Eddie Wu said on Tuesday, as the Chinese

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is rolling out what it calls China’s most powerful AI chip, an accelerator to compete with Nvidia Corp. and underpin a massive expansion of data center capacity in coming years.

The former PayPal and Intuit CEO’s new self-directed platform aims to democratize wealth management strategies for investors without requiring minimum balances.

VEEV expands its decade-long Amgen partnership with a global Vault CRM rollout, reinforcing enterprise adoption and commercial subscription growth.

Lucid partnered with Bolt to develop an autonomous-ready platform and deploy up to 25,000 self-driving Lucid EVs across major European cities, lifting shares almost 6% in Thursday's trading.