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Shopify plans to allow Meta’s personal AI agent to complete purchases on behalf of users with the e-commerce platform’s roster of stores.

A rally in tech stocks led stocks to a strong start to the week. The Nasdaq Composite index gained 2.3%, its best session since early August. Investors will be looking to see whether President Trump meets with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the U.N. gathering beginning this week.

Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Bailey Lipschultz, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec.

Meta Platforms investors are feeling upbeat after the company’s buzzy rollout of its personal AI agent, Muse. Shares in Meta’s stock jumped more than 11% Monday. The company two weeks ago released the easy-to-use AI assistant, and is seeing early signs of success.

Shares of AMD, Arm and Intel all jumped as optimism over growing demand for CPUs sent chip stocks higher.

Investors face a busy week of diplomatic developments, technology announcements and economic releases, with talks between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping among the main events on the calendar. Artificial intelligence will also attract attention as Meta Platforms prepares for its Connect conference and world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

OpenAI's Astra has overtaken Anthropic on developer spend for the first time in over two and a half years

By Johann M Cherian and Tharuniyaa Lakshmi Sep 21 (Reuters) - US stock futures were higher on Monday, driven by gains in AI shares as Treasury yields took a beating and oil slid 2% to hit an 11-day

A state visit from Chinese leader Xi Jinping, conferences from Meta and Qualcomm, and a lot of FedSpeak form the last full week of September.

Stocks have largely powered through a wall of worry this month, though rising bond yields, geopolitical risk in the Middle East, and AI jitters have given investors reason to pause

Andrew Obin’s team came back from a key Washington conference with a new risk investors need to watch.

Hyderabad has spent decades building the talent, infrastructure and business climate to compete with Bangalore, attracting major tech firms while becoming a hub for life sciences. But AI now threatens some of the lower-cost IT work that helped fuel its rise. The test is whether Hyderabad can use its talent base to move from supporting global innovation to creating more of its own. This version corrects a map of India.

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Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Inc., a recent IPO, broke out past a buy point Friday in a rocky market.  The hedge fund billionaire's publicly traded investment vehicle, Pershing Square Inc., rallied an impressive 27% for the week after bullish analyst upgrades.

Investing.com -- Artificial intelligence infrastructure has become a politically charged issue ahead of the November U.S. midterm elections, but growing opposition to data centers has yet to materially weaken the construction pipeline, according to Citi.

The U.K.-based company didn’t say how many shares it would offer, or at what price, but intends to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NSCL.

AI Boom Is Supercharging S&P 500 Profits. Goldman Sachs Warns the Boost Won't Last

The first junk-bond offering for a data center tied to Meta Platforms Inc. attracted demand more than four times the deal’s size, with juicy yields helping to lure investors.

Aptos SVP Ash Pampati warns the quantum threat is closer than people think. Aptos already has a post-quantum upgrade accepted and ready to go.

The AI agent startup is in talks with IDG Capital, Boyu Capital, and battery maker CATL at a roughly $4 billion valuation

Karandeep Anand, head of Character.AI, will report directly to Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro, who has made tech a focus.

Long before Pope Leo voiced concerns about AI, tech leaders actually warned about 'AI extinction risks.' What's at stake now that fears are spreading.

Morning Brief host Julie Hyman sits down with Yahoo Finance Breaking Business News Reporter Jake Conley and Washington Crossing Advisors senior portfolio manager Chad Morganlander to discuss the latest updates with the New York Times's (NYT) lawsuit against OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) and Microsoft (MSFT).

EXCLUSIVE: The company is seeking to raise capital in a funding round that could value it at around $4 billion, according to sources.

Trump has called AI risks a hoax while Amodei, Altman and Musk want a slowdown

Last week, Meta rolled out Muse, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s “personal AI agent built for everyone.” In Meta’s telling, it also democratizes AI. Zuckerberg first described his vision for “personal superintelligence” last year and previewed Muse in an August essay where he spoke of “putting power in people’s hands to pursue their own aspirations.”

Sept 18 (Reuters) - Futures tracking the Nasdaq 100 led Wall Street higher on Friday, putting the tech-heavy index on course for weekly gains as a drop in oil prices tempered inflation concerns.

SoftBank Group Corp. has increased its margin loan backed by shares of its chip unit Arm Holdings Plc by $5 billion to $25 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, as the conglomerate finds ways to fund its expanding investments in artificial intelligence.

The global debate over artificial intelligence risks entered a new phase this week amid clashing views from tech executives over whether frontier labs should slow the development of the technology. Leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Google DeepMind put forward the need for self-regulation checks on growth that give AI models more control. Meanwhile, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta said they're developing tools to check, control and regulate AI risks as US President Donald Trump called the alerts a "hoax". The call for caution saw a rotation out of tech stocks at the start of the week as investors questioned whether there's a need to reprice the pace of the booming AI buildout.

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