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Higher interest rates threaten to prolong private equity’s record $349 billion backlog of “zombie funds,” making exits harder, squeezing fee income and potentially forcing some firms to shrink. The Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates on Wednesday will deepen problems in their portfolios from a generation of buyouts that are stuck. The bigger the logjam gets, the harder it will be to raise new funds, reducing the fee income private-equity firms rely on, a cycle that can spiral.

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.

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.

Executives at OpenAI and Microsoft acknowledged they could undermine their own content sources, according to a new filing in a New York Times copyright lawsuit.

Stocks climbed Thursday as the 10-year Treasury yield fell below 5% and oil prices eased, partially reversing Wednesday's Fed-driven losses

Here's a check of the markets in the first few minutes of trading.

Artificial intelligence has turned software development at Microsoft upside down, and the changes reflect how technology is accelerating a wholesale reconsideration of the way the entire company functions. On Thursday, Microsoft is releasing a playbook detailing how it is navigating the AI upheaval. It includes lessons that employees like Julia Gao, a 23-year-old software engineer, have had to learn quickly as their roles have radically changed in a matter of months.

Nebius stock popped after the cloud computing specialist announced price hikes of around 20% effective Oct. 1.

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Nokia shares were 6.3% higher—taking their year-to-date rise to nearly 70%—after it said it would partner with Microsoft to expand its data offering to telecommunications providers.

Morgan Stanley says the AI slowdown push changes nothing. It also banks almost every company doing the spending.

Federal agencies can sign contracts for Microsoft's new AI government tier starting October 1, but key features may not arrive until later. Whether that gap kills the deal before it starts reveals something uncomfortable about how Microsoft is betting on AI revenue.

The S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite were both up in late-morning trading Wednesday, while the Dow

The S&P 500 faces a critical test today as investors brace for what is shaping up to be the most consequential Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting of the year.

Are investors dying to invest in a technology that might literally kill them? After an Anthropic employee put the chances of AI doing that at more than 10%, economist Owen Lamont quipped that it was “like Robert Oppenheimer doing an IPO for the Manhattan Project in 1945.” Factoring human extinction into stock values is silly, so let’s hope for the best and just stick to stocks.

Microsoft stock cleared a cup base at a 466.32 buy point amid an earnings-fueled rally and is extended.

By Jayasree Prabhu Sept 15 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures slipped on Tuesday as higher crude oil prices, elevated Treasury yields and an uncertain outlook for AI demand kept investors at bay.

The global debate over AI safety is intensifying, as President Trump dismisses industry calls for a slowdown as a "conspiracy theory," and China brands fresh warnings about the tech "fearmongering." At the same time, Australia's cyber intelligence chief, Abigail Bradshaw, says the country needs an AI early warning system to guard against risks. Scientia Professor of AI at the University of New South Wales, Toby Walsh, joins "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" to discuss the outlook for AI regulation in Australia.

Plus, the 10-year Treasury yield hits 5%, and WSJ’s personal tech columnist shares how to make the most of iOS 27.

Palantir Technologies (PLTR) raised its 2026 revenue guidance in August, and the stock gained about 32% across the release. The easy read is that the market was paying for the bigger number. It was not. At the multiple the market was already paying, that raise is worth about $8 a share, and the tape handed over close to $40.

All three major US stock indexes were down in late-morning trading Monday, as major artificial intel

Monday morning, hours after public radio spent its morning walking through an open letter asking the AI industry to slow itself down, President Trump told CNBC the opposite: “We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world. And frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins, AI wins.” […]

Sept 14 (Reuters) - Large technology companies, including Palantir Technologies, Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton, could restrict or cease to use advanced AI models unless Anthropic and OpenAI guarantee

Leave it to Elon Musk to say, essentially, I've been right all along.

The benchmark US stock measures were tracking in the red before the opening bell Monday as traders a

South Korea's AI chip boom lifts GDP to 21.9% in H1 2026 but hides the biggest concentration risk since the 1970s.

Goldman Sachs says AI spending is propping up S&P 500 earnings growth, but that same statistic reveals a fragile dependency on a handful of buyers whose budgets could shift any quarter.

Anthropic just signed a compute bill so large it reshapes the math behind every NVIDIA forecast on Wall Street, and the number arriving ahead of the company's IPO raises a question Jensen Huang's own team has not fully answered yet.

Investing.com -- Chinese President Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit in New Delhi to promote Beijing’s open-source approach to artificial intelligence, seeking greater international influence over AI development as competition with the U.S. intensifies, according to Bloomberg.

Elon Musk recently praised a specific GPU stock during SpaceX's earnings call.