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The rapid adoption of the new artificial-intelligence agent threatens to disrupt wealth managers, brokerages and insurers.

US equity indexes were mixed Tuesday as crude oil prices fell and economic data pointed to weaker ma

Meta Platforms' (META) new AI agent Muse is teaming up with Shopify (SHOP) to help and enable consumers to complete online purchases. Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley breaks down the value this represents for Meta.

Shares of major U.S. lenders fell on Tuesday as investors rotated away from the sector and into technology stocks.

PayPal customers can now use Meta’s Muse artificial-intelligence consumer agent to shop and check out, PayPal said Tuesday. Shares of PayPal rose 0.5% to $52.90 after the announcement. Meta Platforms stock fell 0.4% to $738.53.

AI agents are changing where chip spending is flowing.

Early adoption is putting Musk's enterprise AI push in focus

Amazon has blocked Muse and other third-party AI shopping agents from its platform.

Evercore's top analyst just named Meta his number one pick with a bold price target, but his own timeline for free cash flow recovery quietly signals how much has to go right before the bull case actually pays off.

Persistent AI agents create orchestration work, but Meta has disclosed no Intel deployment.

The real battle is over who controls online shopping

In an interview with CNBC, Ives said Meta’s roughly 3.5 billion users across its platforms give it a significant existing audience for consumer AI products.

Should investors bet more on the AI infrastructure bottlenecks than on other tech trends, such as social media? Today's Market Hang panel consists of Host Turney Duff, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi, Defiance ETFs CIO Sylvia Jablonski, Interactive Brokers chief strategist Steve Sosnick, and Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management CEO Ross Gerber.

The news that Amazon (AMZN) is banning AI agents from its digital storefront should have absolutely ruined Meta Platforms (META)’s 11% rally yesterday. Instead, the stock shrugged it off – and Elon Musk shows exactly why.

Tuesday’s selloff echoes the garden-variety selloffs earlier this year, driven by anxiety over AI displacing traditional industries.

The artificial-intelligence trade is ripping once again, with tech stocks cresting fresh all-time highs, Wall Street bosses touting the scale of the investment race, and key players in the ecosystem downplaying existential risks from the world’s most important technology. Comments from JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon on AI spending, pushback from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI risks, and surge in popularity of Meta Platform new AI agent Muse have all played a role in the tech resurgence. “There were lots worrying investors last week, and there still are,” said Ed Yardeni, founder and CEO of Yardeni Research.

Meta Platforms (META) stock is trying to hold onto gains from its latest rally fueled by the release of its new Muse AI chatbot. Is this another big moment for the Big Tech company or are investors still wary of trust concerns? Today's Market Hang panel consists of Host Turney Duff, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi, Defiance ETFs CIO Sylvia Jablonski, Interactive Brokers chief strategist Steve Sosnick, and Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management CEO Ross Gerber.

Investors watch for developments in the Middle East as rally slows on further oil uncertainty, today, Sept. 22, 2026.

SpaceXAI's newly launched Grok Bot has built early traction in the enterprise market, reaching over 400,000 weekly users, even as rival consumer tool Meta Muse surges to the top of mobile app charts.

Shopify stock and shares in Twilio gained amid expected upside from Meta Platform's rollout of "Muse," an AI personal assistant.

Meta Platforms Inc.'s new artificial intelligence agent, Muse, is ranked the No. 1 free app on the US Apple Inc. iOS App and Google Play stores.Muse was downloaded more than 902,000 times in the six days after Meta introduced it on Sept. 8, and is available for people 18 years and older. Bloomberg's Mandeep Singh joins to discuss.

The Meta tie-up puts PayPal alongside Shopify and Stripe in Muse’s growing commerce ecosystem as the AI agent rapidly builds a consumer audience.

Meta spent over $130 billion on infrastructure with nothing to show investors beyond ad revenue, until two new products shipped this month and changed the conversation entirely.

Marvell, AMD, and Broadcom are all sitting above Wall Street's consensus targets right now, yet one bold analyst sees each of them with meaningful room left to run before 2027 ends.

Early demand is real; paid adoption and merchant access decide whether popularity becomes revenue.

The e-commerce giant — which is no stranger to the opt-out approach of agentic purchases — said it was not given advance notice Muse would access its shop.

Monthly jobs reports will take on greater weight as AI displaces workers.

TJX is leaning on digital and social media engagement, fresh online assortments and gifting initiatives to help drive repeat store visits.

Alibaba (BABA) unveiled its newest artificial intelligence chip on Tuesday along with other updates

Shopify Inc (TSX:SH., NYSE:SHOP), the Canadian e-commerce platform, rose about 8% in early Tuesday trading after Meta Platforms integrated its Muse artificial intelligence (AI) agent with Shopify's Shop Pay checkout system. The agreement connects Meta's consumer-facing AI technology with...