U.S. stock futures rose Monday as investors returned to beaten-down AI and chip names after Friday's selloff. The rebound reopened a debate over whether the AI boom is a durable earnings story or a stretched trade priced for perfection.
AI assistants are letting non-programmers build and ship music software in days, flooding the market with cheap plugins and alarming established developers over quality, security and copyright.
Trump's approval has fallen to 33% in a new Washington Post-ABC survey, with 66% of Americans saying he is using the presidency for personal gain, including 34% of Republicans.
Zelenskyy said the US did not alert Kyiv before Sunday's 11 p.m. missile barrage on power plants, reviving concerns that Washington is leveraging intelligence to push Ukraine toward negotiations.
Semiconductor and AI shares plunged across global markets after U.S. inflation accelerated to 3.7% in September, intensifying worries about interest rates and heavy borrowing across the AI sector.
President Trump accused Sen. John Cornyn and strategist Karl Rove of sabotaging Ken Paxton's Senate bid in Texas, where polls show Democrat James Talarico narrowly ahead. A GOP loss would be the first in a Texas Senate race since 1988.
CoreWeave's stock, bonds and credit default swaps slid this week on concerns about the AI cloud provider's debt load. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly defended the company as a broader debate opens over the financing of the AI boom.
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