MarketCatalystA five-year-old startup that started as a Bitcoin mining operation just raised $668 million with Nvidia as an investor — and it's now processing a trillion AI tokens a day, 20 times more than six months ago.
August core inflation cooled to 3.01%, well below forecasts, sending stock futures higher and yields lower — a surprise strong enough to override an ADP jobs beat and an upward GDP revision, and to shift Fed odds toward holding rates steady in October.
Robinhood is bringing AI trading agents directly into its app, paired with an "Agent Apps" marketplace of premium data from 11 providers — building on a developer program that's already logged 150,000 agentic accounts and 30 million tool calls a day.
Robinhood used its HOOD Summit to unveil perpetual futures, expanded trading hours, 4x margin, earnings-trading contracts, and new Legend and Social features — a bid to win over active traders with tools once reserved for professional platforms.
Applied Materials says KIOXIA is joining its $5 billion EPIC Center to co-develop next-generation memory technology for AI, targeting higher-density chips and faster paths to commercial production, though no launch date or performance target was given.
The 30-year Treasury yield touched 5.62% intraday, its highest since 2002, before fading on a dovish signal from Fed voter John Williams — while stocks split along rate-sensitivity lines and Trump hosted tech CEOs to talk AI policy.