MarketCatalyst$MSFT shares popped after Microsoft unveiled its biggest Copilot overhaul yet, adding Home, Code, Autopilot, Office integration, and new cost-management tools as it pushes the assistant to become a full workplace AI hub.
Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a governance structure giving CEO Dario Amodei and six co-founders 50.1% voting power on most corporate matters ahead of a planned IPO that may now slip past the November midterms.
Stocks pared losses Thursday as revived hopes for a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz offset pressure from rising Treasury yields, with Meta and Eli Lilly leading gains while Oracle and AI-trade names weighed on the tape.
Akamai shares jumped nearly 17% after hours after announcing a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Anthropic, complete with an equity warrant and up to $9 billion in potential expansion.
IonQ shares rose 12% after testing a real-time quantum error decoder, the same day the company announced deployment deals with Florida International University and NVIDIA's NVAQC for its new Superion 256 system.
Oracle shares fell 2.8% after sending a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a 1,400-acre New Mexico data-center campus, while primary energy provider Bloom Energy dropped nearly 6% pre-market.