Today: 26 June 2026
Dow ends higher; Nasdaq drifts as AI stocks slip, oil falls

Dow Jones (INDEXDJX:.DJI) spikes 700 points as price-weighted stocks outpace tech slide

Dow soars 763.79 points as Caterpillar, Goldman Sachs, and Honeywell drive gains, offsetting Apple’s 4.8% drop; investors brace for Alphabet to replace Verizon in the Dow on June 29, a move set to shift index weightings for funds tracking the price-weighted average.

June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said GPT-5 will launch in summer 2025, claiming major improvements over GPT-4. Midjourney released its first text-to-video system, Model V1, in June 2025. Meta delayed LLaMA 4 Behemoth to late 2025 due to performance issues. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device, running vision-language-action AI entirely on robots.

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Sadot Group (NASDAQ:SDOT) surges with trading volume more than 14x implied share base

Sadot Group (NASDAQ:SDOT) surges with trading volume more than 14x implied share base

Sadot Group (NASDAQ:SDOT) soared 74.6% to $10.79 on volume of 17.7 million shares—about 15 times its post-reverse-split share base—after recent filings showed a tiny common float, new preferred-stock obligations, a large real estate option, no Q1 commodity sales, a $57.8M working-capital deficit, and defaulted debt, raising substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
Dow trades stable close to 52,000; Alphabet change stirs talk on price weighting

Dow trades stable close to 52,000; Alphabet change stirs talk on price weighting

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) will replace Verizon in the Dow before Monday’s open, boosting the index’s exposure to high-priced tech stocks after S&P Dow Jones Indices said Verizon’s low share price gave it minimal weight; no mechanical index jump is expected at the open.
US stocks mixed, Micron AI memory rally can’t lift Nasdaq

US stocks: Wall Street splits as chips drop but megacap platforms hold indexes

iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) plunged 4.67% while S&P 500 was nearly flat, as chipmakers like Nvidia, Micron, and AMD fell sharply amid concerns over memory supply costs and inflation, with Micron dropping 4.17% after a previous surge and ON Semiconductor tumbling 20.97% on a $7 billion Synaptics acquisition.
BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) jumps after QNX outlook nudge, eyes on cash flow

BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) stock watches QNX beat with AI premium in play after $1B re-rate

BlackBerry surged to a $6.06 billion market cap after QNX revenue jumped 26% and fiscal 2027 revenue guidance rose by $10 million, but premarket shares slipped 2.8% after the rally; analysts lifted targets, citing faster operating leverage and rising QNX growth, while the company’s first cash-positive Q1 in nine years and a $1 billion QNX royalty backlog highlight investor focus on embedded-AI potential.
SoFi (NASDAQ:SOFI) holds near $17 as AI trading faces Russell volume test

SoFi (NASDAQ:SOFI) holds near $17 as AI trading faces Russell volume test

SoFi shares hovered near $17.30 premarket, about 47% below last year’s high, as investors shrugged off this week’s AI investing platform launch and focused on Friday’s Russell index reconstitution, which could drive major trading volume and volatility, with $12.2 trillion tracking FTSE Russell indexes and nearly $150 billion in trades expected during the reshuffle, according to Reuters and lseg.com.
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