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U.S. 10-Year Treasury Yield Falls to Near One-Month Lows
The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury note fell on Tuesday, hovering near one-month lows, following weaker housing data while investors also continued to assess persistent inflationary pressures ahead of the Fed's interest rate decision next week. Housing starts fell 5.2% in September, while pending home sales dropped to a record low, reflecting the continued strain of elevated mortgage rates on housing demand. The Fed is widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged next week, while markets anticipate a 25 basis point rate hike in December. Meanwhile, crude oil prices moved lower and stocks turned higher following an unconfirmed report from Qatari newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Qatar and Pakistan presented a mediation proposal to address the demands of the U.S. and Iran.Get caught up quickly on the top news and calls moving stocks with these five Top Five lists.1. STOCK NEWS:General Motorsreported better-than-expected Q3 sales and earnings and approved a new $20B share repurchase planGE Aerospace posted a "beat and raise" Q3 reportSalesforceagreed to acquire Brazefor $5.66B in enterprise value, or $47.50 per share in cashByteDance, Alibabaand Tencenthave ordered over 3M NvidiaRTX PRO 5500 graphics cards for over $35B, Reuters reportsIndustrial conglomerate 3Mlifted its annual profit forecast as cost-control initiatives and higher prices support margins2. WALL STREET CALLS:Loop Capital downgraded Appleto Hold on iPhone concernsAkamaiupgraded to Strong Buy at Raymond James following recent pullbackBarclays downgraded NuScale Powerto Underweight on commercial delaysBlackRockupgraded to Buy at TD CowenJefferies downgraded Elancoand Zoetisto Hold3. AROUND THE WEB:NRx Pharmaceuticalsis advancing Ketafree, a preservative-free ketamine formulation, and is seeking FDA approval while arguing that benzethonium chloride, a preservative used in most ketamine products, poses health risks, a claim it has not substantiated with evidence, NY Times saysTelesat'screditors have proposed a C$3.2B deal to help the company pay down a coming debt maturity and avert a default, WSJ reportsAustralia is set to sue Meta'sFacebook, TikTok, as well as other major digital platforms for not complying with the country's social media ban for children under 16, Bloomberg saysAlphabet'sWaymo, which currently operates about 4,000 cars, is looking to use the $5B it has recently borrowed to expand its fleet to 8,000 vehicles by the end of 2026 and grow that number to 20,000 by the end of 2027, Semafor reportsNetflixis overhauling its creative leadership in hopes of getting domestic audiences to watch more of its content, WSJ reports4. MOVERS:Myriad Genetics (MYRD) gains after announcing it will sell its Prenatal Health testing business to LabcorpHertzincreases after announcing Oro Mobility secured an $80M strategic equity investment from a consortium of investorsEquifaxhigher after reporting Q3 results, providing guidance for Q4, and narrowing its outlook for FY26Borr Drillinglower after Fearnley downgraded the stock to HoldBaxterfalls after the FDA issued a warning letter following an inspection of its facility5. EARNINGS/GUIDANCE:RTXreported Q3 results and raised its guidance for FY26Krogerbacked its guidance for FY26Ally Financialreported Q3 results, with EPS and revenue beating consensusValmontreported Q3 results and increased its outlook for FY26, with CEO Avner Applbaum commenting this was "another quarter of sales and earnings growth"Genuine Partsreported Q3 results and narrowed its guidance for FY26INDEXES:Near midday, the Dow was up 513.06, or 0.99%, to 52,479.09, the Nasdaq was up 76.22, or 0.29%, to 26,507.11, and the S&P 500 was up 35.46, or 0.46%, to 7,726.19.
Meta Launches Muse Spark Open, First Desktop AI Model
Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the space with this daily recap compiled by The Fly.MUSE SPARK OPEN:Meta Platformsannounced that Muse Spark Open is available today and brings leading agentic capabilities to users desktop for the first time on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios. The company is releasing the weights for Muse Spark Open, what Meta calls "the most capable US open-weight model to date." Muse Spark Open is a natively multimodal model with 816B total parameters and a 1M-token context window. Muse Spark Open is the first model in its class to run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework. Muse Spark Open is available today through API platforms at Baseten, Fireworks AI, Groq, Modal, Nebius, OpenRouter and Together AI. Model weights are available for download on Amazon SageMaker AI, Google Cloud Model Garden, Hugging Face, and Microsoft Foundry Models. It runs on leading inference engines like SGLang, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Hugging Face Transformers, Apple MLX, llama.cpp, and Unsloth with optimizations for AMD, Apple, Intel, and Nvidiasilicon. Developers can easily further customize the model using the PyTorch framework.SAFETY:NvidiaCEO Jensen Huang said the chipmaker "absolutely must" work with Chinese AI companies on monitoring risks, telling CNBC that AI is "potentially dangerous," and that he has ongoing "dialogues" with researchers in China, Kai Nicol-Schwarz. "We absolutely should work with each other so that we advance the technology safely," he told CNBC.BEE FRONTIER, ECLIPSE:Amazonis introducing two new AI products from Bee: Bee Frontier, the next generation of its AI wearable, and Bee Eclipse, an all-new design that attaches magnetically to your phone. Bee Frontier is personal AI users can wear on their wrist or clip on to clothes. Bee Eclipse is a new addition to the Bee lineup, giving customers more options beyond a wearable. It's a slim, lightweight device about the size of a credit card that attaches to the back of your phone magnetically. "Bee Eclipse works like Bee Frontier, helping you turn conversations into useful summaries, insights, and to-dos," the company explained. In addition to a new generation of hardware, Bee is introducing the ability to connect to Alexa+ and Amazon.com. By connecting Bee to Alexa+, users can get hands-free access to their summaries, insights, and to-dos, so instead of pulling out their phone, users ask Alexa for a meeting summary, check their to-dos, or pull up the name of the book their friend suggested. Bee Frontier is available now for $74.99 in Onyx, Lavender, and Sage at Amazon.com. Bee Eclipse will be available soon, starting at $99.99 in Silver, Midnight, Honey, and Blush.QUANTUM AI:Google Quantum AIsaid in a blog post that it has "demonstratively opened up a key bottleneck in quantum computing." The company explained, "We've shown that 'magic state cultivation' works in practice on our Willow processor, reducing errors about 40x compared to without it. This breakthrough, published today in Science, is a crucial step towards scaling up quantum computing to practical use." Stocks in the quantum computing space include IonQ, D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, Quantum Computingand Xanadu Quantum.SPACE AI SANDBOX:Perplexity has open-sourced its SPACE AI sandbox to contain rogue agents, securing distribution partnerships with CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe as the industry increasingly emphasizes security guardrails alongside model alignment, Semafor's Reed Albergotti. "A lot of companies are thinking about how to build secure AI agents, and in many cases they hit a wall," said Zibi Braniecki, a member of the technical staff at Perplexity, in an interview with Semafor. "We have a solution." Publicly traded companies in the cybersecurity space include Check Point (CHKP), CrowdStrike, CyberArk, F5, Fortinet, Gen Digital, Okta, Palo Alto Networksand Qualys.
Applied Intuition Valued at $30B, Plans to Raise Over $1B
The week's largest private market raises came from TypeSafe AI and Oratomic as investors poured money into next generation AI safety systems and fault tolerant quantum hardware.This week's private company news:Autonomous vehicle software startup Applied Intuition has received new investment offers valuing the company at $30B or more, doubling its previous valuation of $15B from June 2025, The Information's Stephanie Palazzolo. The offers are likely to encourage the company to raise at least $1B in the next few months, sources said.Some of the biggest capital raises by private companies this week include:TypeSafe AI– The company announced its Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Sequoia Capital, existing investor DCVC, and several angel investors also participating. The financing values TypeSafe at $7.5B, and Andreessen Horowitz general partner Martin Casado will join its board. Publicly-traded companies operating in the same space include Microsoft, Alphabet, and IBM.Oratomic– The company whose mission is to build the first fault-tolerant quantum computers announced that it has raised a $475M Series B round. Publicly-traded companies operating in the same space include IonQ, Rigetti Computing, and D-Wave Quantum.SignSplit PBC– The fast-growing technology company emerged from stealth with a $400M strategic seed round. The financing commitment, which values SignSplit at $1B, combines capital with a multi-year package of strategic resources to support SignSplit's global rollout. Publicly-traded companies operating in the same space include Cisco, Akamai, and Cloudflare.Vinci– The company announced a $250M Series B co-led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, with participation from AMD Ventures, Eclipse, Khosla Ventures, Madrona and others, valuing the company at $1.5B. Vinci is building an AI-native computational platform designed to fundamentally expand what hardware engineers can create. Publicly-traded companies operating in the same space include Synopsys, Cadence, and Ansys.Atomic Machines– The company announced that it has raised $250M. Publicly-traded companies operating in the same space include Applied Materials, Lam Research, and ASML.Unicorns to watch this week:ReliaQuest– The company remains one of the most prominent private players in AI driven security operations, with its valuation hovering around $3.4B as demand for unified threat detection platforms accelerates. Publicly-traded companies operating in the same space include Okta, Zscaler, and Crowdstrike.MaintainX– The company continues its climb in manufacturing‑tech after recently surpassing the $2.5B valuation mark, riding strong enterprise adoption of its digital maintenance and workflow platform. Publicly-traded companies operating in the same space include Fortive, ServiceNow, and ABM Industries.Enveda Biosciences– The company solidified its unicorn status with a $150M Series D, advancing its machine‑learning platform for discovering therapeutics from natural compounds. Enveda remains one of the most closely watched AI‑native drug‑discovery startups. Publicly-traded companies operating in the same space include Amgen, Bristol-Myers, and Gilead.Underdog Fantasy– Valued around $1.3B, the company continues to scale its sports gaming and pick'em platform amid rising engagement and regulatory expansion across U.S. markets. Publicly-traded companies operating in the same space include DraftKings, Flutter Entertainment, and MGM Resorts.TRM Labs– The blockchain intelligence and analytics platform used by crypto firms and regulators to investigate fraud and financial crime sits near the $1B valuation mark. Publicly-traded companies operating in the same space include Coinbase, Block, and Marathon Digital.IPOs to watch:FireFly Robotics– The company, which designs and manufactures autonomous, all-electric robotic systems for turf and grounds environments, announced it has publicly filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed public direct listing of its common stock. The company is not selling any shares and will not receive any proceeds in the direct listing.Anthropic– The company is now planning to hold its IPO in November, which is later than the October listing expected by investors, The Wall Street Journal's Corrie Driebusch, Anissa Gardizy, and Kate Clark, citing people familiar with the matter. The report states that a delayed listing would allow the company to share its Q3 results and show its strong competitive position. Anthropic also intends to meet with investors in the coming days, and the meetings are expected to help the company and its bankers gauge investor appetite for the offering, WSJ noted.Nscale Limited– The company has filed with the SEC for an initial public offering of its ordinary shares. The company intends to apply to list its ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "NSCL". Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley are listed as the lead bookrunners.Altera Corporation– Altera announced that its parent company has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed public offering of its common stock. "The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. The proposed public offering remains subject to the completion of the SEC review process, as well as market and other conditions," Altera stated. Altera, which provides high-performance, programmable compute and connectivity solutions, is backed by Silver Lake and Intel.Brooks Automation– The company announced that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. The initial public offering is expected to take place after the SEC completes its review process, subject to market and other conditions."Private Markets" is The Fly's recurring series of stories on the latest moves in the private sector, largest unicorn companies and initial public offerings to watch. Fly subscribers, add $PRIVATE to your portfolio for alerts on breaking news in the startup and venture capital space.
Perplexity Opens SPACE AI Sandbox, Cybersecurity Stocks Drop
Shares of cybersecurity companies are moving lower after Semafor's Reed Albergotti reported that Perplexity is giving away SPACE, its AI sandbox used to combat rogue AI agents. SPACE is now an open source project, allowing outside developers to use the tool, and Perplexity has lined up CoreWeave (CRWV), Akamai (AKAM), and Crusoe to offer SPACE to customers, according to the report. Other companies like Nvidia (NVDA) have also released open-source security tools, such as Nvidia OpenShell, which runs AI agents in a sandbox and limits what they can reach, Albergotti says. Publicly traded companies in the space include Check Point (CHKP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), CyberArk (CYBR), F5 (FFIV), Fortinet (FTNT), Gen Digital (GEN), Okta (OKTA), Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and Qualys (QLYS).
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