California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday pushing to implement guardrails on artificial intelligence in the state that’s the epicenter of the technology’s boom.

Amsted Industries is exploring a sale of cooling system provider Baltimore Aircoil Co., as strong demand for data center components pushes more owners to test the market, according to people familiar with the matter.

PWC CEO Paul Griggs says AI should be viewed as a business transformation, not simply a technology upgrade. He says companies most exposed to AI are seeing stronger productivity and hiring, while PWC itself is adding engineers, data scientists and machine-learning experts as its workforce evolves. (Source: Bloomberg)

Amazon.com Inc. is under scrutiny from the European Union for potentially imposing unfair restrictions on firms selling on its platform.

Yahoo Finance has ended a partnership with Polymarket in which the financial news platform used Polymarket data to create a prediction market hub on its website.

The makers of the hit game talk about its relatively smooth development

A liquefied natural gas tanker bringing fuel from the US to Europe suffered a systems failure that the crew reported as a suspected cyber attack, according to people familiar with the matter.

AI companies and old-economy refiner stocks have at least one thing in common: an explosive share-price rally.

Brookfield Corp. Chief Executive Officer Bruce Flatt said the artificial-intelligence race is already slowing because developers can’t build enough infrastructure to keep pace with what AI companies are demanding.

The rhetoric focused on the technology’s existential threat overshadows more correctable issues

EQT Infrastructure is backing a $2 billion small-battery investment to slash power costs for industrial consumers and help data centers get connected faster to the largest US electricity grid.

The two countries don’t even agree on AI’s biggest threats

SoftBank Group Corp. secured an additional $450 million to increase the size of an existing credit line to $6.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said, giving the Japanese conglomerate more financial flexibility as it expands investments in artificial intelligence.

Software stocks were basically left for dead earlier this year as investors bet that the business was doomed by the emergence of artificial intelligence. But it turns out that imminent demise was greatly exaggerated.

Sherry Paul, managing director and private wealth advisor at Morgan Stanley, says companies that fail to embrace AI risk being overtaken by competitors that use the technology to boost productivity and profitability. “We move into what I call the corporate extinction event,” Paul says on “Bloomberg Surveillance,” comparing the disruption to Netflix overtaking Blockbuster. This interview aired Sept. 17, 2026. (Source: Bloomberg)

A global agency for artificial intelligence would be a positive development, Irish Finance Minister Simon Harris said.

The global debate over artificial intelligence risks entered a new phase this week amid clashing views from tech executives over whether frontier labs should slow the development of the technology. Leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Google DeepMind put forward the need for self-regulation checks on growth that give AI models more control. Meanwhile, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta said they're developing tools to check, control and regulate AI risks as US President Donald Trump called the alerts a "hoax". The call for caution saw a rotation out of tech stocks at the start of the week as investors questioned whether there's a need to reprice the pace of the booming AI buildout. (Source: Bloomberg)

SoftBank Group Corp. is closing out the week with nearly $21 billion in potential fresh borrowings as it builds out its artificial intelligence financing capacity. It’s also looking to raise another $10 billion to $20 billion next week in a separate jumbo bond deal.

Huawei is accelerating the debut of its next-generation AI chip by several months, aiming to replace Nvidia in China and compete on the global stage. The Ascend 960DT chip will now be launched in the first quarter of 2027. Another variant of the new series, dubbed 960PR, will be delivered in the third quarter. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Shares of Chinese robotics‑component suppliers climbed after a local report said Tesla Inc. teams had arrived in the country to audit suppliers and place additional orders to boost production of its Optimus humanoid model.