The stock market fell as oil prices and Treasury yields soared, but rebounded Friday on the CPI inflation report. Apple, Oracle, Meta were key movers.

Florida is suing Netflix for billions, accusing the streaming giant of secretly tracking children for advertisers while publicly promising families a safe alternative to social media surveillance. The outcome could unravel the economics powering Netflix's fastest-growing business.

Meta's new AI agent Muse shot to third on the US App Store in two days, but the feature that makes it genuinely useful is the same one giving analysts pause: it needs your inbox, your accounts, and possibly your passwords to work.

Alphabet and Meta both dropped Q2 earnings within days of each other, but the results sent these two AI giants down sharply different paths. One trades at a discount despite explosive cloud growth, while the other faces a balance sheet doing heavier lifting than investors may realize.

Meta Platforms Inc. has been speaking to bond investors in Europe as part of a non-deal roadshow for at least a week as hyperscalers look to tap different global debt markets to fund the AI boom.