Pre-market US stocks: Most of the Magnificent Seven advanced, with Akamai climbing 20% after signing a $11.6 billion deal with Anthropic.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), most U.S. tech majors rose in pre-market trading: Tesla gained 1.1%, Nvidia 0.7%, Amazon 0.6%, Alphabet 0.4%, Apple 0.1%, while Microsoft was flat and Meta fell 0.5%. In individual stocks, Akamai Technologies jumped 20% after announcing a 7-year, $11.6 billion deal with Anthropic to provide computing power. Atlas Energy rose 6.9% following its announcement of a $340.5 million equipment purchase agreement for power projects with Wyoming Machinery Company, plus a separate 328-megawatt power deal between the two sides. People Inc. climbed 9.9% amid market reports that MGM Resorts is in talks to acquire the media company controlled by Barry Diller. On the downside, Comcast dropped 1.9% after KeyBanc cut its rating from "Sector Weight" to "Underweight"; Nike fell 2% as Bank of America lowered its rating from "Neutral" to "Underperform" and pushed back its sales recovery forecast to fiscal 2028; Twilio declined 3.5% following HSBC’s downgrade of its rating from "Hold" to "Underweight"; Zscaler slipped 3.4% after announcing Ross Tackett’s appointment as Chief Revenue Officer, effective October 1.