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  1. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
  2. Cybersecurity and cloud computing firm Akamai reported first-quarter earnings on Thursday and saw its cloud infrastructure business grow 40% year-on-year.
  3. The viral personal assistant OpenClaw has triggered a rush among Big Tech to build agentic tools.
  4. While hardware sales took a hit in Sony's fourth-quarter, strong revenue from its image sensing and music businesses offset the dip.
  5. Nintendo said the price of the Switch 2 in the U.S. will rise from $449.99 to $499.99. In Japan, Nintendo will hike the price from 49,980 yen to 59,980 yen.
  6. A succession of strong earnings seasons since then has allowed tech stocks to "grow into" their stock prices.
  7. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted his company's partnership with Corning as an opportunity to reinvest in American manufacturing.
  8. The investment story for Corning looks even sweeter in the wake of Jim Cramer's sit-down with CEO Wendell Weeks.
  9. CNBC's Jim Cramer said he's confident in the power of the artificial intelligence boom to keep driving stocks higher, despite short pullbacks.
  10. The cloud provider announced it is laying off 20% of its workforce as agentic artificial intelligence "fundamentally changes" the company's work.