Closing Time: He pitched Xi on Super Intelligence
Independent reports Trump said Xi seemed to like renaming AI “super intelligence.”
Independent reports Trump said Friday that Xi seemed to like renaming AI “super intelligence,” after Thursday’s White House state dinner with Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos — even as Xi publicly stressed keeping AI under human control.
TechCrunch reports Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve special founder shares that would give Dario Amodei and his six co-founders 50.1% voting control ahead of an IPO, even though the seven own about 2% each economically.
Reuters reports Microsoft rolled out a Copilot redesign with a natural-language Code tool and Autopilot, a directory-listed digital coworker with permissions and cost controls, as it pushes the assistant beyond chat.
Semafor reports the White House looks isolated in rejecting global AI ground rules after UN speeches and the Xi meetings — even as frontier CEOs push coordinated “AI pacing” and some Senate Republicans ask for national-security briefings.
Today’s tape — biggest AI/tech winners and losers from Friday’s cash session among the names we track:
Historic market snapshot — September 25, 2026 (day % change as of that edition; not live)
Biggest winners
| Ticker | Name | Price | Day |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELL | Dell | 562.87 | +5.01% |
| DDOG | Datadog | 268.13 | +4.36% |
| SMCI | Super Micro | 43.26 | +4.22% |
| QCOM | Qualcomm | 201.97 | +3.97% |
| MSFT | Microsoft | 516.17 | +3.66% |
Biggest losers
| Ticker | Name | Price | Day |
|---|---|---|---|
| S | SentinelOne | 22.38 | -6.69% |
| PANW | Palo Alto Networks | 374.74 | -3.89% |
| INTC | Intel | 123.00 | -3.45% |
| META | Meta | 751.66 | -3.33% |
| CRWD | CrowdStrike | 252.13 | -2.90% |
Prices are as of Friday’s close, September 25, 2026. Market data is a snapshot, not live.
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