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Apple reclaimed the world’s highest market capitalization on Friday as its shares rose above $351. The company was valued at about $5.12 trillion on the launch day of its $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo.
Claude developer Anthropic plans to commit 5% of its shares to a public-benefit fund, subject to shareholder approval. The stake was worth about $48bn at the company’s May valuation, while an IPO is planned for November.
Donald Trump falsely claimed at a rally in north Georgia that Senator Jon Ossoff’s election was illegitimate. Ossoff faces Congressman Mike Collins in November and leads his Republican rival by nine points in most recent polling.
Apple ended the trading day with a $5.01 trillion market capitalization, marking its first close above that threshold. Its shares rose 0.5% to $342.96, while most major technology companies finished lower.
Amazon unveiled its Alexa Tablet lineup this week, moving from a proprietary operating system to stock-style Android with Google Play support. The range includes three models priced from $229 to $499.
Apple shipped an estimated 5.9 million Macs in the third quarter of 2026, down 11.3% year over year, IDC's preliminary data shows. Its market share nevertheless rose to 9.5% as worldwide PC shipments fell 20.1%.
US stocks fell as oil prices fluctuated amid renewed fears of a war involving Iran. Oil initially rose on fresh concerns about Middle East supplies before declining on the possibility of releasing more reserves.
The euro fell after the Bank of France chief warned that France risked being “strangled by interest rates”. French government bonds rallied while Brent crude fell below $100 a barrel.
US inflation came in below expectations in August, reducing traders’ bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike as soon as October. LSEG data put the implied probability at about 35%, down from roughly 45%.
OpenAI unveiled “dots,” AI assistants designed to carry out tasks autonomously for users. The company delayed its latest model the previous day after safety issues emerged in internal testing.
Players have found Mister Graphed in World of Warcraft: Forever’s beta, inside the new Riverglades zone. The goblin sells rare materials and Gift of Galloping for 150 gold, granting a 10% mounted-speed increase for 15 days.
Kazakh businessman Timur Turlov, 38, has been elected FIDE president at the organisation’s assembly in Samarkand. He won the second round with 110 votes to Vadim Rosenstein’s 85, while Ukraine’s Chess Federation opposed his election and Mikhail Podolyak’s proposed role.
Apple shares briefly rose to $345.34 after the market opened, topping the previous intraday record of $344.57. They were trading at $341.80 at publication time, while the rally could not yet be attributed solely to the CEO change.
The Dutch central bank has moved 86 tonnes of gold reserves from the US and Canada to London, citing increasing geopolitical unrest. London’s share of the Netherlands’ holdings rose to 32.1%, while New York and Ottawa each fell to 18.5%.