David Paul Morris / Bloomberg / Getty Images Lyft shares soared after Google’s Waymo announced an expanded partnership to bring robotaxi service to Nashville starting next year, while shares of rival Uber slumped. Key Takeaways Major U.S. equities indexes were mixed at midday ahead of a highly anticipated decision on interest rates from the Federal Reserve. Shares of Workday surged after activist investor Elliott Investment Management announced a $2 billion stake. Nvidia shares slipped following a re ...

By Purvi Agarwal and Sukriti Gupta (Reuters) - Wall Street futures were flat to slightly lower on Wednesday, as markets were guarded ahead of a widely anticipated interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve later in the day, and Nvidia dipped after a report Chinese tech firms might stop buying its chips. The U.S. central bank is expected to reduce borrowing costs by at least 25 basis points at 2 p.m. ET, a move priced in by investors after a series of economic indicators indicated a weakening jobs market. ...

Tom Yeung here with your Sunday Digest. On Wednesday, OpenAI launched a new AI image generator for ChatGPT. The system has noticeably few guardrails. Users can ask it to make photorealistic images of celebrities… edit existing images… even trick it into violating copyright laws. Social media feeds have become flooded with AI- generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the popular Japanese animation studio behind films like Spirited Away. Source OpenAI's newfound "creative freedom," as its CEO Sam Altman ...