In stocks, Nvidia more than 1% rose as investors await Alphabet GOOGL earnings at market close. Shares also rose following a Wall Street Journal report that Tesla TSLA Chief Executive Elon Musk's xAI startup is looking to raise up to $12 billion to buy Nvidia chips to train xAI's Grok chatbot.

Stock futures are higher Wednesday as investors welcome news that the U.S. reached a trade agreement with Japan and prepare for the release of quarterly results from major technology companies.

Stock sales by top officials clustered before Trump's major tariff announcements, according to a USA TODAY analysis of transaction forms.

Short squeezes have been a key piece of the stock market rally as short sellers have lost just shy of $355 billion since the market bottom on April 8, according to data from S3 Partners.

In tandem with a presidential speech on Wednesday, the Trump administration is set to roll out its “AI Action Plan,” and new executive orders on AI are expected.

Ed Mills, Raymond James Washington policy analyst, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss President Trump's AI policy blueprint and the impact of Trump's megabill.

General Motors and other U.S. companies give updates on how much President Trump’s tariffs are impacting them.

Shares of BitMine, where tech billionaire Peter Thiel is the top investor and whose chairman is Fundstrat's Tom Lee, advanced 5.3%. Other ether holding firms Bit Digital, BTCS and SharpLink Gaming climbed between 3.1% and 12.6%, respectively.