A massive day for financial markets, here are the 8 stories you need to know ↓ 1. The S&P 500 hit a new all time high. 2. Paramount closed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. 3. The CFTC Chairman says the agency will "provide a federally regulated path for crypto." 4. BlackRock says AI agents could use Bitcoin for "long-term value preservation". 5. JPMorgan helped Solana develop a new system allowing financial institutions to settle trades onchain with instant settlement. 6. UAE funds are in talks to invest "as much as $10 billion" in OpenAI’s new $30 billion funding round at a $1.4 trillion valuation. 7. Elon Musk's SpaceX is now up over 58.8% from its August lows. 8. Google announced its latest AI image generation model, Nano Banana 2.1.