Paramount Global stock soared more than 13% on Friday, making it the day’s best performer on the S&P 500. The stock surged followed a Reuters report that Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo Global in talks about a joint bid to purchase Paramount.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees not to “fight over disruptive issues or debate politics” at the office, a day after the company fired 28 workers who had protested against Googlescloud computing and AI services contract with Israel.

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Lululemon is in the process of closing down its distribution center in Washington and laying off 128 employees, according to a WARN filing submitted on Thursday to the state’s Employment Security Department.

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It was a bad day for artificial intelligence stocks on Friday. It started when Super Micro Computer saidit won’t pre-announce earnings and that it will report fiscal third-quarter results on April 30. ​​That spooked investors who worried the company’s earnings might not meet expectations.

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Trump Media & Technology Group is warning the Nasdaq of “potential market manipulation” related to the “naked” short-selling of its stock.

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A new report from Brown University’s “Costs of War” project sheds light on a renewed closeness between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley, with the Department of Defense and U.S. intelligence communities awarding contracts to major tech firms worth as much as a combined $53 billion between 2019 and 2022.

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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that it is increasing the amount of required rest time that air traffic controllers get between shifts, addressing growing concerns over controller fatigue.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounded Friday as Israel and Iran appeared to step back from the brink of a larger confrontation following Israeli airstrikes overnight. But the other major U.S. stock indexes were in the red Friday afternoon.

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In another scary plane incident during a year that has been full of them, a JetBlue Airways plane and a Southwest Airlines plane nearly ran into one another on the ground Thursday at Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport, NBC News reports.

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Nordstrom’s founding family is seriously considering going private (again) and it has formed a special committee to evaluate any bids.

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