Companies: Amazons cloud growth accelerates. Amazon Web Services reported third-quarter revenue growth of about twenty percent, its fastest pace in nearly three years, boosting overall quarterly results and sending the companys shares sharply higher after hours. The company announced plans for higher capital spending as it expands cloud and artificial intelligence capacity and noted growing demand for AI-powered services. Markets: Tech-led volatility hits indexes. United States stock markets fell as investors reacted to mixed corporate earnings and major technology firms plans for heavier AI investments, with Amazon shares rising after hours while other large technology names dragged indexes lower. Investors remained cautious ahead of additional earnings and upcoming statements from the central bank. Politics: United States funding stalemate persists. The partial federal shutdown continued to limit agency operations and discretionary programs, affecting law-enforcement travel and oversight work while Congress remained locked in disagreement over temporary funding measures. Innovation: Nvidia expands Blackwell deployments. Nvidia announced an agreement to deliver more than two hundred sixty thousand Blackwell artificial intelligence chips to the South Korean government and major corporations, aiming to strengthen the countrys AI infrastructure and industrial projects. The plan includes large allocations for government cloud initiatives and corporate data centers that will support manufacturing, automotive and semiconductor sectors.