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On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Shares of Taylor Morrison Home Corp. (TMHC) soared in premarket trading after Berkshire Hathaway said it will acquire the homebuilder in an all-cash deal worth about $6.8 billion. It marks the first major purchase under chief executive Greg Abel and a vote of confidence in the US housing market. - Shares of MGM Resorts International (MGM) rallied ahead of the US market open after the New York Times' DealBook reported that Barry Diller's People Inc. is preparing an offer to buy its unowned portion of the casino giant at an $18 billion valuation. - Shares of IBM (IBM) jumped in the early session after a video of President Trump praising the company's CEO and discussing the stock at a December event recirculated on social media over the weekend. In the clip, Trump says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna had "taken the stock from a rather low price to a very nice price."

Wall Street may be creating the first market for AI compute. Silicon Data CEO Carmen Li joins Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why AI futures could become as important as oil futures, how companies will hedge higher GPU costs, and why AI token prices are still rising despite more efficient models.

Meredith Whitney Advisory Group CEO Meredith Whitney says the economy is doing "well" amid the expansion of AI and rising inflation on "Bloomberg Open Interest."

French Ambassador for International Investments and President of C4 Industries Pascal Cagni joins Bloomberg's Matt Miller on "Bloomberg Brief" to discuss foreign investments in France as French President Emmanuel Macron announced 93 billion ($108 billion) investment pledges at the "Choose France" summit.

Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo, explains what people are getting wrong about the impact of AI on the US labor market.

The artificial-intelligence trade locked in fresh gains on Monday, allowing global equities to shrug off a rebound in oil prices as the US and Iran remained deadlocked over a peace deal. Ozan Tarman, Global Macro Vice Chair at Deutsche Bank joined Stephen Carroll and Lizzy Burden to discuss the the moves in stocks as where Bond yields go from here.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is buying Taylor Morrison Home Corp. in an all-cash deal worth about $6.8 billion. The offer of $72.50 per common share represents a 24% premium to the home builder's latest closing price on Friday and is the first major purchase under chief executive Greg Abel. Manuel Baigorri reports on Bloomberg Television.

MediaTek, Taiwan's foremost designer of chips for mobile devices, is hiring more engineers on expectations of revenue to multiple in 2027 from its developing AI data center business. Vince Hu, MediaTek, Corporate Senior Vice President, speaks with Bloomberg News' Stephen Engle at COMPUTEX 2026 in Taipei.

Ozan Tarman, global macro vice chair at Deutsche Bank, discusses the artificial intelligence trade and how the industry could impact jobs. He speaks on Bloomberg Television.

SoftBank plans to invest as much as 75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of artificial intelligence data center capacity in France, saying the country is poised to become a top European hub for AI infrastructure. SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris today to discuss the plan. Bloomberg's Peter Elstrom and Caroline Connan report.

Nvidia is entering the PC market with a new RTX Spark Superchip which will debut in laptop and desktop computers from leading PC brands including Dell and Lenovo this fall. CEO Jensen Huang made the announcement at the Computex trade show in Taipei. Bloomberg's Peter Elstrom reports.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon speaks at Computex, saying that in the future, AI agents will become a core element in the daily digital lives of users, and that mobile devices will be seen as access points for such agents.