Hi, I'm Joe Kernan, co-hosts of Swackbox, and this is Five Things to Know before today's opening bell.

Alphabet's driverless taxi company Waymo says service is back now in San Francisco following a pause on Saturday that took place during a blackout that hit that city.

Videos shared on social media

appeared to show multiple Waymo vehicles stalled in traffic and blocking some intersection.

Private equity firms including Permira and Warburg-Pinkus, reaching a deal to buy investment

software provider Clearwater Analytics for about $8.4 billion.

In the third installment of James Cameron's avatar franchise, disappointing at the U.S. box office

in its opening weekend, the film earned $88 million well below the $110 million to $125 million that analysts were expecting.

And tonight's Powerball jackpot slated to be one of the biggest ever.

No one matched all six numbers on Saturday,

so tonight's drawing worth about $1.6 billion.

And SoftBank is working to close a more than $22 billion funding commitment to Open AI by the end of the year.

Reuters reports that the Japanese conglomerate is raising cash via a number of avenues and could tap margin loans borrowed against its stake in chip design firm arm holdings.

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