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Here's your morning brief for Wednesday, February 25th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal.

Market sentiment has lifted this morning following President Trump's relatively uneventful State of the Union address.

Trump doubled down on his commitment to tariffs but didn't announce new policy and market reaction to the speech has been muted. U.S. futures are nudging higher this morning,

looking set to extend a tech-driven rebound that helped push stocks in Asia and Europe higher

earlier in the day. Later today, investors will be looking to Nvidia earnings and a raft of updates

from software stocks after the bell. Warner Brothers Discovery says yesterday's renewed takeover bid from

Paramount could well beat the best offer from Netflix. Paramount increased its share price offer for Warner

from $30 to $31 and threw in other new incentives.

Warner is now reviewing that offer and whether to go with Netflix to offer the chance to match it.

The streamer would then have four days to do so or increase their offer.

Paramount is scheduled to release its latest earnings results later today and Warner tomorrow.

And Anthropics says it will relax its core safety policy if a comparable or superior AI model is released by a competing AI lab.

The company isn't a fierce battle with the likes of OpenAI, XAI, and Google, but has in the past pause development work on its model

if the changes could be classified as dangerous.

And we have a lot more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast.

You can add it to your playlist on your smart speaker or listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Enterprises are already creating efficiencies with agentic AI,

particularly in areas like finance, HR, and IT, says Jason Gersadis, CEO of Deloitte US.

Those will continue to proliferate and strengthen,

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