I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall.

It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand.

That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI.

Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries.

Here's your morning brief for Thursday, February 5th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal.

We're exclusively reporting that SpaceX is pushing for an early inclusion in a major index like the SMP 500 or NASDAQ 100.

Typically, companies have to wait several months to a year after going public to prove their

stability and liquidity to enter those indexes. This week, the NASDAQ shared proposals to

update how it lets companies into the NASDAQ 100, including one that would allow especially

large companies to join

within just 15 trading days. At their current valuation, SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic would all

qualify. Elon Musk's rocket and satellite business will make its stock market debut later this year.

In other market news, Danish shipping giant Mersk is cutting a thousand jobs

to slash costs as it forecasts a sharp drop in earnings. Chinese search engine, Baidu,

is getting into the buyback game for the first time to the tune of $5 billion. And Europe's

largest steelmaker, Arcelor Mattel, says EU efforts to protect the industry from Chinese competition should help

it capture market share in the coming years. Its stock is up today about 3%. And the Trump administration

is moving to strip civil service protections from 50,000 federal workers. The reclassification will make it

easier to fire career officials in senior positions, with the Office of

Personnel Management saying it aims to prevent officials from, quote, sabotage or trying to find ways to

thwart the objectives of the administration. 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.

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