U.S. stock index futures moved higher before the open, led by a 0.34% gain in Nasdaq 100 futures, while S&P 500 futures rose 0.16% and Dow futures added 0.06%. Crude oil gains faded quickly, with WTI up 0.24% at $82.324 a barrel and Brent up 0.09% at $87.800, after Pakistan commented on U.S.-Iran relations and said "the situation is moving in a peaceful direction." Spot precious metals weakened, with gold down 0.02% at $4,389.53 an ounce and silver down 1.31% at $64.86, while Europe's main equity benchmarks also edged higher. Corporate and technology developments were also in focus: Anthropic reached a $9.1 billion, 20-year computing power agreement with Bitcoin mining company Riot Platforms for 191 megawatts at its Texas site; Google said it would expand global network infrastructure in the Americas with the Alisios, Canoa and Olaluz submarine cable systems; and Mark Gurman said Apple still plans to release an all-glass flagship iPhone next year for the device's 20th anniversary. Investors were also tracking Intel's expanded $20 billion share sale at $95 per share, reportedly more than five times subscribed, Wall Street expectations that AI-driven storage chip price increases may cool even as shortages persist, and IBM's plan to deploy an Nvidia HGX B300 cluster on IBM Cloud for Together AI's open-source AI inference, with a launch expected in the first quarter of 2027.