On March 9th, major U.S. stock indices generally declined, with the Nasdaq, Dow Jones, and S&P 500 falling by 0.76%, 0.78%, and 0.66% respectively. Most of the seven major tech stocks declined, including Apple down 0.77% and Microsoft down 0.83%.

The three major U.S. stock indices generally declined before the market opened, with the Nasdaq down 0.23%, the Dow down 0.1%, and the S&P 500 down 0.15%. All seven major tech stocks also declined, with Apple down 0.34% and Microsoft down 0.26%.

PANews March 5 News, according to TechCrunch, X will upgrade its private messaging feature X Chat into a standalone app, claiming support for end-to-end encryption, with chats synchronized with the main X app and chat.x.com. The Android version will be released "soon"; the Apple TestFlight page indicates testing requires iOS/iPadOS 26 or higher.

PANews March 4 News, Apple (AAPL.O) announced the launch of MacBook Neo. The MacBook Neo laptop is equipped with the A18 Pro chip and lateral speaker system, with a starting price of $599. The MacBook Neo is now available for pre-order, and will be in offline stores on March 11.

The three major U.S. stock indices generally rose before the market opened, with the Nasdaq up 0.18%, the Dow up 0.04%, and the S&P 500 up 0.17%. The seven major tech stocks had mixed performances, with Apple and Microsoft slightly down, while Nvidia and Tesla saw significant gains.

Developer Manjeet Singh and Claude Opus have reverse-engineered Apple's private API to enable neural network training on the M4 chip's Apple Neural Engine. This project bypasses CoreML and directly calls private class functions, overcoming training capability limitations. Currently, single transformer layer training has been achieved with significant efficiency improvements, but it is still in the early stages, and support and features are yet to be refined.

PANews March 2 News, according to The Information, Apple has discussed with Google the deployment and operation of Siri-related servers within Google's data centers to meet the increased demand for cloud computing power in the new version of Siri, while complying with Apple's privacy standards. The report indicates that Apple is seeking external cloud infrastructure support to advance Siri upgrades.

The three major U.S. stock indices edged higher before the market open, with the Nasdaq up 0.05%, the Dow up 0.1%, and the S&P 500 up 0.09%. Among major tech stocks, Microsoft and Alphabet rose, while Apple declined slightly.

MetaMask and Mastercard launch the MetaMask Card in the United States, allowing users to spend their crypto assets directly. The card covers 49 states, enabling real-time on-chain asset payments, with users maintaining control of their private keys. This move marks a further integration of crypto payments into traditional payment systems, enhancing the convenience of everyday shopping.

The three major U.S. stock indices edged lower before the market open, with the Nasdaq down 0.01%, the Dow down 0.08%, and the S&P 500 down 0.07%. The seven major tech stocks generally declined, with Apple down 0.16%, Microsoft down 0.29%, and Nvidia down 1.34%.