Stock market futures are pointing to a lower open after Israel carried out airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear program sites in a major escalation of tensions in the Middle East. The dollar has rallied, as investors rush back into the currency in their search for safe-haven assets,

Meta Platforms Inc. has finalized a multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI and recruited the startup’s chief executive officer to join its artificial intelligence efforts — an unusual deal that signals a heightened push by the social media giant to catch up on AI development.

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to scale up the company’s artificial-intelligence ambitions took their latest step forward with an investment in ScaleAI and the poaching of the the data-labeling AI startup’s founder.