-- Tech stocks were higher Friday afternoon, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) up 0.3% and the State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) rising 1.6%.
The Philadelphia Semiconductor index climbed 2.3%.
In corporate news, CoreWeave (CRWV) shares jumped 12% after the AI cloud computing company struck a deal to support the development and deployment of Anthropic's Claude AI models.