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1. S&P 500 hits new highs, flight cancellations, the restaurant industry's value push and more in Morning Squawk

   Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

2. Softbank to buy data center firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion in AI push

   Japan's SoftBank on Monday said it has agreed to buy data center investment firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion.

3. China to crack down on AI chatbots around suicide, gambling

   The proposed rules come as Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot startups Minimax and Z.ai have this month filed for Hong Kong IPOs.

4. From data center spas to servers in space: How the energy crunch is reshaping cloud computing

   Data centre developers and designers are starting to get creative.

5. Europe is at a 'fork in the road' between AI competition and climate, fund managers say

   As power-hungry infrastructure scales and demand for electricity surges, friction between competition and climate goals becomes harder to ignore.

6. One year on from the UK's grand AI plan: Has its infrastructure buildout been a success?

   Hefty financial commitments from tech giants are positive signals, but big challenges remain for the U.K. to fulfil its ambitions.

7. New NASA boss Isaacman says U.S. will return to the moon within Trump's term

   New NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said that the U.S.'s return to the moon is key to unlocking the "orbital economy."

8. Nvidia-Groq deal is structured to keep 'fiction of competition alive,' analyst says

   Groq's description of its Nvidia deal as a "non-exclusive licensing agreement" mimics other recent big AI transactions orchestrated by U.S. tech giants.

9. Nvidia's Groq deal, S&P's winning week, leather tariffs and more in Morning Squawk

   Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

10. Oracle shares on pace for worst quarter since 2001 as new CEOs face concerns about AI build-out

    Investors want to know if Oracle, under new CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia, can pay for and deliver data centers packed with Nvidia chips for OpenAI.