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October 2, 2026

Thursday's Markets
S&P 500 7,666 (+0.19%)
Nasdaq 26,872 (+0.04%)
Dow 50,927 (+0.04%)
Bitcoin $84,646 (+1.31%)

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1. Nvidia Is Selling a Fix for Rogue AI Agents

Chart showing Nvidia’s revenue from 2021 to 2026, with the company earning $96 billion in the second quarter of fiscal 2027.

In July, rogue OpenAI agents hacked the open-source platform Hugging Face. Its agents also probed Securities and Exchange Commission and Commerce Department sites during training runs. Some faked email addresses to dodge limits on how often a user can visit.

Nvidia's (NASDAQ: NVDA) answer arrived Monday: It unveiled the Open Agent Safety Platform: access-rule software plus Sentry, a hardware watchdog. Sentry runs on Nvidia's BlueField chips, outside the agent it polices, and quarantines rogue bots in milliseconds. Over 100 organizations, including Anthropic, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), and JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), are collaborating on open-source agent safety.
OpenAI is doing something similar: CEO Sam Altman called it a welcome step but said it won't fully solve unpredictable agent behavior.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was already looking: It confirmed on Wednesday that it's investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and others over potential risks from their products. A day earlier, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), Meta (NASDAQ: META), and Nvidia executives signed a nonbinding White House accord on self-policing.

Keeping agents caged is starting to cost money. Nvidia sells the chips that train agents and the hardware that watches them. Its standard has to become the default before the FTC writes its own.

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2. Meta Is Building the Software It Used to Buy

Meta hired MongoDB's (NASDAQ: MDB) chief executive on Monday. CJ Desai had run the document-database company for less than a year. He now leads Meta Enterprise Platform, which will sell Meta's Muse agent, business agent, and coding tools to corporate customers. Those are the buyers MongoDB, ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), Salesforce, and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) spent decades locking in. All four sold off that morning.

These are all Motley Fool recommendations, Meta included. The rest sell into the same corporate software budget Meta is now going after.

The target list runs longer than four companies: TMF Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross called Meta's move another shot at HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS), Atlassian (NASDAQ: TEAM), and ServiceNow. He also expects rival labs to ship agents like Muse.
Small business is next: Meta followed on Tuesday with Muse for Small Business, which plugs into QuickBooks, Shopify (NASDAQ: SHOP), Slack, Canva, and Zoom (NASDAQ: ZM).

MongoDB's product didn't change on Monday. Its competitor list did. Desai left behind the same customers, revenue, and product edge the company had on Friday. The question is who else is selling to those customers a year from now.

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3. FICO Lost Its Monopoly; Cboe Extended Its Own

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are private companies chartered by Congress. They buy mortgages from the lenders who write them, standing behind about 70% of the market. For decades, they accepted exactly one credit score.

That changed on Tuesday: Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte said rival VantageScore will sit alongside FICO on a single pricing grid. Rocket Companies (NYSE:RKT) named VantageScore its preferred model for Rocket Mortgage. Shares of Fair Isaac (NYSE: FICO), the company behind the score, fell more than 25%.
No clear winner: Equifax (NYSE: EFX), TransUnion (NYSE:TRU), and Experian jointly own VantageScore. Their shares slipped in early trading, too.
Same asset, nowhere near housing: Cboe Global Markets (NYSEMKT: CBOE) also runs on an exclusive right someone else grants. On Tuesday, it extended its exclusive license to list S&P 500 Index options through 2051, with S&P Dow Jones Indices as counterparty. Losing those rights sits first on Cboe's risk factors. Shares rose 3.35%.

Neither moat is brand, switching costs, network effect, or cost advantage. It's permission. Fair Isaac's came from two buyers answering to a federal regulator, and the regulator changed the rules. Cboe's came from a commercial partner and runs past most holding periods.

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4. Five-Year Price Targets for Three Big Winners and One Loser

Each day this week, one of our investing teams put a five-year number on a recommendation.

Amazon: We recommended Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) in Stock Advisor in November 2022 at $94.85. The stock is up about 163%, beating the S&P 500 by over 55%. Team Rule Breakers predicts $450.10 in five years, against roughly $255 today.
MercadoLibre: Rule Breakers picked MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI), the Latin American commerce and payments company, in February 2009 at a split-adjusted $14.13. That recommendation is up more than 12,300%. Team Rule Breakers predicts $3,426, from about $1,730.
EMCOR Group: EMCOR (NYSE: EME) installs electrical, cooling, and plumbing systems inside data centers and factories. Its signed backlog hit a record $17.1 billion in the second quarter, up 44% from a year earlier. Team Hidden Gems predicts $1,523.33, roughly double today's $762.

One is requiring more patience.

IonQ: Team Rule Breakers and Team Hidden Gems have recommended IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) three times between them in the Quantum Leap real-money portfolio. The first came in October 2025 at $62.80, and it's down around 29%. The teams' predictions are $120.35 and $79.43, respectively, against about $45 today. Both see enough in quantum to take a modest position.

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