At the open, U.S. stocks saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average fall 0.12%, the S&P 500 fall 0.16%, and the Nasdaq Composite fall 0.44%. AI chip stocks showed mixed performance, with Qualcomm (QCOM.O) rising nearly 6%, Intel (INTC.O) rising nearly 5%, and Nvidia (NVDA.O) falling 0.3%.