U.S. stocks opened higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.11%, the S&P 500 up 0.14%, and the Nasdaq Composite up 0.25%. Nvidia (NVDA.O) rose 1.8% on reports that the company is launching its open-source AI model, Nemotron 4. Storage stocks rallied, with SK Hynix (SKHY.O) up 2.4% and SanDisk (SNDK.O) up 1.7%.