NYSE issues a pre-market daily advisory direct from the trading floor.

NEW YORK, May 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today’s NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins. 

Ashley Mastronardi delivers the pre-market update on May 4th

• Stocks are down Monday morning after President Trump announced over the weekend that ‘Project Freedom’ would get underway in the Strait of Hormuz today.
• The Stocktwits Cashtag Awards will be in the spotlight at the NYSE this evening, honoring innovators in finance.
• The ETF CRTR Economy, which aims to drive awareness of the NYSE’s ETF issuers with the next generation of investors, will occur today.
• Mastercard (NYSE: MA) executive Ginger Siegel will join NYSE Live to set the scene for the company’s latest initiative to help small businesses across North America.

Opening Bell
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) celebrates its 25th consecutive year of dividend increases.

Closing Bell
J.P. Morgan Asset Management celebrates our leading active fixed income ETFs

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Artemis II astronauts at the NYSE on May 1st

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The newly formed company has been selected to serve as project manager for V.C. Summer nuclear project

COLUMBIA, S.C., and NEW YORK, May 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Brookfield, a leading global investment firm, and The Nuclear Company (“TNC”), a nuclear project development and delivery company, today announced a partnership to form a new company specializing in the development of Westinghouse nuclear reactor technology. The partnership’s ambition is to establish a world-leading nuclear project execution company.

Brookfield’s global asset management and energy infrastructure development capabilities combined with TNC’s nuclear project delivery expertise will serve as the foundation for the dedicated project development company. The business will offer execution capabilities for the deployment of nuclear projects based exclusively on Westinghouse reactor technology, including AP1000 and AP300, in addition to end-to-end project management, licensing support, and oversight of engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning activity. The parties expect to progress toward definitive documentation in the coming months, subject to customary approvals and conditions.

As part of efforts to potentially develop two partially constructed AP1000 units near Jenkinsville, S.C., Brookfield has selected the new company as the project manager for the Fairfield County, S.C., nuclear project, formally known as V.C. Summer Nuclear Units 2 and 3 (“the Project”). The project is one of the most execution-ready nuclear development opportunities in America. Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned utility company, supports the company’s role on the project.

The new company will support due diligence activity for the Project and oversee the delivery should it move forward to Final Investment Decision. Development of the project remains subject to further evaluation, regulatory approvals, and the execution of definitive agreements.

“This joint venture reflects Brookfield’s disciplined approach to large-scale infrastructure investment and focus on partnering with experienced operators,” said Wyatt Hartley, Managing Partner, Brookfield. “By combining our global infrastructure development capabilities with nuclear project delivery expertise, we believe this platform has the potential to accelerate the American nuclear resurgence, building on the momentum of the Westinghouse partnership with the U.S. Government.”

“Our team was built on the field of Vogtle and on some of the most complex energy projects in the world,” Joe Klecha, Chief Nuclear Officer of The Nuclear Company said. “We know what it takes to deliver nuclear. What’s been missing is a model that brings together the people, the capabilities, and the capital to do it at speed and scale. That’s what this partnership creates.”

About Brookfield

Brookfield is a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management that owns and operates real assets and essential service businesses that form the backbone of the global economy. We invest on behalf of both institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit—sectors critical to supporting economic growth and productivity.

With a heritage spanning more than a century and operations in over 30 countries, we deploy long-term, patient capital to build the foundational assets and businesses that power a more connected, resilient, and sustainable future—seeking to build long-term wealth for our clients while delivering strong risk-adjusted returns for our shareholders. Brookfield Corporation (ticker: BN), and Brookfield Asset Management (ticker: BAM), a leading global alternative asset manager, headquartered in New York, are both listed on the NYSE and TSX. 

For more information, please visit our website at www.brookfield.com.

About The Nuclear Company

The Nuclear Company pioneers the modernization of nuclear construction through its design-once, build-many approach, backed by its proprietary Nuclear Operating System (NOS), an AI-driven platform that transforms reactor construction for all technologies into a data-driven, predictable process. Founded by nuclear power and energy infrastructure veterans, including the team that brought Vogtle Units 3 and 4 online, TNC deploys nuclear power and services existing facilities to ensure long-term, American energy security.

Bitmine owns more than 4.29% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million

Bitmine is 86% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 10 months

Crypto Spring has commenced and like past cycles, investor sentiment and conviction are muted and bearish even as crypto prices strengthen

Ethereum continues to benefit from the dual tailwinds of Wall Street tokenizing on the blockchain and from agentic AI systems increasingly needing public and neutral blockchains

Bitmine uplisted to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) from the NYSE American effective as of April 9, 2026

Bitmine has 4,362,757 staked ETH, representing $10.2 billion at $2,336 per ETH

MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR and institutional investors, with a focus on security, performance, and resilience

Bitmine owns $83 million of Eightco (NASDAQ: ORBS), now one of the only publicly listed equities in the world to provide investors indirect exposure to OpenAI

Bitmine Crypto + Total Cash Holdings + “Moonshots” total $13.1 billion, including 5.18 million ETH tokens, total cash of $700 million, and other crypto holdings

Bitmine leads crypto treasury peers by both the velocity of raising crypto NAV per share and by the high trading liquidity of BMNR stock

Bitmine is the 173rd most traded stock in the US, trading $625 million per day (5-day avg)

Bitmine remains supported by a premier group of institutional investors including ARK’s Cathie Wood, MOZAYYX, Founders Fund, Bill Miller III, Pantera, Kraken, DCG, Galaxy Digital and personal investor Thomas “Tom” Lee to support Bitmine’s goal of acquiring 5% of ETH

NORWALK, Conn., May 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — (NYSE: BMNR) Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (“Bitmine” or the “Company”) a Bitcoin and Ethereum Network company with a focus on the accumulation of crypto for long term investment, today announced Bitmine crypto + total cash + “moonshots” holdings totaling $13.1 billion.

BMNR Weekly Update

The Company recently announced its uplisting to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) from the NYSE American on April 9, 2026. The Company’s common stock continues to trade under the symbol “BMNR”.

As of May 3, 2026 at 4:30pm ET, the Company’s crypto holdings are comprised of 5,180,131 ETH at $2,336 per ETH (Coinbase NASDAQ: COIN), 200 Bitcoin (BTC), $200 million stake in Beast Industries, $83 million stake in Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“moonshots”) and total cash of $700 million. Bitmine’s ETH holdings are 4.29% of the ETH supply (of 120.7 million ETH).

“The U.S. Senate released the CLARITY Act compromise text, and while it bans stablecoin yield on reserves, activity-based ‘rewards’ can be offered, in an attempt to balance the needs to protect existing depository institutions (aka traditional banks). This compromise is largely acceptable to us, and we hope to see this bill passed in 2026,” stated Thomas “Tom” Lee, Chairman of Bitmine. “The prediction markets (polymarket.com) now see >60% chance of passage in 2026, the highest probabilities in more than a month.”

“Crypto Spring, in our view, has commenced and like past cycles, investor sentiment and conviction are muted and bearish even as crypto prices strengthen. We believe the potential passage, or even failure, of the CLARITY Act confirms the arrival of crypto spring. As for the upcoming drivers of crypto gains, Ethereum continues to benefit from the dual tailwinds of Wall Street tokenizing on the blockchain and from agentic AI systems increasingly needing public and neutral blockchains,” said Lee.

“Ethereum remains the most widely used and reliable smart contract blockchains for tokenization and well suited for the upcoming rise of agentic commerce. And increasingly, we believe ETH will be viewed as both a store of value and a unit of exchange. This role for ETH has arguably been demonstrated by its outperformance since the Iran War commenced. ETH has outperformed the S&P 500 by 1,380 basis points since the war started and remains one of the top performing assets in the world (beside crude oil prices),” stated Lee.

“Bitmine has maintained the increased pace of ETH buys in each of the past four weeks, as our base case ETH is in the final stages of the ‘mini-crypto winter.’ In the past week, we acquired 101,745 ETH, continuing our aggressive accumulation strategy,” stated Lee.

Bitmine recently launched MAVAN (the Made in American VAlidator Network), the institutional grade staking platform. While MAVAN was originally developed to support Bitmine’s own Ethereum treasury, MAVAN intends to expand to serve institutional investors, custodians, and ecosystem partners seeking best-in-class staking infrastructure. A portion of Bitmine’s ETH is already staked on the MAVAN platform.

As of May 3, 2026, Bitmine total staked ETH stands at 4,362,757 ($10.2 billion at $2,336 per ETH). “Bitmine has staked more ETH than other entities in the world. At scale (when Bitmine’s ETH is fully staked by MAVAN and its staking partners), the projected ETH staking reward is $352 million annually (using 2.91% 7-day BMNR yield),” stated Lee.

“Annualized staking revenues are now $297 million. And this 4.4 million ETH is over 84% of the 5.18 million ETH held by Bitmine. Bitmine’s own staking operations generated a 7-day yield of 2.91% (annualized),” continued Lee.

Bitmine crypto holding reigns as the #1 Ethereum treasury and #2 global treasury, behind Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR), which reportedly owns 818,334 BTC valued at $64.2 billion. Bitmine remains the largest ETH treasury in the world. 

Bitmine is one of the most widely traded stocks in the US. According to data from Fundstrat, the stock has traded average daily dollar volume of $625 million (5-day average, as of May 1, 2026), ranking #173 in the US, behind Cheniere Energy (rank #172) and ahead of DoorDash (rank #174) among 5,704 US-listed stocks (statista.com and Fundstrat research).

The GENIUS Act and Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) Project Crypto are as transformational to financial services in 2025 as US action on August 15, 1971 ending Bretton Woods and the USD on the gold standard 54 years ago. This 1971 event was the catalyst for the modernization of Wall Street, creating the iconic Wall Street titans and financial and payment rails of today. These proved to be better investments than gold.

The Chairman’s message can be found here:
https://www.Bitminetech.io/chairmans-message

The Fiscal Full Year 2025 Earnings presentation and corporate presentation can be found here: https://Bitminetech.io/investor-relations/

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About Bitmine
Bitmine (NYSE: BMNR) is a Bitcoin miner with operations in the US. The company is deploying its excess capital to be the leading Ethereum Treasury company in the world, implementing an innovative digital asset strategy for institutional investors and public market participants. Guided by its philosophy of “the alchemy of 5%,” the Company is committed to ETH as its primary treasury reserve asset, leveraging native protocol-level activities including staking and decentralized finance mechanisms. The Company launched MAVAN (Made-in America VAlidator Network), a dedicated staking infrastructure for Bitmine assets, in 2026.

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Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that constitute “forward-looking statements.” The statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. This document specifically contains forward-looking statements regarding: (i) progress and achievement of the Company’s goals regarding ETH acquisition, including the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ initiative and the long-term value of Ethereum; (ii) the Company’s beliefs regarding Ethereum’s performance relative to other assets, including its characterization as a “wartime store of value” and its performance during geopolitical events; (iii) the Company’s expectations regarding the current state and future trajectory of the cryptocurrency market, including statements that ETH may be in the “final stages of the mini-crypto winter”; (iv) continued growth and advancement of the Company’s Ethereum treasury strategy and the applicable benefits to the Company; (v) the Company’s share repurchase program, including statements regarding shares trading below intrinsic value, the Company’s ability to accretively retire common shares, and the execution of repurchases through open market transactions; (vi) the Company’s digital asset accumulation strategy and staking operations, including MAVAN, its expansion to serve institutional investors, custodians, and ecosystem partners, and projected annual staking revenues and rewards; (vii) statements regarding the benefits of Wall Street tokenization on the blockchain and agentic AI systems utilizing public blockchains; (viii) expectations regarding the potential impact of regulatory developments, including the GENIUS Act and SEC Project Crypto, on financial services and digital assets; and (ix) the Company’s financial flexibility to support its treasury operations and expanded repurchase authorization. In evaluating these forward-looking statements, you should consider various factors, including: Bitmine’s ability to keep pace with new technology and changing market needs; Bitmine’s ability to finance its current business, Ethereum treasury operations, share repurchase program, and proposed future business; the competitive environment of Bitmine’s business; market conditions affecting the trading price of the Company’s common stock; regulatory developments affecting digital assets, including the ultimate enactment and implementation of pending legislation and SEC initiatives; geopolitical events and their impact on cryptocurrency markets; the volatility and unpredictability of digital asset prices; and the future value of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Actual future performance outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of which are beyond Bitmine’s control, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of Bitmine’s Form 10-K filed with the SEC on November 21, 2025, as well as all other SEC filings, as amended or updated from time to time. Copies of Bitmine’s filings with the SEC are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Bitmine undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release, except as required by law.

Polymarket: CLARITY Act signed into law in 2026?

ETHEREUM: Exiting winter, entering “Crypto-Spring”

IRAN: Crypto & Tech Outperformers since war

STAKING: BMNR now staking over 4.3 million ETH

ALCHEMY of 5%: BMNR ranked #173 by 5D avg daily $ volume

Collaboration brings HUMAIN ONE to global markets, enabling generative artificial intelligence-driven operating models for organizations worldwide.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities globally, today announced an expansion of its strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) through HUMAIN ONE, a new initiative to accelerate enterprise AI adoption globally. The first-of-its-kind generative AI enterprise operating system will redefine how organizations operate.

HUMAIN ONE, Powered by AWS, Will Be the Industry’s First Enterprise-Grade Operating System for Building, Deploying, and Governing Autonomous AI Agents at Scale

The collaboration will benefit from the upcoming launch of the AWS Region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Like all AWS Regions, the AWS Saudi Region will be a cluster of data centers, architected to meet the highest levels of availability, security, compliance and data protection, where organizations of all sizes can run cloud and generative AI workloads. With a sovereign-by-design approach, it will support sovereign generative AI deployments for regulated industries across the Kingdom.

HUMAIN ONE will also be available on AWS Marketplace globally, providing customers worldwide with seamless access to the operating system.

The collaboration brings together HUMAIN’s AI innovation with AWS’s global cloud infrastructure and advanced generative AI capabilities. Together, HUMAIN and AWS will enable enterprises and governments worldwide to transition from fragmented, application-based ecosystems to unified, generative AI-driven, agentic operating models.

Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN, said: “Enterprise AI has reached an inflection point where organizations are no longer looking for experimentation, but for measurable value at scale. That requires a fundamentally new operating system for how work gets done. Our partnership with AWS gives HUMAIN ONE the global reach needed to deliver on that promise. Together, we are enabling enterprises to move from pilots to fully scaled, production-grade generative AI where it is embedded into every application and workflow and drives real, tangible outcomes at a global scale.”

Tanuja Randery, Managing Director and Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at AWS, said: “The next generation of enterprise technology will be built through deep partnerships that bring together AI innovation and global cloud infrastructure. That is what our expanded collaboration with HUMAIN represents. Innovators like HUMAIN are shaping the future of AI development and deployment, and we’re proud to be partnering with them to put the most advanced generative artificial intelligence tools in the hands of builders and business leaders across the Middle East and beyond, helping them turn ambition into real enterprise outcomes.”

Built with enterprise-grade security, data sovereignty and regulatory compliance at its core, HUMAIN ONE on AWS enables organizations to adopt agentic generative AI across their organization without compromising governance or control. The generative AI operating system integrates development, data, orchestration, and governance into a single, cohesive system.

Core components include:

• HUMAIN Code – A development workspace for designing, building, and deploying generative AI products
• HUMAIN Guardian – A quality assurance engine ensuring performance, reliability, and continuous validation
• HUMAIN Eye – An automated security engine designed to detect, monitor, and mitigate risk across generative AI systems
• H2O Platform + SDK – A developer toolkit enabling the creation and orchestration of intelligent agents within HUMAIN Code
• HUMAIN Fabric – A scalable data infrastructure enabling ingestion, processing, and governance of data across the enterprise

Through AWS, HUMAIN ONE will leverage scalable compute, and advanced generative AI infrastructure, across 39 global Regions and 123 Availability Zones to support deployments across industries and geographies.

Leveraging AWS’s proven Marketplace, HUMAIN ONE will be available to enterprises worldwide, making it faster and easier for customers to deploy and integrate the operating system within their existing AWS environments.

Today’s announcement advances the strategic partnership between the two companies and the joint plan announced in May 2025 to invest more than $5 billion in AI infrastructure, AWS services, and AI training and talent development in Saudi Arabia. 

About HUMAIN

HUMAIN, a PIF company, is a global artificial intelligence company delivering full-stack AI capabilities across four core areas: next-generation data centers; hyper-performance infrastructure and cloud platforms; advanced AI models, including some of the world’s most advanced Arabic large language models developed in the Arab world; and transformative AI solutions that combine deep sector insight with real-world execution.

HUMAIN’s end-to-end model serves both public and private sector organizations, unlocking value across industries, driving digital transformation, and strengthening capabilities through human–AI collaboration. With a growing portfolio of sector-specific AI products and a core mission focused on intellectual property development and global talent leadership, HUMAIN is engineered for international competitiveness and technological excellence.

Forward-Looking Statement:

This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on current expectations and assumptions. Actual results may differ materially due to various risks and uncertainties. HUMAIN undertakes no obligation to update these statements.

CONTACT:

Hana Nemec, Head of Communications & PR
pr@humain.com 

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SOFTSWISS, a global technology company providing software for the iGaming industry, celebrates two years of collaboration with Rubens Barrichello, Non-Executive Director in Latin America.

SAO PAULO, May 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Over the past two years of collaboration with Rubens Barrichello, SOFTSWISS has significantly strengthened its presence in Brazil. In Q1 2026, compared to Q1 2025, the B2B tech provider grew total bets by 65% and GGR by 64%.

2 Years of Partnership: SOFTSWISS & Rubens Barrichello

The company has also scaled its local presence from a single representative to a dedicated team focused on business development, account management, and marketing. This expansion improves client service, ensuring timely assistance and project delivery across the region.

As one of Brazil’s most recognised racing figures, Barrichello plays a key role in bridging the company with the local market, supporting educational initiatives and engaging with partners. He has also represented SOFTSWISS at major industry events, including Futurecom 2025 and BiS SiGMA South America 2026.

“I am pleased with our productive partnership. In our third year, our focus is on continuing to build on what we have started. I look forward to helping the team engage partners through racing experiences – it’s a way to share something personal while building real connections,” commented Rubens Barrichello.

Following several rounds of strategic sessions with C-level management, the company has defined key business objectives for 2026. One of the priorities is inspired by Rubens Barrichello’s multidisciplinary experience – delivering solutions faster to accelerate product development and improve productivity across business functions.

Ivan Montik, Founder of SOFTSWISS, commented: “As a lifelong racing fan, I know that in business, just like on the track, milliseconds can define success. Speed and precision matter even more over long distances. This is exactly what Rubens inspires in our daily work. It is this mindset that has helped shape our position in the industry and will continue to drive us forward.”

This focus is already showing results. In just two months, the SOFTSWISS team launched a new B2B product. It enables iGaming operators to offer event-based wagering on real-world events via a fixed-odds model, meeting evolving audience demand while staying within their familiar business domain.

About SOFTSWISS

SOFTSWISS is an international technology company with over 15 years of experience in developing innovative solutions for the iGaming industry. SOFTSWISS provides comprehensive software for managing iGaming projects.