What's in store for the Middle East after Israel and Hamas swap prisoners and hostages?
Plus, three economists win the Nobel Prize for work on how innovation drives economic growth.
And is all that investment in artificial intelligence paying off?
What AI is really doing is through this massive amount of investment,
that investment itself is boosting gross domestic product, but that's not the promise.
Ultimately, you want to see AI boost growth by boosting productivity,
by making workers get more done.
It's Monday, October 13th.
I'm Alex O'Sulliv for The Wall Street Journal.
This is the PM edition of What's News,
the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
It was a momentous day in the Middle East as the first stage of the peace plan between Israel and Hamas went into effect.
The 20 remaining living hostages from Gaza had emotional reunions with their loved ones in Israel.
And Israel released the nearly 2,000 Palestinians it had agreed to free under the terms of the deal.
Large crowds greeted them as their buses arrived in the West Bank and the Gaza Strait.
In an address to Israel's legislature,
President Trump vowed to extend his peacemaking to the wider Middle East.
This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
Trump then flew to charm El Sheikh Egypt to meet with leaders from the Middle East and Europe involved in efforts to end the war and plans to rebuild the Gaza Strip.
There, President Trump and the leaders of Egypt, Turkey and Qatar,