08:52 AM EDT, 03/18/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Technology stocks were gaining premarket Monday as the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) was up 0.2% and the SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) was 0.3% higher recently.

Apple ( AAPL ) is in talks to build Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone, Bloomberg News reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the situation. Alphabet was up more than 5% pre-bell.