Tech Markets Slide as AI-Slowdown Push Spooks Investors

TL;DR
Tech stocks worldwide fell after AI executives urged slowing frontier AI development; Nasdaq futures dropped about 1.5% as major AI and chipmakers including Nvidia, Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC retreated in premarket trading, with SoftBank down sharply in Japan. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a measured slowdown to reduce the risk of losing control over the technology.
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- Tech Stocks Shudder in Response to Calls to Slow A.I. Progress The New York Times
- Exclusive | Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears wsj.com
- We Must Pace the Frontier darioamodei.com
- Cybersecurity stocks get a jolt on gloomy AI warnings from CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI finance.yahoo.com
- China state newspaper blasts Anthropic's calls to slow AI as 'Cold War' tactic Reuters
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