Stock futures fell sharply Monday morning, led by tech stocks, after leading artificial intelligence CEOs called for a slowdown in the pace of developing the revolutionary technology.
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CEOs → fall → technology
In early Monday morning trading, Nasdaq 100 futures slid by 1.5%, while S&P 500 futures tumbled 0.8%.
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futures → slide → %
Leading those losses were shares of technology companies.
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shares → lead → companies
If the Nasdaq 100’s moves held through the remainder of the day’s trading session, it would be its worst day in about 6 weeks.
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it → hold → weeks
Nvidia, the world’s most valuable public company, fell 3%.
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Nvidia → fall → ?
Chipmakers Arm Holdings and Marvell slid 6%, as did cloud computing provider CoreWeave.
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CoreWeave → slide → ?
Intel and Hewlett Packard shares tumbled more than 5%.
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shares → tumble → ?
Corning, a key supplier for data center components, fell 7.5%.
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Corning → fall → components
Shares of Amazon, the leading cloud computing company, fell almost 2%.
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Microsoft shares fell almost 1% and Google parent Alphabet’s shares dropped about 0.8%.
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shares → fall → ?
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell only slightly, but Dow component Caterpillar, which is involved in the buildout of AI data centers, tumbled 3%.
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which → fall → centers
Further rattling markets, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune magazine on Saturday that his company would not be going public this year.
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company → rattle → Saturday
“Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public,” Altman said.
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Altman → give → safety
OpenAI and Anthropic’s eventual public offerings are expected to be among the largest of all time.
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offerings → expect → time
“For markets, the key question is whether this is the first sign that the extraordinary AI investment cycle might eventually moderate,” said Deutsche Bank global head of macro research, Jim Reid.
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“For now, that seems unlikely.
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that → seem → ?
The competitive race between companies and countries remains intense, and it’s difficult to imagine firms voluntarily stepping back while rivals continue to push ahead.”
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rivals → remain → companies
Overnight, worries about slowing the AI industry hit South Korea’s benchmark Kopsi index, which sharply fell more than 3%.
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which → slow → index
Samsung Electronics sold off by 5% and SK Hynix plunged more than 7.3%.
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Hynix → sell → %
In Tokyo, shares of OpenAI investor SoftBank Group fell 10.7%.
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shares → fall → Group
The dramatic market moves followed the intervention by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who wrote on Saturday that AI companies “must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.”
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we → follow → models
“Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain,” Amodei added.
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Amodei → seem → time
He said “like many technologies before it, AI brings risks, and because it is such a powerful technology, these risks are serious.”
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risks → say → risks
Amodei said the risks included “the risk of losing control of AI systems, misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and serious economic disruption.”
“I agree with Dario,” OpenAI X CEO Sam Altman said on X shortly after Amodei’s post.
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Altman → say → post
Elon Musk agreed with Altman, writing on X: “Dario is right.”
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Dario → agree → X
Shares of Musk’s SpaceX, which owns artificial intelligence developer xAI, fell 2% early Monday.
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which → own → xAI
Altman later added in another post: “When we talk about ‘pacing’, we do not mean ‘stopping’.”
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we → add → pacing
He said “progress has been rapid and will continue to be.”
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progress → say → ?
Amodei expanded on his thoughts on Sunday.
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Amodei → expand → Sunday
Speaking to CBS’ ‘Sunday Morning,’ he warned that there are “real dangers.”
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“I don’t think I fully just appreciated what it would actually be like when the progress was as fast as it was,” he said.
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he → think → what
It doesn’t mean we need to panic today.
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It doesn’t mean we need to shut it all down.
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But I would say it’s a warning sign.”
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China’s foreign ministry overnight dismissed the calls for a slowdown out of the U.S.
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ministry → dismiss → U.S.
A spokesperson said that “fear-mongering” would only “disrupt the process of global AI governance and serve no one’s interests.”
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mongering → say → interests
President Donald Trump sounded a similar tone over the weekend.
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“I think you have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up and they’re bringing up things that won’t happen,” Trump said on Sunday, referring to putting guardrails on the industry.
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Trump → think → industry
Still, selling in AI companies continued to spread through the European trading session, where Germany’s DAX index fell 0.6% and France’s CAC 40 index dropped 0.8%.
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index → continue → session
The biggest decliners across European markets were AI-related, such as Belgium’s ASML, a critical supplier to chipmakers, whose shares declined 9.5%.
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shares → relate → chipmakers
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