Nikkei drops about 3% as chip and AI stocks slide ahead of US midterm results
Tokyo reopened after a holiday and tracked a 7.2% fall in the Philadelphia semiconductor index; the Nikkei stood at 61,205.38, down 2.97%, at 10:40 local time.
- Weta FX and Taiwan's TAICCA team up to build an AI screen-production hub
- AMD posts record $13.4bn quarter as data centre sales nearly double, and guides to about $17bn next quarter
- Nikkei: US tech giants' off-balance-sheet AI obligations nearly doubled in six months to about $3.2 trillion
- OpenAI hires Uber president Jill Hazelbaker as chief corporate affairs officer
- Traversal raises $120M at a $1bn valuation for its AI site reliability engineer
- Altman says people must not cede control of the future to superintelligence
- NBC exit poll: 57% of US midterm voters say AI will hurt society, 76% oppose a local data centre
- Binance says hackers used a fake job interview and its own internal AI tool to drain $6.3bn
- OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a working device in under a week and starts a vehicle-design project with Mazda
- Google will switch Gemini and Search off for K-12 student accounts until schools turn them on
- OpenAI staff warned leaders about lax internal security for years, Reuters reports