Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang told an audience that artificial intelligence remains fully under human direction, pushing back against civilisational-risk arguments advanced by figures such as Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and questioned why anyone would actively promote a technology they genuinely believed posed an existential threat to humanity. In an interview given exclusively to one outlet, he stated that those who genuinely hold that view ought to cease their involvement in the work.
A broad pullback in technology shares unfolded across markets within a single day, as selling pressure built through the trading session. South Korea's KOSPI index shed 7.57% of its value during the session, with the losses steep enough to activate an automatic trading pause. Pre-dawn trading in Nasdaq futures pointed to a drop of around 1%, raising the prospect of further losses once Wall Street opens.
Shares in CoreWeave tumbled 15.46% across a single trading session before giving up a further 5.89% in after-hours activity, while Oracle's stock retreated 8.83% during the day and shed an additional 1.57% once markets closed. Losses spread through the semiconductor sector without exception.
TSMC's quarterly earnings cleared analyst expectations while the chipmaker set out plans to raise capital expenditure over the next two years, yet neither development proved enough to halt the wider retreat across markets. Apple's stock closed at a record level on the day, pushing the tech giant's overall market capitalisation beyond the $5 trillion mark — a valuation threshold that only Nvidia had previously reached.
Anthropic disclosed that its third-quarter revenue, while reaching $17 billion, came in below earlier projections, even as the company held an adjusted-basis profit position. Trading in the 10-year U.S. Treasury note pushed yields as high as 5.32% before they retreated to 5.08% — a range of movement that stands out for a government debt instrument not typically given to such volatility.
Futures tracking the S&P 500 slipped 0.24%, extending a retreat that had already taken the broader index 1.11% lower in the session before. Opening trade across the continent showed the Stoxx 600 slipping by 0.10%, while London's FTSE 100 moved in the opposite direction, posting a gain of 0.48%. Among the region's benchmark indices, South Korea's KOSPI shed 7.57 percent and Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 4.90 percent, while China's CSI 300 edged 1.23 percent lower and India's Nifty 50 bucked the trend by posting a 1.68 percent gain.
At the time of trading, a barrel of Brent crude carried a price tag of $106. Trading in Bitcoin brought the price down to the $81,265 mark.
Survey data gathered by ING economist Marieke Blom puts the share of Europeans who feel positive about what lies ahead at roughly three in four, or 76 percent. Populations in Denmark and Slovenia rank among those reporting the highest levels of contentment, while a survey of French respondents placed them at the lower end of optimism — yet nearly two-thirds still expressed a positive outlook toward what lies ahead. Separately, a three-and-a-half-decade review of Wall Street Journal coverage found that unfavourable stories tend to attract considerably more follow-on reporting than those framed around positive developments.
Polling data tracked by Goldman Sachs analysts James Moberly and Sven Jari Stehn puts the share of British people favouring a return to EU membership at 59 per cent, a figure Blom, writing on his blog, connected to a pattern he described as negative events commanding disproportionate public attention over the preceding three-and-a-half decades. Researchers put the cumulative drag on the UK economy from Brexit at around 6% of gross domestic product.
Avocado consumption in the United States remained at low levels through the years leading up to 1993. That year marked the point at which avocados grown in Mexico were first permitted to cross into certain states. Federal regulators opened a seasonal pathway for Hass avocados grown in Mexico to reach grocery shelves across 19 northeastern states, a shift that took effect partway through 1997.
Distributor access covering all 50 states took effect on February 1, 2007, based on information provided by Ron Campbell, who represents the Mexican Avocado Producers Alliance as a registered lobbyist. Measured in pounds consumed per person, appetite for avocados across the country has grown roughly sevenfold over roughly two and a half decades, climbing from about 424 million pounds in the 1998–99 season to approximately 3.25 billion pounds by 2024–25. On a per-person basis, annual avocado consumption now stands at 9.5 pounds, a figure that dwarfs the 1.52 pounds recorded in the 1998/99 period.
