The warning launched on Saturday by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, about the need to slow down the development of artificial intelligence to give time to security mechanisms caused divergent reactions. Elon Musk and Sam Altman publicly agreed with the request, but Donald Trump criticized what he considered to be negative forces speaking about the matter. This Monday, the reaction reached the stock exchanges of three continents, with generalized drops in the technology and semiconductor sectors.
In Asia, Tokyo closed with the Nikkei losing 0.86% to 63,492.99 points, the lowest value in the last six weeks, while the South Korean Kospi fell back 3.26%. SoftBank Group fell 10.7% after OpenAI, in which the Japanese fund has a stake of approximately 13%, postponed its stock market listing. In Europe, the Stoxx 600 fell back 0.15% and the sectoral technology index lost 2.17%. In the United States, the Nasdaq futures were down more than 1.50%, with Nvidia falling 2%, AMD 4.1%, Intel almost 5% and Oracle 2.7%.
Deutsche Bank analysts consider it unlikely that the AI investment cycle will slow down significantly, given the intense competitive race between companies and countries. From an alternative perspective, they point out that the debate may represent an attempt by executives to highlight the transformative power of technology, potentially changing the composition of AI investment more than its global scale.
Market tensions are further compounded by energy concerns, with Saudi Arabia shutting down a pipeline following attacks, pushing Brent prices up 2.6% to above 107 dollars per barrel. In the sovereign debt market, ten-year Treasury yields are approaching 5%, the highest since 2023, while German bonds exceeded 3.53%, the highest level since 2009.
