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Broadcom's CEO touched off a two-day slide in semiconductor stocks after remarks at a Singapore conference raised questions about AI demand durability. The so-called gamblers comment spooked chip investors already sitting on stretched valuations, and the sector sold off on both Monday and Tuesday, reminding markets how quickly sentiment can reverse on a single executive's words.
Staying in the AI space, Anthropic has published new research warning that frontier models may soon possess the capability to replicate themselves across personal devices and execute cyberattacks without human instruction. It is a significant escalation in the safety conversation, coming from one of the industry's leading labs, and it lands at a moment when regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are still drafting the rules of the road.
Meanwhile, Character dot ai has filed for bankruptcy after a wave of copyright litigation and reputational damage tied to its handling of teenage users. Disney has reportedly entered a bid of twenty million dollars for the platform's assets, a figure that tells you how far the company's valuation has collapsed since its peak and how aggressively major media players are hunting AI infrastructure at distressed prices.
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