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Dow slides 503 points as 10-year Treasury yield nears 5.356%, highest since April 2002
U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 503 points, the S&P 500 off 0.6% and the Nasdaq Composite lower by 0.7%. The 10-year Treasury yield rose more than 8 basis points to around 5.356%, the highest level since April 2002. Financial shares led declines, with Goldman Sachs down nearly 3% and Citigroup off more than 2%, while Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan each fell more than 1%. Higher oil prices and inflation worries also weighed on sentiment.
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Anthropic files for IPO, flags AI extinction risk as Reuters says it targets up to $100 billion raise
AI company Anthropic has filed for an IPO, with plans that could involve raising as much as $100 billion at a valuation of about $2 trillion, according to Reuters. In its prospectus materials, the company warns its AI technology could pose an existential risk to humanity and says about 6% of the computing power used for its AI research went to safety work during a sample week in July. The warnings and related calls to slow AI development helped rattle markets, with the Nasdaq 100 index losing more than $600 billion in market value on September 14 and 15.
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