AI Slowdown Call Triggers Global Market Rout as UK MPs Sound Rights Alarm

Global tech stocks cratered Monday morning after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and SpaceX's Elon Musk jointly called for pausing frontier AI development — triggering the sharpest single-session sell-off in AI-linked equities since the sector's boom began. SoftBank, one of OpenAI's biggest backers, plunged 13% in Tokyo. South Korea's SK Hynix fell more than 5%, Samsung dropped nearly 4%, and chipmaker Kioxia tumbled 9.8%. Nasdaq 100 futures pointed to a 1.3%...