OpenAI, Anthropic Call for AI Slowdown Amid Chip Selloff, Cybersecurity Stocks Surge

Artificial intelligence calls for slowdown amid rogue AI concerns. OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind CEOs urge industry to slow model capability gains, citing potential botnet risks. This led to a Nasdaq-100 futures tumble of 1.5% and S&P 500 futures loss of 0.6%. Meanwhile, cybersecurity stocks jumped as companies positioned to protect against increasingly capable AI systems rose 5.1% or more.