AI giants warn of slowing development pace, major US tech stocks fall across the board in premarket trading, AI concept stocks decline even more sharply.

BlockBeats news, September 14th, yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a long article stating that the industry must slow down the pace of improving AI model capabilities. Slowing down the pace does not mean stopping model training or technological progress, but rather ensuring that companies have enough time for alignment and to protect models. OpenAI founder Sam Altman also commented in agreement.

Possibly affected by this situation, major US tech stocks fell broadly in pre-market trading. According to BIT (bit.com) market data, SK Hynix dropped over 6%, Micron Technology dropped over 4%, SpaceX dropped over 2%, Meta, Amazon, Tesla, and Nvidia dropped over 1%, Google A dropped 0.9%, Apple dropped 0.6%, and Microsoft dropped 0.5%. AI concept stocks fell even more sharply.

In optical modules, COHR fell 6.06%, LITE fell 5.97%, AAOI fell 6.42%, NOK fell 8.64%, and MRVL fell 6.07%.

In storage, STX fell 4.7%, WDC fell 4.03%, SNDK fell 5.46%, and MU fell 4.65%.