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Bulls run wild as peace talks lift markets to record highs

Markets rose broadly across the globe this morning on news of more peace talks in the Middle East. Oil is at $95 per barrel, pretty much where it was yesterday. S&P 500 futures were flat this morning before the open in New York. The Index closed up 0.8% yesterday to hit a new record high at 7,023. Japan’s Nikkei 225 was up 2.38% and is also at a record high. South Korea’s KOSPI was up 2.21%. China’s CSI 300 rose 1.1%. In Europe the Stoxx 600 ticked up 0.11% and the U.K.’s FTSE 100 was flat in early trading.

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Anti-AI groups in the spotlight after the attack on Sam Altman

The firebombing and attempted murder of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has drawn attention to two anti-AI groups linked to the alleged arsonist: Pause AI and Stop AI. Both have condemned the violence and said the suspect is not a member of their organizations. But who are these groups, and what do they want? Fortune’s Sharon Goldman talked to Pause AI US leader Holly Elmore, the Berkeley-based activist with a PhD from Harvard. The group has “no reason to think that this person had much to do with us,” she said, he “didn’t get any further in onboarding or having any official role.”

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