{
  "id": 10352968,
  "title": "Asia chip stocks slide as OpenAI pause revives AI slowdown fears",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/asia-chip-stocks-slide-as-openai-pause-revives-ai-slowdown-fears",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-28T03:19:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Investing.com",
    "slug": "investing-com",
    "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/asia-chip-stocks-slide-as-openai-pause-revives-ai-slowdown-fears-4919296"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Asian chip production companies experienced a decline on Monday due to renewed fears about the speed of artificial intelligence advancements, following OpenAI's decision to temporarily halt training, testing, and inference with tool use for its most advanced models to enhance safety measures. South Korea's SK Hynix experienced a 4.8% decrease, while Samsung Electronics saw a 4.6% drop, and Japan's Kioxia Holdings fell 2.3%. In China, Cambricon Technologies dropped 5.7%, Luxshare Precision lost 4.9%, SMIC declined 3.6%, and NAURA Technology experienced a 3.3% decrease. Semiconductor Manufacturing International and other AI-related hardware stocks also weakened. The selling spree followed a renewed discussion on whether safety concerns might slow down the development of increasingly capable AI models, potentially impacting the pace of investment in related sectors such as chips, servers, and data centers. OpenAI disclosed that its most recent training pause was a response to a security incident involving an internal research model and that its largest planned frontier reinforcement-learning project remains on hold while safety protocols are reviewed. The market-wide weakness extended across major Asian technology-focused markets, with South Korea's KOSPI losing 2.3%, China's CSI 300 declining 2%, and the Shanghai Composite falling 1.5%, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.7%. Japan's Nikkei 225 slipped by 0.1%. Taiwan's stock market was closed on Monday for the September 28 public holiday commemorating Confucius' birthday and Teachers' Day, so major Taiwanese chip manufacturers did not trade. The latest concerns join an ongoing debate about the sustainability of the extensive investment cycle behind AI. Earlier this month, executives from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI advocated for a more cautious approach to AI development, leading to a significant sell-off in chip stocks. Meanwhile, the long-term spending outlook remains uncertain, with Chinese technology firms continuing to expand domestic AI infrastructure, while Alibaba has announced plans for a substantially larger AI model and a new AI chip.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Dev.to",
        "title": "GPT-6 Astra shipped; OpenAI's chief scientist now asks for a slowdown",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/gpt-6-astra-shipped-openais-chief-scientist-now-asks-for-a-slowdown",
        "published": "2026-09-27T15:48:27.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}