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On Tuesday, the US stock market's financial sector plunged about 2% in a single day. Institutions such as JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Charles Schwab saw their largest declines in months. Insurer Allstate and travel booking platform Booking Holdings were also affected. Analysts pointed out that AI agents can automatically perform price comparisons and bill management, directly disrupting business models that rely on "consumer inertia."

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, with costs 40% lower than the previous generation; OpenAI released Sol and Luna, priced 50% lower than the previous series. The driving force behind these price reductions is the continued market share expansion of Chinese open-weight models. Additionally, Anthropic is using this opportunity to lay the groundwork for the largest tech IPO in history, while OpenAI aims to reverse its sluggish growth from earlier this year.

Overnight, U.S. stock Innodata surged 15% in a single day, directly triggered by a research report from Hunterbrook Capital. The report indicated that Meta's newly launched personal AI agent, Muse, is likely to achieve significant success, and Innodata is likely one of Meta's largest data service clients.

Joachim Nagel, a member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council and President of the German Bundesbank, said that if energy prices remain high, the European Central Bank may have to raise interest rates to levels that restrain economic growth.