A 20-minute trading halt in Seoul, Apple down 6% in New York, and a wobble under the AI trade that has carried Asian markets all year.

A securities filing shows Oracle’s headcount fell to 141,000 from 162,000 in a year. The company named its own AI as a factor while pouring billions into data centres.

Sensor Tower estimates OpenAI's chatbot became the fastest app ever to hit one billion monthly users, even as graduates jeer AI at commencements and rivals Claude and Meta AI grow several times faster.