Pre-market US Stock News Roundup: Musk Says Only Three Companies Have Enough Programming Training Data

2026-10-12 20:36 (UTC+8)

Odaily News: Ahead of the US stock market open, here are the key market and financial headlines investors should focus on:

1. The three major US stock index futures are mixed. Dow Jones Index futures rose 0.09%, S&P 500 Index futures rose 0.02%, and Nasdaq 100 Index futures fell 0.26%.

2. International oil prices rose across the board. WTI crude oil futures rose 1.78% to $93.483 per barrel; Brent crude oil futures rose 1.64% to $106.434 per barrel.

3. International spot gold and silver both declined. Spot gold fell 0.79% to $4,161.34 per ounce; spot silver fell 0.44% to $60.52 per ounce.

4. Europe's three major stock indices all rose. The UK's FTSE 100 rose 0.83%, France's CAC 40 rose 0.49%, and Germany's DAX 30 rose 0.82%.

5. Apple's Chief Operating Officer said the team has been advancing manufacturing development for its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, and is currently scaling up production in line with Apple's一贯 high quality standards.

6. Musk said that to build truly excellent AI, massive amounts of training data are needed, and programming must be conquered. Only three organizations have enough programming training data: OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX's Cursor, with Google勉强 also barely qualifying.

7. Tesla's second-generation Roadster is set to be unveiled on Thursday, with market rumors that the sports car will have hovering flight capability.

8. Broadcom's CEO said that AI computing demand will exceed supply over the next two years, but most companies are not seeing returns on their AI computing investments.

9. Cloud computing service provider IREN rose more than 4% in pre-market trading, with reports that the company has reached a multi-year cloud agreement with Anthropic.

10. Bernstein estimates that US electricity demand will increase by about 1,000 terawatt-hours between 2025 and 2030. Data centers are expected to account for more than half of the new load.

11. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics was announced: Stanford University economist Robert E. Hall and Columbia University economist Michael Woodford won the award for their research on the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stability.