Asia shares were trading mostly lower Friday, tracking sharp Wall Street losses on a sell-off of technology-related stocks that investors fear could lose out from artificial intelligence disruptions. U.S. futures were mostly unchanged.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.8% to 57,165.13 on Friday, after it passed the 58,000 mark for the first time early Thursday. SoftBank Group, which has a focus on AI, fell 6.8% even as the company reported a quarterly profit Thursday building on its investments in OpenAI, among other gains.
