US equity markets declined, with chipmakers under particular pressure after top executives in U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) companies raised safety concerns and called for a slowdown in the ‌development of AI – Dow eased -152-points or -0.29% after declining ~300-points earlier in the session.

Caterpillar Inc (down -4.22%) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc (-3.96%) booked the largest percentage declines in the 30-stock index.