ASX falls across the board as Wall Street slumps late

The Dirty Bird is not only jumping on global taste trends like pickles but is revamping its core chicken serves.

Broken Hill Gold has doubled its tenure by securing two historic goldfields near its White Dam project in SA that produced 48,400 gold ounces grading up to 23g/t.

Vodafone says Australians are keeping phones for longer. Handset prices of up to $5000 may have something to do with it.

Aureka is drilling its newly acquired and cash-producing Vic gold mine, chasing bonanza grades while building an integrated gold business around a strategic processing mill.

Lindian Resources says its Malawian rare earths project is unaffected by local export rules, with first production from its Kangankunde project on track for Q4 2026.

PLC Resources has wrapped up drilling at its WA Rochefort gold prospect, hitting a geological sweet spot of sheared, sulphide-bearing dolerites, with assays pending.

Forrestania Resources has bolstered its WA gold inventory, tabling a new 285,700-ounce resource for its Ladies project and lifting high-confidence ounces by 43 per cent.

Anthropic’s IPO prospectus reveals it lost $US42 billion last year and is dangerously reliant on two big customers and its own rivals as it plans the biggest sharemarket float in history.

Cheaper models and soaring fuel prices have supercharged Australia’s electric vehicle sales and triggered a decisive tipping point for the industry.

The US president shot down the idea of new regulations for AI, but signed an accord with top tech executives setting a “morally binding” set of voluntary safety commitments.

In the prospectus for its $US2 trillion sharemarket float, the company uses 80 pages to outline its AI models’ dangers, including unpredictable behaviours such as attempts to “resist shutdown” and “conceal or manipulate information.”

I’m far from the only one delaying treatment. Like my wisdom tooth, though, the cost of keeping dental care unaffordable will probably only grow.