El magnate Elon Musk ha reconocido por primera vez que estudia la fusión de las dos empresas en las que participa: SpaceX y Tesla. Una integración que, de llegar a concretarse, crearía un gigante tecnológico con capitalización de 3,5 billones de dólares con intereses en la inteligencia artificial, la conectividad, el negocio aeroespacial y automoción que se colocaría entre las cinco empresas más valiosas del mundo.

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An accelerating sell-off of AI-linked shares has hit global markets, as fears over rising inflation and future interest rate hikes spooked traders already wary of the heavily indebted sector.

South Korea’s benchmark Kospi 200 index, which is heavily skewed towards the companies that make memory chips, fell more than 8% overnight to a six-month closing low, triggering circuit breakers that brought trading to a halt at various points.

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