Business and finance news from the Asia-Pacific.

It's been a mixed day in equities after two days of tech-led losses in the US that were fueled by concerns the artificial intelligence-driven rally had run ahead of itself. We speak to Charlotte Yang, Bloomberg's Asia Equities reporter.

Plus - Samsung Electronics Co. shares climbed 6.5% following a report that Anthropic PBC is in talks with the Korean company to manufacture a custom artificial intelligence chip. Bloomberg's Shery Ahn speaks to Bob O'Donnell, President and Chief Analyst at TECHnalysis Research.