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Yet more companies are being caught up in the so-called AI scare trade.

Logistics stocks plunged on Wall Street after a former karaoke company unveiled a new AI-powered platform for the freight industry.

The announcement from Algorithm triggered a sell-off that wiped 6.6% off the Russell 3000 trucking index.

Paul Dobson is our executive editor for Asia Markets.

He says it's the latest example of the mounting anxiety about how AI is disrupting different sectors.

Paul Dobson speaking there.

As Asian stocks followed US indexes lower and traditional safe haven assets, including gold and silver, also declined sharply on Thursday.

The news comes as Anthropic announced that it's completed a $30 billion funding round at a valuation of $380 billion.

Its technology has been at the heart of the recent AI-related sell-offs that have shaken global markets.

And in other news, Hungary's opposition leader, Peter Maia, says that he was secretly taped having sex and has accused the government of trying to blackmail him ahead of key elections.

Maia's teaser party has a wide lead in polls over the incumbent, Viktor Orban, who's been in power for 16 years.

After rumours of the sex tape appeared in the Hungarian media, the opposition leader said that he was the victim of blackmail.

And so that was Peter Meyer there speaking via a translator in an online video that the politician subtitled into English.

A spokesman for Orban's Fidesz party said in a Facebook post that Meyer's comments implied the politician had been misleading the public.

The alleged sex tape is the latest scandal in the country's election campaign ahead of the vote in April.

Those are some of our top stories for you this morning.

Looking at the markets.