Global news you need to know before the U.S. stock market opens on Thursday

In February, China's AI usage surpassed that of the United States for the first time, with four major models dominating the global top five.

German Chancellor Merz visited Yushu Technology, where he watched performances of robot boxing and dancing.

Lagarde: The European Central Bank is closely monitoring the impact of AI on the job market, and no wave of layoffs has been observed so far.

India relaxes regulations, allowing stock funds to allocate gold and silver, with a maximum holding ratio of 35%!

Japan's birth rate has declined for the tenth consecutive year, and the population crisis is worsening!

The supply of rare earths in the United States has further deteriorated! Some aerospace and chip production has been forced to limit output, with the price of yttrium skyrocketing 69 times in a year!

Last week, the number of first-time unemployment claims in the U.S. was 212,000, lower than expected.

Capacity crushes HBM by 10 times! SK Hynix partners with SanDisk to launch global standardization for HBF.

Baidu's revenue in the fourth quarter was 32.74 billion yuan, with AI computing power subscription revenue increasing by 143% year-on-year.

Nio's chip subsidiary secured over 2.2 billion yuan in its first round of financing, with a post-investment valuation of nearly 10 billion.

Tesla China makes a big move, launching a new promotion plan: Model 3/Y down payment starting at 79,900 yuan, multiple models can enjoy "7 years of ultra-low interest," and there is also an option for "5 years of 0 interest."

NVIDIA's "report card" fails to alleviate AI concerns, with all three major U.S. stock index futures collectively declining, storage stocks strengthening in pre-market trading, gold rising while silver and oil fell, and the offshore yuan briefly rising above 6.83.

The Nikkei 225 index closed up 0.3%, the Shanghai Composite Index closed down 0.01%, and the Hang Seng Index closed down 1.44%